Occasionally during the dead points of this offseason, we’ll look back at some of the quirks, highlights, lowlights and follies from recent years. Today, we relive Tim Tebow’s most hilarious play.
The situation: Down 18 late in the fourth quarter of a Week 15 matchup with the New England Patriots in 2011, Tebow and the Broncos face a 4th-and-17 at the New England 37-yard line. It’s do or die.
The result: Well…
This is funny, mainly because it’s Tebow. And really, there wasn’t much more he could have done. He needed 17 yards and couldn’t throw it away, and the rush was on him immediately. In hindsight he probably wishes he ran immediately between the left tackle and left guard, but there was no way he was getting the first down there regardless.
Still, I love that by the time he was actually sacked, he was in a position which would have required him to complete a 45-yard pass in order to keep the drive alive.
But there’s a precedent: Tebow can also take solace in the fact a Hall of Fame quarterback once made the same mistake…in the first quarter of the Super Bowl…on a 3rd-and-9!
