Tebow's Night Lands Him on the Sports Pages and the Business Pages

Tim Tebow breaks sports record and social media record in the same game

By all reports, last Sunday’s wild-card game between the Steelers and the Broncos ended in the quickest overtime in NFL history: 11 seconds.

“It was the first overtime game with the new rules instituted for the playoffs before the 2010 season that made it more likely to extend the game but had the quickest score in league history on a pass by the least accurate passer in the NFL this season against its best pass defense.” (the Bleacher Report blog)

Tim Tebow, the Bronco’s star QB, set records and threw a veritable forest of statistical anomalies in that game — Bleacher Report sums it up nicely:

“Sunday, Tebow had one of the strangest individual statistical games of all time, going just 10-of-21 (.476) but amassing 316 yards—over 15 yards per attempt and a record 31.6 per completion—and two touchdowns.

He was not sacked and ran 10 times for 50 yards and a score, giving him 366 yards on 31 plays (11.8 average) with three touchdowns and no turnovers.

Tim’s yards per completion wasn’t the only record he set that night — he set the record for the most-Tweeted about sports moment. Ever.

According to Twitter itself, Tim’s 9,420 tweets per second — yes, per second, that’s more than half a million tweets per minute — puts him at number two on the Events Getting the Most Tweets Per Second (“TPS” for short). The number one TPS event was the annual TV airing in Japan of the anime film “Castle in the Sky” in December — garnering a stunning 25,088 TPS.

As the NFL post-season begins its drive to the biggest sporting event of the year, it’s anyone’s guess if Tebow’s Twitter record will stand or fall.