Meantime, Superman is bringing his cape and his pen to Super Bowl 50.
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He’s taking the Carolina Panthers with him.
The over/under on the game was settling in at 45 points in early betting. The initial line favored Carolina by 5 ½ points, and was quickly bet down to 4 points.
“My understanding is if everything goes well, it is most certainly something he’ll be able to play with”, Rivera said of Davis, a team captain.
It was equally shocking to see them almost let it all slip away by going scoreless in the second half and letting Seattle get within a failed late onside kick of coming back to tie the game. “So we are excited about that possibility”. “We respect them, but we felt we were a great team, too, and we came out and played great”. “We came out here and fought our tails off and we did what a lot of people said we couldn’t do”. It’s not over yet.
Thirty years ago this week, he tasted the glory of a Super Bowl championship wearing the helmet and the pads. Despite not being the physically gifted QB that he once was, Manning led the Denver Broncos over the New England Patriots in a 20-18 nail-biter in the Mile High City. And many of those miscues helped Carolina roll to a 24-7 halftime lead with an outcome that was shockingly never in doubt.
Both teams would miss field goals from beyond 50 yards early in the fourth quarter and Carolina would get one final touchdown on another Cam Newton touchdown pass – this time Philly Brown – after the Cardinals turned the ball over on downs. Showing why he will be the NFL MVP, Newton had 335 yards passing on only 19 completions, throwing for two touchdowns and running in two others.
The first was after the Cardinals had finally scored a touchdown – a one-yard touchdown run by David Johnson – to pull within 17-7, and then forced a Carolina punt, which was shanked short.
Palmer was inconsistent in earning his first career playoff win in last week’s overtime thriller against Green Bay in the divisional round.
Four times this season against teams with potent quarterbacks, the Panthers were dominant enough to build big leads but had to hang on at the end. Carson Palmer and the Cardinals had eight turnovers on the game and Luke Kueckly returned one interecption for a touchdown as the Panthers routed the Cardinals 49-15.
The Carolina Panthers regular season could not have unfolded any better for them. Over their last six games, the Panthers have now outscored their opponents 125-24 in the first half. The Broncos, who have won two Lombardi trophies, are making their eighth Super Bowl appearance.
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Ginn’s 32-yard punt return set up the Panthers at the Arizona 49.
