Palladino: Manning Family Has Authored A Different Kind Of Storybook
It is one thing for a family to become the stuff of football royalty. It's quite another to write a seemingly unending storybook.
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It is one thing for a family to become the stuff of football royalty. It's quite another to write a seemingly unending storybook.
What happens when you put Peyton Manning, Miss Universe, an orange-and-blue leprechaun and 200 TV cameras into the same room? Answer: Super Bowl Opening Night.
So why are we in such a hurry to retire Peyton Manning? Because he lost a little off his fastball?
Peyton Manning might be playing the final game of his NFL career and has the talent to win Super Bowl 50.
John Elway realizes as well as anyone just how difficult a decision it is for an elite quarterback to retire, and he has no plans of putting pressure on Peyton Manning to make up his mind right away.
Cam Newton may be the NFL's best player. But in Super Bowl 50, the Carolina Panthers defense will decide if he's on the best team.
If the Carolina Panthers had their way, maybe Peyton Manning would be playing for them -- not against them -- in the Super Bowl.
It's still a fairly warm and fuzzy time for Peyton Manning, as there is still some glow from last Sunday's AFC Championship game victory. But it could all change quickly on Feb. 7.
No matter how bad things ever got with the won-loss record or passing stats, Eli Manning was never a "sky-is-falling" type of guy.
The Broncos have reached the Super Bowl a record eight times, but their history is marked by spectacular failure and improbable triumph. Here's a look back at each of their seven previous games.
Al Jazeera reported last month that an intern at an Indianapolis anti-aging clinic was secretly recorded suggesting that Manning's wife received deliveries of HGH.
Cam Newton and Peyton Manning match up for Super Bowl 50. Is the NFL experiencing a changing of the guard at quarterback?
An early look at Super Bowl stories, including a potential passing of the torch, Denver's defensive strategy and a special Super Bowl for the Bowlen family
Nearly everyone, including yours truly, saw the AFC Championship game as a formality, a de facto audition for Tom Brady's next Super Bowl, his last argument for the front bust on Mt. Rushmore.
Denver's defense plays lights out against the Patriots and the offense comes up with just enough points to put the Broncos in the Super Bowl for the second time in three years.
Peyton Manning is the only five-time MVP in NFL history, one of the faces of the league and, at 39, the oldest starting quarterback to lead a team to the Super Bowl.
Peyton Manning is off and running. ... All the way to the Super Bowl. He has his defense to thank.
Denver is the healthiest its been all season as the team heads into the AFC Championship, while the Patriots list 16 players as questionable.
The AFC and NFC Championship games pit the top two seeds in each conference against each other. Who will win and advance?
They've been the best teams in their respective conferences all season, so it should surprise no one if the New England Patriots and Carolina Panthers meet in Super Bowl 50.
Tom Brady and Peyton Manning will face off yet again in the AFC championship game with a trip to the Super Bowl on the line.
New England quarterback Tom Brady enjoys his rivalry with Denver's QB, none other than Peyton Manning.
The Patriots could've had home-field advantage in the playoffs. But Bill Belichick, their legendary coach, got careless at the end of the season.
Even a healthy New England offense will be challenged to score against the Broncos.
Peyton Manning and Tom Brady will meet one last time with everything at stake, but for the former whatever happens on Sunday in Denver will have more meaning.
