Linebacker Von Miller earned Super Bowl MVP honors Sunday night, forcing two fumbles and getting 2 1/2 sacks to help the Denver Broncos beat the Carolina Panthers 24-10 for the championship.
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Under a cloudless sky, with temperatures hovering over 60 degrees, the Broncos walked onto the field at Levi Stadium on Saturday afternoon for a final brush-up before Super Bowl 50.
“Our charge was to redefine the Super Bowl and send it into a new era”, Bruce from the host committee said.
Coordinator Wade Phillips will be rightfully credited with devising a scheme that called for a lot of man coverage in the secondary, stuffing the run on first down and relying on his front four to get to Newton.
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“It’s awful”, one worker tweeted just before 10 p.m. “Treated like cattle after working so hard”. ‘I want to go kiss my wife and my kids. The Panthers led the league with 39 takeaways and were a plus-20 in turnovers.
Cam Newton struggled in his first Super Bowl appearance.
Earlier in the day, quite a few people got a head start on him in the auto park at the legendary tailgate party.
“No, no. We didn’t have any issues with the field”, he said.
Fans looking for last minute deals for tickets were not going to find them with the average price on resale site StubHub sitting at US$4577 (NZ$6,906) just hours before the opening kickoff. There were three turnovers, including this one-handed catch by Panthers’ defensive end Kony Ealy.
T.J. Ward slipped twice on the same play.
A late fourth quarter touchdown and 2-point conversion sealed Denver’s fate.
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Video from the California Wing of the Civil Air Patrol shows a military jet escorting a private plane out of the Super Bowl “No Fly Zone” during a practice drill February 3, 2016 in Central California.
