When the Broncos and Panthers take the field on Sunday for Super Bowl 50, two very different players will be leading the teams.
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This was a season unlike any that Manning has experienced. Even though he missed six regular season games due to injury, Manning was second in the league in interceptions with 17 to only nine touchdowns.
“He has plenty of time in the offseason to reminisce and look back”. Luckily one of the teams that has qualified has a quarterback with star power to spare. Instead, the Carolina Panthers and Denver Broncos will square off in Super Bowl 50.
And that’s just the beginning of Manning’s unique collection of accomplishments.
Newton isn’t the first Black QB to compete in a Super Bowl; Russell Wilson, Doug Williams, Colin Kaepernick, Donovan McNabb and Steve McNair have also competed for the Vince Lombardi Trophy. “It’s about winning games and being in the Super Bowl”.
Carolina enters Super Bowl 50 as a 5.5-point favorite over Denver. That ensures that when Manning retires, he will be thought of not just as a Colt, but as a Bronco.
More importantly, Osweiler granted Manning another chance to prove why he is a Hall of Famer.
“When we signed Peyton, (there was) a sense of urgency”, said outside linebacker Von Miller. The dual threat quarterbacks are on the rise and as Manning is leaving the game, Newton may be the one to carry the torch for the future of the position. “I don’t think it’s something the Panthers would want, and I know it’s nothing that me, as his teammate, would want. We had the luxury of doing that, and Peyton does now”.
“They really get after it”, he said. After all, it’s the most bet on sporting event, year in and year out.
Al Bello/Getty Images Eli Manning and Peyton Manning.
The sense of urgency that has existed since Manning arrived with “No Plan B”, as John Elway famously put it, increases exponentially Sunday.
Crisman is predicting a Carolina Panthers victory on Sunday, although he would prefer for the Denver Broncos to win, for the sake of their quarterback. “You get in the right system, you get around the right players – guys that want to just do their job, not try to do too much or go outside the scheme of what the defense is, and it allows you just to play”.
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Fast forward to the end of his first season as the head coach of a team that he played for and coached to great successes and he’s back in the Super Bowl.
