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In the strictest of football terms, Sunday night’s Super Bowl 50 wasn’t Peyton Manning’s finest hour.
He didn’t win the MVP trophy, as he did when he was the Indianapolis Colts’ quarterback in Super Bowl XLI. In fact, his first-half interception and second-half fumble made this 24-10 Denver win more uncertain that it might have been.
And the 39-year-old future Hall of Famer seemed to sense as much long before this game began, thanking his teammates the night before by saying, “For letting me be a part of the journey.” But he did a complete a two-point conversion that provided the final margin, and neither of his turnovers became a Carolina Panthers touchdown, which is really about all his job required.
Even losing coach Ron Rivera said afterward, a small but important compliment to Manning’s mind, if not his body, “We couldn’t turn them over.”