Carolina Panthers safety Roman Harper left in the second quarter of the NFC Championship Game on Sunday due to an eye injury and was followed on the next drive by Pro Bowl linebacker Thomas Davis.
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“I’m going to do everything in my power to make sure I’m ready to go”, said Davis. “I ain’t missing the Super Bowl, you better believe that”.
He wore a sling on the sideline later in the game but wasn’t wearing it afterward in the locker room.
Davis broke the bone late in the first half of Sunday’s NFC Championship Game against Arizona while making a tackle. While he’s certainly a tough guy, and I’m not a doctor, something tells me playing football two weeks after breaking your arm isn’t the smartest move.
Davis also finished second to Kuechly in tackles on the season with 105 along with a team-high four forced fumbles, 5.5 sacks, four interceptions and a fumble recovery. “For a guy to be at the Bears, get fired, and then have to lick his wounds and figure out a way to (rise up the coaching ranks again) – I think he’s overcome a lot of adversity”. Davis came back from three consecutive ACL tears in the same knee.
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Rivera and Broncos coach Gary Kubiak are the sixth and seventh men to appear in a Super Bowl as both a player and a head coach, and Rivera can become just the fourth person to win both games, according to a previous Sun-Times report. It hasn’t stopped him before. “You will have to take his jerseys away from him – all five of them, even the ones at home too – before he sits out this game”.
