While the winning quarterback went to Disneyland, the loser was tossed in a dumpster. Cam Newton will find out how difficult it is to bounce back from a Super Bowl defeat, especially after he was trashed by critics for immature antics.
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In the end, and there is no doubt this should be the end of the road for Peyton Manning, one of the NFL’s all-time greatest quarterbacks rode shotgun. Manning was simply an old-timer who went along for the ride.
It happens this way often in sports, that great success by a team is created through unforgettable disaster, that amazing individual achievement is born from embarrassing failure.
It could be our inherent stubbornness, the part of us that continues to look through the eyes of the past and won’t allow ourselves to see what the present offers. Generations pass. The gap widens. Change occurs.
In a town that produced the National League’s Most Valuable Player (Bryce Harper) and Rookie of the Year (Kris Bryant) in Major League Baseball last season, Las Vegas also will feature a linebacker on the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers when Super Bowl 50 kicks off Sunday at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.
It’s this time of year when Mike Cofer is reminded of having twice kicked a football on the game’s biggest stage, and also that people can be (expletives) sometimes.
Lamar Hunt was creative, clever, a visionary, as forward a thinker as the NFL has known. I wonder what the late owner of the Kansas City Chiefs would have thought about the league housing a team in Las Vegas.
Roger Goodell has always owned a pretty loose definition of integrity when it comes to an NFL team ever moving to Las Vegas, on one hand standing behind the idea that his league should exhibit a blunt refusal to be compromised by sports gaming and on the other gladly accepting the massive levels of money and sponsorship and popularity it produces.
It’s often said the next-best thing to being at the Super Bowl is being in Las Vegas to watch the game. But that’s wrong. It’s better to be here.
Proposition bets on the Super Bowl, similar to the game itself, generate a lot of hype. It’s always entertaining to talk about props involving players in other sports, such as NBA stars Stephen Curry and LeBron James.
Josh Norman appears to be staking his claim to a seat at the table of the elite when it comes to climbing inside opposing heads, a lifetime from the days when trash talking was limited to claiming one’s team was better and guaranteeing a Super Bowl victory.
First things first: You know a Coldplay song. You probably know more than one. You just might not realize it. But when the British rock band that has sold more than 87 million albums worldwide takes the field at Levi’s Stadium on Sunday to perform, you will recognize the sound and lyrics.
The NFL talks a good game when it comes to its health and safety efforts, but statistics continue to favor the side that wonders how diligent the league has been in protecting those smashing into each other.
Nearly seven years after scoring the UFL’s first points and later making the field goal that would win Las Vegas its initial championship, Graham Gano will again try and earn a title. This one in Super Bowl 50.
With so many West Coast events to attend — Tournament of Roses Parade; NCAA national championship football game in Glendale, Ariz.; Super Bowl 50 in Santa Clara, Calif. — the world famous Clydesdales have become among Michael Gaughan’s most pampered guests.
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