Miracle man Tebow divides opinions

ON Monday morning Twitter spiked with 9,420 tweets per second about him.

Miracle man Tebow divides opinions
Sat, 14 Jan, 2012 - 00:00
Terry Reilly

YouTube’s search engines struggled to cope with the demand. Facebook was overloaded with pages giving homage and abuse in equal measures.

Tim Tebow, the American footballer who has split the opinions of a nation’s gridiron fans, just threw an 80-yard overtime touchdown to knock the Pittsburgh Steelers out of this year’s Super Bowl running.

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