The difference between the Panthers and the Broncos this season is striking

This season, the bad far outweighed the good, including 17 interceptions to only nine touchdown passes in the regular season, missing six games with injuries, getting relegated to backup duty in the National Football League for the first time, and vehemently denying a report linking his wife to banned human growth hormone.

It was just two years ago that the Broncs traveled to Super Bowl XLVIII in blustery New Jersey as a favorite over the upstart Seattle Seahawks.

A timeout foiled the 49ers’ plans to have Kaepernick run for a go-ahead touchdown on their final offensive series of Super Bowl XLVII. But Manning went back to the glove when the games started. Denver’s is just too good to be dominated for very long, producing a dynamic pass rush led by Von Miller and DeMarcus Ware, and with superb coverage backs.

Since the 2011 Super Bowl, the team with the higher valuation – which is based on its standing stadium deal during the season leading up to each Super Bowl – has won the game every other year, according to a MarketWatch analysis of Forbes’ historical team financial data.

Allen was ruled out of the NFC Championship game with a broken bone in his foot but has been doing everything possible to get himself ready to play in Super Bowl 50 including laser therapy.

Hageman said he gets old-school Panthers fans in his store, and insists that a person not buying Carolina merchandise before this season is actually a sign of sanity.

That’s the over-under for Super Bowl 50. “Sorry Peyton Manning, you’re going to have to go out with a loss!”

John Elway spent a lot of money on wide receivers over the last few seasons, and it has paid off big time. “That was one of the things that got me today”. I also don’t trust Manning’s limited arm strength against a ball hawking secondary.

If the Broncos can’t crack the century mark on the ground at the least, Carolina wins.

But as the past several Super Bowl winners have shown, defenses and franchise quarterbacks win championships, and the Eagles still can’t rely on either.

Nick: This will be a contrast with my head and heart.

An estimated 190 million Americans and a worldwide TV audience are set to tune in for a game that has the hallmarks of an instant classic as Carolina’s top-ranked offence clashes with Denver’s number one defence in a Silicon Valley showdown for the Vince Lombardi Trophy. I may not be able to it any more, but I will not lose it’.

Although Sports Anchor Chris Wilner thinks he’s wrong, he does stick with his childhood hero Peyton Manning who gave Chris some of the best memories as a kid while growing up in Indianapolis. “Absolutely. Even if our team sucks, I’ll still root for them”. “But from my doctors looking at the images, seeing where the break was and seeing that they could go in and fix it, they told me immediately, ‘Hey, we can fix this, and we can have surgery in the morning'”. I’m not the only one who is picking Carolina to win comfortably, and when everyone is on one side, the other side is usually the correct play. He’s not truly a gambling coach, more someone who lets his players do what they do best.

See, this Broncos team is spectacularly different than the one the Seahawks beat by upwards of 200 points probably in Super Bowl 48.