Carolina roars to Super Bowl after blowing out Arizona 49-15

“For everyone who wears the blue and black, it has been a long time coming”, Newton said after another virtuoso performance Sunday with two touchdown passes and another two TD leaps – minus the Superman cape -in a 49-15 destruction of the Arizona Cardinals for the NFC championship. The Cardinals turned the ball over seven times. The last time a team scored as many in a conference title game was 1990: Buffalo 51, the Raiders 3 in the AFC.

Bettors couldn’t wait to get early action on the game at the Westgate Las Vegas Superbook, which posted a line as the third quarter of the Cardinals-Panthers game was winding down.

Nine-year-old Brody wanted to wish quarterback Carson Palmer and wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald good luck ahead of Sunday’s playoff game against the Carolina Panthers.

Criticized for being too conservative in the passing game in the overtime victory against Green Bay a week ago, Palmer let it fly from the outset.

Thomas, who said he knew something was wrong with his arm and that it hurt, was confident he would be suiting up for the Super Bowl when talking to reporters after the game.

Meanwhile, Arizona’s defense allowed several big plays.

GINNED UP: Ted Ginn Jr. spent a very unproductive 2014 with the Cardinals, who quickly released him after that season. On third down from his 14, Newton fired a dart to Philly Brown.

“Speed kills – and that is what he did today”, running back Jonathan Stewart said.

Aside from the upcoming draft in late April, where the Cardinals will have the 29th overall pick, free agency gets underway on March 15, and Arizona has a lot on its plate. A few things we won’t tolerate: personal attacks, obscenity, vulgarity, profanity (including expletives and letters followed by dashes), commercial promotion, impersonations, incoherence, proselytizing and SHOUTING.

“If you’re not putting a ring on your finger, if that confetti isn’t falling on your head, it’s a bad year”, Cardinals coach Bruce Arians said. “You will have to take his jerseys away from him – all five them, even the ones at home. – to before he sits out this game”.

“But we’re not about that”. “But we plan on winning”.