Morning. Do you know that the next football game is Aug. 3? We are wearing black today because of that. We can make it through this together. Believe.
From the “Talks too much” studios, Herman, leave no doubt.
Denver Broncos’ Peyton Manning walks off the field after the NFL Super Bowl XLVIII football game against the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014, in East Rutherford, N.J. The Seahawks won 43-8.Any questions
It was complete and thorough and overwhelming. From the start – that brutally foretelling safety on Denver’s first play when the snap sailed over Peyton Manning’s head – it was clear Seattle was the better team. The final score was 43-8 and it seemed worse than that as it was clear which team was better from front to back and, in terms of a dynamic defense built from the secondary forward, from back to front.
It was all Seattle, and the only question was whether this Super Bowl super beatdown would be historic or not. It wasn’t – Denver lost 55-10 to San Francisco many moons ago – but the layers and pieces of this drubbing were confusing only because they were so clear.
Is Manning the best ever? Forty-eight hours ago we would abide that, but now it’s hard to see because that argument seems dimmed. This game will be part of his legacy for sure. No it’s not the first chapter, but in his season for the ages the final verse was a disaster. Image reading a classic – a page-turner that is both extraordinarily well-written and amazingly entertaining – and you get to the final chapter, and the last page says…