“I’m sure everyone can look at different plays throughout the game when it’s that close and say, ‘Man I wish I had made that play, ‘ ” Brady said. He is expected to be honored as the MVP for the first time – fans chanted those three letters during the NFC championship postgame ceremony – and he’ll be playing in his first Super Bowl.
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Today’s National Football League is all about the quarterbacks, so perhaps it’s fitting that the 50th Super Bowl features a matchup between Peyton Manning’s Denver Broncos and Cam Newton’s Carolina Panthers.
Super Bowl tickets are about 38% cheaper than they were a year ago, when tickets to see the Patriots and star quarterback Tom Brady play the Seattle Seahawks cost an average of $9,722.86. Cam Newton threw for two touchdowns and rushed for two more.
The Broncos (14-4) needed one last big play to secure their spot in the Super Bowl and they got it from the unlikeliest of places – safety Shiloh Keo, a free agent who joined the team last month, smothered the onside kick.
Manning, 39, became the oldest starting quarterback to lead a team to the Super Bowl – the fourth time he has reached the Super Sunday game.
Brady, who coming into this game had been playing some of the best football of his career and is one of the front-runners for the NFL Most Valuable Player award, was intercepted twice in the second quarter. The Broncos have Vernon Davis, along with coaches Gary Kubiak, Greg Knapp, Brian Pariani and Chris Beake.
In just less than two weeks, our long National nightmare will officially be over. Prior to that, the underdog had covered six of the previous seven Super Bowls, winning five of those in outright fashion.
“The first game was really going to decide our day since it was lopsided with overwhelming support for the Patriots”, Westgate sports book director Jay Kornegay said.
That is a reference to Manning, who is 1-2 in past Super Bowls. That being said, according to ESPN’s David Newton, Harper has no intention of letting the injury keep him out of the biggest game of the year.
“I want to win it every year”, he said. “The defensive line got vast pressure on Brady, and they were just all over him”.
Two months shy of 40, he’s also trying to supplant Elway as the oldest QB ever to win a Lombardi Trophy.
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With a chance to tie the game early, Gostkowski sent his extra point fluttering off to the right. But while Denver barely escaped with a win, Carolina was impressive in blowing out Arizona.
