{"id":4618,"date":"2014-02-03T03:15:57","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T03:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=4618"},"modified":"2014-02-03T03:15:57","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T03:15:57","slug":"hope-for-thrilling-game-goes-poof-on-first-snap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4618","title":{"rendered":"Hope for thrilling game goes ‘poof’ on first snap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Well, I watched most of the Super Bowl, managed to skip the halftime show because I don’t particularly like Bruno Mars or the Red Hot Chili Peppers.<\/p>\n

I had hoped for a thriller, thinking in advance the Seattle Seahawks’ defense would win the day over the high-powered Denver Broncos’ offense. I guess I was half right.<\/p>\n

Seattle’s defense was all that it was billed as being: tough, relentless, opportunistic, aggressive … what am I missing here?<\/p>\n

I didn’t expect the Seahawks’ offense to be so strong.<\/p>\n

Maybe the omen was delivered on the game’s first play from scrimmage, when the Denver center snapped the ball over Peyton Manning’s head, resulting in a safety for Seattle, and setting a record for the quickest score in Super Bowl history.<\/p>\n

So, you might be wondering: What does a shellacking like this do to Peyton Manning’s place as one of the greatest pro quarterbacks in history? Not a single thing, as the announcers Joe Buck and Troy Aikman (no slouch himself as a QB) pointed out.<\/p>\n

Manning will go down as a Top Five quarterback when his career is over.<\/p>\n

Agreed. Dan Marino’s failure to win a Super Bowl didn’t diminish his standing as an all-timer. Besides, Manning’s already won one of those Lombardi trophies, back when he played for the Indy Colts.<\/p>\n

The Super Bowl has produced a number of thrillers over the years. This one didn’t make the grade.<\/p>\n

Too bad. Hey, maybe next year?<\/p>\n\n

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Well, I watched most of the Super Bowl, managed to skip the halftime show because I don’t particularly like Bruno Mars or the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I had hoped for a thriller, thinking in advance the Seattle Seahawks’ defense would win the day over the high-powered Denver Broncos’ offense. I guess I was half … Continue reading Hope for thrilling game goes ‘poof’ on first snap<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1349,3583,4166,4468],"class_list":["post-4618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-denver-broncos","tag-peyton-manning","tag-seattle-seahawks","tag-super-bowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}