Wait, the head coach is named Fox? I was totally misunderstanding that. I read that and thought that it meant that Fox, the network, was responsible for the sound systems during practice, or something. A player blaming a coach for something is leagues different from a player blaming a television network. Hand me that towel; I’ve got some yolk on my face.
Sorry, my fault, I should have made that clear in my post. I still think Wes Welker was being a whiner, but if he can pay his rent with excuses, hey, what the hell.
Jesus.
Spare us the florid garbage. Your Grantland Rice impression is fail. Manning was exposed as a coward and a quitter, as were the Broncos coaching staff.
And before you jump all over me, this was the biggest game of the year, the Super Bowl. Watching Manning and the Broncos act like absolute cowards and refuse to play their hardest until the final gun reminded me of the game between Manning’s Colts and the Buccaneers back in 2003. http://scores.espn.go.com/nfl/recap?gameId=231006027
But then Manning has always been a quitter. He quit and refused to try and go undefeated a few years ago with the Colts.
But back to the Super Bowl. Spare me the whole, “Well no team has ever come back from a deficit of blah, blah, blah” DON’T CARE. A winner, a true BEST QB EVER the QB you want in that one game where your life depends on it NEVER quits, not like Manning did, especially not in the Super Bpwl.
And spare me how there was too much pressure on the Broncos. During the run up to and after the game the talk on sports radio and among the pundits was that no matter the outcome this game wouldn’t change Manning’s legacy, hence no pressure on him. Here was the QB who had thrown for the most yards and TD’s in a single season and who was the starting QB for the most powerful bestest most points ever scored in a season offense. SO MANY WEAPONS!!!
And Manning QUIT. Like a baby when a board game isn’t going their way.
The Broncos quit.
You NEVER quit, not in the biggest game of the year, the one for the trophy and the money and the trip to DisneyWorld and the ring.
Manning is a quitter and a coward.
I can’t decide which is sillier, that post, or the fact it took over two weeks to get it.
When LarkingPot was a week late, did he quit? When he was a week and a half? Even when he was 11 days late, LarkingPot never quit, not until he finally got that whole post finished.
You don’t say?
And don’t get me started on Robert E. Lee.
Welcome to the SDMB. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Your theory is insightful, and almost complete. It simply neglects the fact that the Broncos were BEAT. Not quit, not lost, BEAT. By the best defense in recent NFL history. (Like, the last 30 years.)
I guess continued ineffective struggle against a fundamentally superior opponent is now the same as quitting. How the world changes…
So… what. Do people just google “Denver Seahawks bad Spring Valley Polytechnic”, hit up all the forums, join, and post - a month after the Super Bowl? Is that what the internet is affording us? Is this the miracle of technology that our forefathers envisioned?
Yep, it’s in the constitution.
Deal with reality. It was over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.
Germans?
Don’t stop me, I’m on a roll.
You are funny.
You are also wrong.
The best defense in recent NFL history, like the last 30 years is the 2000-2001 Ravens defense.
To wit, that Ravens defense allowed an average of 10.3 ppg, while the 2013-14 Seahawks allowed 14.4 ppg.
The Ravens didn’t allow an offensive td in their Super Bowl win while the Seahawks did.
But thanks for playing.
And yes continual ineffective struggle against a fundamentally superior opponent is quitting if it is the championship game. Except that isn’t what happened in Super Bowl XLVIII. Nice try on re-writing history though.:rolleyes::dubious: In the tow week run up to the game the Broncos were established both by the football pundits who actually know what they are talking about, and the football pundits who talk out of their buttholes and the collective mook brahs on sports talk radio who REALLY have no clue what they are on about and the citizenry at large, yes yes yes excluding the homerism of Seattle as the obvious favorite, so much so that the Vegas line moved much more than in recent years do the action being taken.
Seattle was handwaved away as being far too inexperienced, having no players who had played in HTE MOST IMPORTANT GAME OF THEIR ENTIRE LIVES!!!, while the Broncos roster while not chock full had a number of players in key positions namely starting qb as well as a head caoch who had previous experience with the SuperBowl and the week long orgy that precedes it.
This game was seen as Peyton’s coronation as HTE GREATEST QB EVER and it was a foregone conclusion that he would win the game.
The Broncos quit trying and everyone ignores that fact. Real men and real athletes play their hardest and give 100% EVERY PLAY to the final whistle.
I started hoping for a Seattle-Denver Super Bowl about halfway through the season, purely due to the long “rivalry” between the Seahawks and Broncos during all those years they were both in the AFC West… And if such a thing came to pass, and the Seahawks prevailed, I was looking forward to posting much RAH-RAH-RAH SEAHAWKS IN YO FACE nonsense to the Facebook pages of my baby sister (a big Manning fan) and two former coworkers, brothers who grew up in Denver and who were big Broncos fans.
Given the final outcome, I just … couldn’t. I considered how painful the game must have been to them, and I realized rubbing it in would have just made me a dick.
I’m a lifelong Seahawk fan living in Denver and being a dick never stopped me. I still work it into conversation whenever I can.
And bumping this thread after almost a year is your way of doing this to the Broncos fans on this board? 
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<evil laugh>
Actually now the Seattle’s actually playing football, I’m just priming the SD for the rematch in February 2015.