Eli wants Peyton to go out on top

“Hopefully we can get past those things”. “I’m very grateful for the opportunity to be going back to a Super Bowl, and I can certainly attest that winning is a lot better than losing”.

The Super Bowl attracts billions of dollars in gambling, with gamblers wagering on everything from which team will win the game to whether quarterback Peyton Manning will announce his retirement pre- or post-game to the number of towels Cam Newton will wear on his body during the game.

Anderson beat the Patriots in late November with a 48-yard touchdown run in overtime. They will land at San Jose International Airport on Sunday afternoon and stay in Santa Clara. He began spending more off-field time with his players, encouraged them to confide their gripes, and succeeded in getting them to talk about their problems.

With Newton leading the Panthers (15-1) this time around, many are convinced there will be no such drama.

“I feel that experience is often times overrated because of my own experience”, said Aikman, who 22 of 30 for 273 yards and four touchdown passes as the Most Valuable Player of Super Bowl 27 when the Dallas Cowboys routed the Buffalo Bills 52-17.

“He played great”, Elway said in the aftermath of that blowout.

He was cut by the Panthers midway through the 1998 season after Capers told reporters the quarterback walked into his office and told him he’d lost the desire to play.

The Colts became a mainstay in the playoffs, reaching the postseason 11 of the next 13 seasons under Manning and won the Super Bowl after the 2006 season. “I don’t know if he knows himself or he’s thought about it”. John Elway and Fran Tarkenton are next with three losses.

After that last landslide, Elway signed free agents DeMarcus Ware, T.J. Ward and Aqib Talib. It’s not just the lack of points, either, as only three clubs turned the ball over more than Denver this season.

Two years after taking the league’s No. 1 offense to the Super Bowl, the Broncos bring the NFL’s No. 1 defense, one that battered Tom Brady with an incredible 23 hits Sunday.

Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning looks on during an NFL football practice at the team’s headquarters Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016, in Englewood, Colo.

Head coach Gary Kubiak said he was in the dark about Manning’s career plans. And the ground game finally came on behind a new O-line in Kubiak’s zone blocking scheme.

“I don’t know if it is, but because of that possibility, I hope that he can win this game and if he decides to hang it up, go out on top”.

It seems like the 39-year-old quarterback should be celebrated as he gets ready to fade off into the National Football League sunset at the conclusion of the season, but the reality of what could happen on February 7 may turn his likely last shot at a second championship into a legitimate nightmare.