It’s telling that, even amid the hoopla of Super Bowl Week, nobody mentioned Bennie Fowler. The wide receiver, an undrafted free-agent in 2014, walked around the new-fangled Opening Night and was barely recognised. Gridiron was one of the guilty parties; his name didn’t come up once over the course of over 20 hours of interviews and podcasts. The Big …
In the aftermath of Super Bowl 50 it’s hard not to think back to the significance of events that took place two years ago in New York. It was there that Denver Broncos general manager John Elway, coming off a humbling Super Bowl drumming at the hands of the Seattle Seahawks, began to plot. His team had been the toast …
If Peyton Manning-Tom Brady XVII was the final meeting of the NFL’s legendary recent leading lights then Super Bowl 50 promises to be a changing of the guard. From lining up against his fellow near-40-year-old, Manning must now drag his ailing body onto the Santa Clara turf to face his antithesis in Cam Newton. Where Manning runs like a man …
