Will the Carolina Panthers take that final step in completing their path to a special season?
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Young’s point: The diminished Manning, 39, can no longer carry a team, but he will make sure to avoid mistakes that sink the Broncos in Super Bowl 50.
Nearing the end of his legendary career, Peyton Manning might have missed out on a golden chance in the golden anniversary Super Bowl if he would have listened to the family signal-caller.
Grant Halverson/Getty Images As if he needed to prove his toughness after enduring three ACL tears, Panthers’ Thomas Davis seems certain to play in Super Bowl despite recent placement of plate and 12 pins in his left arm.
If the Panthers need a goal-line score Sunday – perhaps with their first Lombardi Trophy on the line – Newton has the credentials.
Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning (18) before the game against the Baltimore Ravens at Sports Authority Field at Mile High. “Manning goes out a victor and rides off into the sunset”.
The Panthers were an ordinary team in 2014 that happened to win the NFC South title despite a 7-8-1 record.
Things like the size of the audience on television and the cost of the ads shouldn’t matter one bit to the players who are getting ready for the game. Here is a look at the Carolina Panthers injury report heading into Super Bowl 50. Guys like Joe Montana, just guys who have that championship mindset, I try to put myself in that environment, so I can learn from them and just do some of the things they used to do.
Hageman said he gets old-school Panthers fans in his store, and insists that a person not buying Carolina merchandise before this season is actually a sign of sanity.
“The Denver Broncos, and I will always support the Denver Broncos because I bleed orange and blue”, says Misty Hammer.
“The quarterback is not the sole reason that you win a championship”.
Vinnie Bullara, Westminster Christian: BRONCOS – “I haven’t thought too much about it, but I’m going with Peyton and the Broncos”.
“My advice for him a year ago was to retire”.
That blacklash includes, a Tennessee mom writing a letter to the Charlotte Observer, criticizing Newton’s sportsmanship and dancing on the field, a Packers fan who demanded the Panthers compensate him for a Green Bay Packers banner Cam Newton tore down at Bank of America stadium, a Seahawks fan who called Newton classless and created a petition to ban Newton from the Seawhawks’ home field, and others. Cam can scramble, pass, run like a fox and has been healthy all season. “He seems to get me out of a lot of situations and get me over that losing hump and maybe win a lot of football games”. That’s the best word I can think of.
J.C. Arceneaux, Church Point: PANTHERS – “It’s the Panthers in a blowout”.
I grew up an avid Oakland Raiders fan and, although I’m well past that fanatical stage, there’s something deeply troubling about trying to like John Elway and the Broncos. What they’re sayingWhat will football look like in 10 years?
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If the Eagles go in a different direction – lower-priced free agent, or trade, or draft pick – then you can push the Super Bowl timetable back at least another year. When they wore orange ones, they lost more; a lot more.
