"Tebow Time: The three 3:16 references, boffo TV ratings and Lady Gaga love
The NFL bans eye-black messagers. Tebow's numbers did the preaching on Sunday. (Lynn Sladky/AP)
You ever feel like there's too much Tim Tebow news? Neither do I. Here's a roundup of some of the most interesting Timbits from the aftermath of the Denver Broncos 29-23 overtime victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers.
• The fact that Tebow had 316 yards passing and averaged 31.6 yards per pass in the game didn't escape notice on Sunday night. Tebow wore "John 3:16" on his eye black in the 2009 BCS Championship game and has since become identified with the famous Bible message. The coincidental stats caused millions of fans to perform Google searches on the Bible passage in the past 24 hours. Here's one more unbelievable stat: John Ourand of Sports Business Journal reports that the final quarter-hour television rating for the Broncos-Steelers game was, you guessed it, 31.6.
(John 3:16 reads: "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.")
• Will Brinson of CBSSports.com has some more fun with Tebow numbers.
• Tebow earned $250,000 for the victory based on an incentive written into his contract. Since he took 70 percent of the team's snaps this season, he is entitled to a quarter-million dollars for every Broncos playoff victory.
[Related: Broncos given no choice but to embrace Tim Tebow]
• Twitter announced that 9,420 tweets per second were sent immediately after Tebow's overtime TD pass. That set a new sports record for the social media site.
I have said it before, God does care about Football, just not the way we usually do. If fact, He cares about anything that involves people because God gave His Only Son's (Jesus) Life as a ransom for our (all people) sins. Whats the catch? You have to receive this free gift by admitting you are a sinner and put your faith and trust in Him!
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ernie
Tim Tebow is the best thing football has produced in a lot of years. He is a good Christian man, and I respect him. He also wore, Phil 4:13 on his eye black.
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Joe Sambucci wrote; Good read Ernie; it was also noted today that big Ben threw his only interception of the game on third down and 16 yards to go for the first down...
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