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Percy Harvin knew he'd have to give everything he had if the Minnesota Vikings were going to get the best of his old college buddy, Tim Tebow.

The versatile wide receiver did that and more Sunday, but it wasn't enough to overcome Tebow's surging Denver Broncos.

Harvin caught eight passes for a career-high 156 yards and two touchdowns, but Christian Ponder turned the ball over three times in Minnesota's 35-32 loss.

Harvin scored on catches of 52 and 48 yards and rushed five times for 19 yards, but his career day provided little consolation after the Vikings (2-10) dropped their fourth consecutive game, extending the misery of a season that is shaping up as one of the worst in franchise history.

"We are still losing football games," Harvin said. "I'm not a big stats guy. Never have been, never will be."

Ponder set a Vikings rookie record with 381 yards passing, completing 29 of 47 passes with three TDs. But he lost a fumble in Broncos territory early in the game and threw two costly interceptions. To no one's surprise, Harvin was the target on Ponder's final throw of the game as he tried to move the Vikings down the field with the score tied 32-32 and about a minute to play.

But Andre Goodman intercepted the pass and returned it to the Vikings 15, setting up Matt Prater's field goal as time expired.

"It's hard to look veterans like Jared Allen in the eyes when I threw two picks and lost a fumble and cost you the game," Ponder said. "Three turnovers. You can't win a ballgame in the NFL when you do that."

Ponder put the ball on the money twice to Harvin to allow the speedy wide receiver to do what he does best: catch and run. Harvin's 48-yard, winding and weaving TD in the fourth quarter gave the Vikings a 29-21 lead with less than 10 minutes left. "He's a great player, great competitor and has no quit in him at all," Frazier said of Harvin. "He's going to fight right down to the end."

But Tebow did not let his fellow former Florida Gator outshine him. He hit Demaryius Thomas for 42 yards to set up a 24-yard TD run from Willis McGahee, then tied the score on a two-point conversion run.

"I was sure enough hoping we were going to get him," Harvin said. "But I've been on his teams. I've seen him pull out a lot of fourth quarters, a lot of last drives, a lot of two-point conversions. So I got a little worried once he got it."

Tebow and Thomas scorched the Vikings secondary. Tebow completed 10 of 15 passes for 202 yards. Thomas had four catches for 144 yards and two TDs.

"When you're out there and you're professional athletes, you have to find a way to do your job, and we did not find a way to do our job," Frazier said of his secondary.