Super Bowl gets 111.9 viewers, down from last year

But the latest Super Bowl champions – the Denver Broncos – have reminded us that the passing attack isn’t the only important component to building a victor in what is a passing-friendly league.

Fans began celebrating Sunday night as the clock ticked down on the Broncos’ win in Super Bowl 50.

Everyone’s expecting a send-off for Peyton Manning, and Miller’s Super Bowl co-stars Danny Trevathan and Malik Jackson are sure to draw high interest in free agency. It wasn’t so much that he couldn’t win the big one – he did that in 2007 with the Colts – it was that he didn’t win enough of them.

Thanks to Miller, GM John Elway earned a third Lombardi Trophy for team owner Pat Bowlen to go with the two he won as his quarterback in the 1990s. The postgame press conference didn’t bother me – it really didn’t – because I think the media has a certain level of self-importance, especially when it comes to the Super Bowl.

“This has been a very emotional week, an emotional night and it is just beginning”. “I have a couple of priorities first”. ‘So I asked Dick and Jeana, “Well, now that you’ve accomplished the pinnacle of your aspirations, what could you possibly do next?”

“At the end of the day when you invest so much time and sacrifice so much and things don’t go as planned, I think emotions take over”, Newton said. “I remember when I won it, it is always the time to just sit there”.

Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton on Tuesday defended his sulky post-Super Bowl press conference display, justifying his behavior on the grounds he was a “sore loser”.

“He’s 40 years old, he’s played so much more football than me”, Manning’s father told the Los Angeles Times.

“Unfortunately, we just didn’t win the big one”, the coach said. They will overdraft even more. We turned the ball over, gave up sacks, threw errant passes.

Adding that ring to his five MVP awards, Manning certainly can be satisfied and comfortable in retirement should Sunday’s 24-10 victory over the Carolina Panthers be his finale. Comparatively, Madden predicted Manning to complete 21 of 37 passes for 241 yards, two touchdowns, and an interception; in reality he went a pedestrian 13 of 23 for 141 yards and one interception.

“He (Miller) has just gotten better and better. He likes to get after Cam”.

Miller was the number two overall choice in the 2011 NFL draft out of Texas A&M, while Newton was taken first overall after winning a national college championship with Auburn.

One of the others is John Elway, who took a chance on Manning’s surgically repaired neck in 2012, boldly proclaiming at the time that there was no Plan B in case things didn’t work out. “This is a great league with or without me”.

He eventually sort of apologized, saying that he meant something else, but this attack signified the double standards facing Newton before, during and after the Super Bowl.