3:16 game

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The 3:16 game was a National Football League playoff game between the Denver Broncos and the Pittsburgh Steelers on January 8, 2012. The game took place in the 2011–12 NFL playoffs and finished with five statistics that each contained three digits in the order 3–1–6. It was the first playoff game to go to overtime since a 2010 overtime rule was codified stating both teams could possess the ball unless one scored a touchdown. The game also set a record for the shortest overtime in NFL history at the time; the Broncos scored a touchdown 11 seconds into overtime on their first play. When Tim Tebow played college football for the Florida Gators during the 2008 Florida Gators season, he began writing messages on his eye black (a practice the NCAA would ban in April 2010). At the conclusion of the season, Tebow played in the 2009 BCS National Championship Game and inscribed the biblical citation "John 3:16" on his eye black. Exactly three years to the day after that championship game, Tebow played...

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