Panthers Coach Ron Rivera Remembers Mike Ditka’s Super Bowl Advice

Just this season, SI featured the Ravens on the cover predicting they would represent the AFC at Super Bowl 50, but their season was plagued by injuries as they fell to a disastrous 5-11 record.

The Denver Broncos look for their first Super Bowl title since the 1998 season. Oh, plus Kaepernick (36, 49ers), and is it too far-fetched to imagine a starting quarterback in Super Bowl XLVII playing well again?

Both Future, who namedropped Cam on the DS2 track “Rotation”, and Jeezy shared pre-game photos with the Panthers QB on Instagram. A dismal year that saw coach John Fox lose his job. Should I do more? So where did this lead? Oh, yeah, the 2011 National Football League draft, when they were the first two picks, in that order.

This all leads up to the SUPER BOWL preview, anchored by Tim Keown’s examination of why Cam Newton continues to be a lightning rod of controversy, as well as breakdowns of whether the Panthers or Broncos hold the competitive edge, from blitz schemes and passing when pressured to red zone success and players to watch. Those words hit me right in the chest. “All those things play a factor in being a championship football team”.

The players took Monday off to get their personal arrangements in line for the big game while Rivera took time out to meet with the media at Bank of America Stadium.

“We are who we are”, Rivera said.

TecmoBowl.org has been providing gamers with updated versions of Tecmo Super Bowl and other classic games for years, which included them doing their own simulation of the game as well.

Until then, building a Cam-proof plan is the focus. I think this is the flawless place for me. Now I’m dabbing on people every time I one up them… and I defend Cam to the bitter end.

I’m not really a Las Vegas big event kind of guy. It wasn’t looking good for us Panthers fans. This no nonsense coach has helped cultivate a team of young stars, tough veterans, fantastic coaching personal, and a winning way to Carolina. You will see a team that had its back against the wall but would not be denied success.

Transitive comparisons can mislead in the field of athletics, but on successive Sundays the Seahawks lost 31-24 on the road against Carolina while Arizona lost the NFC Championship Game on the same turf in a 49-15 rout.

Newton, who could become the third African-American quarterback to win a Super Bowl, unleashed two touchdown passes and ran for two more against the vaunted Cardinals defense, upping his total number of touchdowns between the regular and postseason to 50. From 2-14 to 15-1…

“We won as a team. We will continue to look at ways to do it in Charlotte because we have a week and half which we can hardly wait”.

SECONDARY CHANGES: Powers and safety Rashad Johnson are among the team’s 17 unrestricted free agents. “I didn’t have to get up and say anything”. On the cusp of the game’s 50th anniversary, how do we grapple with the fanfare and the current state of the NFL?