Thanks for the congrats. Being a Steelers fan it must really suck to do that.Divine intervention or running for his perverbial life (career), IDK. But he did what Elway told him to do, he pulled the trigger. And for whatever reason, the #1 defense in the NFL (per your definition) couldn't contain him. I'm hoping not to see a repeat of the last Broncos/Pats matchup, but I'm not feeling overconfident either.
It doesn't suck at all, especially knowing we didn't deserve to win the game in the first place. Even if we would have pulled it out today, I don't think the Steelers were advancing next week anyhow. This isn't the first time I've ate crow. GREAT thing is, is that I don't have to do it much often and I'll see a plethora of great times VS the bad times being a Steelers fan. The Steelers weren't the #1 defense "per my definition", they were literally ranked the #1 overall ranked defense in the league as well as the #1 ranked pass defense in the league. Tebow was the WORST QB in the playoffs by statistic, but yet, the results of this game turned out to be absolutley backwards. That's what you get in the NFL, anybody can beat anybody. The Steelers probably would of spanked Denver 99/100 times. This was Denver's night.
As far as the Steelers not containing Tebow, I couldn't disagree more. If ANYTHING, we did contain him. Tebow's entire game is wrapping him up in the running game. We did that well, we just weren't prepared, schematically, to defend the deep ball and it showed. If it was New England out there, there would of been a better game plan involved to stop the pass. Because of Tebow's horrific numbers, we simply ignored the passing game today (coaching) and it bit us pretty harshly.