He will face Broncos star - and future Hall of Famer - Peyton Manning in the Super Bowl. He has helped lead the Panthers to their first Super Bowl since 2003.

Coming off a dominating win over Arizona in the NFC championship game, Carolina enters the February 7 game in Santa Clara, California, as a favorite. His style of play on the field as drawn much criticism, even going as far as one fan wanting to ban Newton from Seattle's CenutryLink Field for grabbing a "12th Man" sign after the Panthers win over the Seahawks. "But people are going to judge and have their own opinion on certain things that I don't have control over nor does anybody else".

NFL Films captured the exchange between Peyton Manning and New England coach Bill Belichick after Denver's 20-18 win over the Patriots in the AFC Championship game Sunday.

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"There's no bragging rights", Eli said to Serby. It's Carolina first appearance in the big game since Jake Delhomme quarterbacked the team to the title game in 2004 and lost to the New England Patriots. He's kind of changed the game, and the no-huddle offense they had in Indianapolis for so long, and doing things at the line of scrimmage, and changing plays and getting out of bad plays and getting into good plays.

Peyton Manning said Thursday he welcomed a National Football League investigation into allegations linking him to human growth hormone, describing the report that triggered the probe as "garbage".

Denver general manager John Elway, who was the veteran quarterback under Kubiak's guidance when the Broncos won the Super Bowl in 1997 and 1998, knows better than most how effective the team's current head coach has been. We've got to come out and have our A-game. Peyton, his impact on the game of football will not be determined based off this one game.

However, Aikman, who won all three Super Bowls he played in, thinks Denver shouldn't be overlooked, especially with Manning making possibly the final start of his career.

Early in the season, Manning looked to be on his way out.

Think about it: Has this season, and all of these nail-biting victories, really been any different from Tebowmania? Her husband called her to let her know what happened, and she actually hung up the phone because she didn't believe him.

"It's probably going to be his last game".