I'm trying something different now that the Broncos are in their second Super Bowl in three years. After the debacle in Super Bowl XLVIII, I figured there has to be a different way to chronicle Super Bowl week. Why not go with a daily blog of thoughts and random observations as the week goes on. I'll finish the week with a Super Bowl 50 preview and game prediction for Sunday, but in the lead up to the game, I'll document my thoughts each day as the hype for the game builds up. Here is the first entry..................
Sunday January 31st:
The Broncos and Panthers arrived in Santa Clara for Super Bowl 50 today. The Broncos seemed relaxed as they got off their plane and headed to their airport. In all of the pictures and video it seems like Peyton Manning is relaxed and really taking all of this in. There is a lot of talk about how this will most likely be Manning's last ever game. He hasn't talked about it publicly, but the word on the street is that it will be it for Manning after the Super Bowl. He seems like he is trying to soak it all in.
The Panthers arrived and the story was the outfit of Cam Newton. He was wearing some sort of zebra printed pants outfit, and it just draws more attention to him. He arrives at the Super Bowl on the heels of making comments about how he is an African-American QB and that scares people. Aren't we past the whole black quarterback thing? I mean Doug Williams won the Super Bowl MVP for the Redskins all the way back in 1988. I don't think it is an issue, but Newton is a lighting-rod and it will be interesting how he handles the media this week. Right now, the main focus of the Super Bowl is Cam and Peyton. We will see how that plays out the rest of the week.
The consensus at this point is that the Panthers are going to roll over the Broncos. The line started at 3.5 in favor of Carolina and it has risen to 6 in most sports books. Everyone seems to think that the Panthers and Cam Newton will be too much for Denver, and a lot of people are predicting a blowout win. I was at Home Depot with my youngest son this morning, and a guy on line next to me noticed we were wearing our Broncos gear, and he was telling me that he just hopes it is a close game because he fears that it will get ugly like it did two years ago when Seattle manhandled Denver 43-8 at Metlife Stadium. At this point, that is the feeling of everyone who follows the NFL. Everyone seems to think that the Panthers are going to win the game-it is a matter of how large the outcome gets. We'll see. I'm a lot more confident in the Broncos chances to win this game and not because I'm a Broncos fan. Perhaps the general public will begin to change their opinion as the week goes on, but make no mistake, the Broncos are being disregarded heavily at the beginning of this Super Bowl week.
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