Super Bowl 50 Preview American Football

The New England Patriots are the champions.

Hello and welcome to San Francisco, California, the City for the climax

Carolina Panthers against a Denver Broncos for

the Vince Lombardi Trophy in a game that has become one of the world's

On the first Sunday in February, America stops and watches football.

Pittsburgh Steelers have come champions a record six times,

The San Francisco Bay area hosts the Super Bowl this year.

A crowd of 75,000 will pack Levi's Stadium.

The rest of America will be watching their televisions.

140 million tuned in last year to see Tom Brady

and the New England Patriots beat the Seattle Seahawks.

Only on Thanksgiving day do they consume more.

It is a feast and a feast of football.

Pitting the champions of the AFC conference against the champions

of the NFC, that means Denver Broncos against Carolina

The Broncos have the veteran Peyton Manning,

In any year it would be a grand occasion but this is a special year

Over the next half hour these two will help you try to pick a winner

This man has been there, seen it, do it, got the rings to prove it.

Two Super Bowl rings with the New York Giants.

This man is a seven year NFL veteran at cornerback,

This is the first time in 31 years the Bay Area has held the Super Bowl

so I senT these to out to find out more about city.

When you think of San Francisco, you think of the golden gate bridge,

When the NFL comes to town, there is a lot more to see and do.

You can punt, pass, kick, test all your skills.

I was supposed to challenge Osi, but he's not here.

This is what it's all about, Super Bowl 50,

the Vince Lombardi Trophy, made at Tiffany 's in New York City.

We are here on radio row where all the news broadcasters are,

and what's crazy about this, you can get the great Joe Montana

This is my good friend, and he allowed me to have a locker

If you smelled, you would have been on the other side.

Give me some predictions, what are you thinking?

Trying to create a narrative where Peyton Manning walks off

into the sunset with his championship ring like John Elway...

I just can't see it, Caroline is so good.

One of the biggest media outlets of the week

We had a chance to talk to both quarterbacks and we asked them

to name their favourite Coldplay song.

One was a huge fan, named Clocks as their favourite song,

Will this affect who you root for on the big day?

Well, this changes things significantly.

It is definitely the Denver Panthers we are rooting for, OK?

We are now outside Levi's Stadium, you may have to take my word for it

as they have obscured most of it with a giant marquee.

For both of you, this is the first time you have experienced the whole

Super Bowl week, so how have you found it?

It's amazing, it's unbelievable what the NFL has done.

There are so many things to do, so many different experiences

I've never really done it until now, to have the access to do it.

Now I realise why it is such a great event.

You've been to a Super Bowl as a player, as a player

are you aware of what's going on around it?

Somewhat, but you are so focused and locked

I can't believe all the stuff that is going on over here,

I spent all my time focusing on playing the game when I could

Think of all the parties and gigs you could have been to.

Playboy parties, Rolling Stones, I could have been having the time

Instead I had to go out and play football.

It is unique from an American perspective, if you look at other

sports like baseball, hockey, basketball, they are all decided

This is the only American sport that has a one-off game in a neutral city

And that's why every game is so special.

Now no matter what these two teams have done,

This is the true definition of the NFL.

You could be 18-0 and lose the one game on that particular day.

That's what makes the NFL so special.

You are undermining Carolina by saying that,

Doing the gigs out in the Bay Area of San Francisco, we've had

When we actually get inside there, we'll have Bruno Mars,

the national anthem sung by Lady Gaga.

The fans are getting their money's worth.

Coldplay is great, I've seen them before, I love them.

People actually turn the volume up on their TV at half-time.

Coldplay, Beyonce, but my favourite is Lady Gaga.

I don't know at what point I'm meant to stop you.

I've got the whole thing going, Lady Gaga.

Moving back to half-time, I can't take you singing...

Half joking but Cam Newton said to Ron Rivera, Clocks is playing,

They will be trying to work out what is going on,

he might have his ear next to the door.

So disrespectful to the Denver Broncos.

One final thing on the NFL, three games in London,

they have chosen this week to say they will expand again

and the Raiders will be having a game in Mexico.

As you know, I'm an employee and to see the NFL kicks band

in the way it is, soon they will have

I can't wait for it all, to see the NFL expanding.

Wherever you go you will take Lady Gaga with you.

Let's move onto the football and not the very quickly.

Osi has chosen Denver to tell us the story of how they won

The Denver Broncos started the season in unimpressive form.

Defense contributing more than their offense.

Even the record-setting Peyton Manning was belittled

when the Kansas City Chiefs came to Mile High city.

Good afternoon and welcome to sports authority field in Mile High.

Kansas City comes in feeling pretty good.

They think they can come and take one.

They are picking everything they can find!

That is going to be the fourth interception.

Brock Osweiler, as Peyton Manning looks on.

This is the break the Broncos needed.

And the kick is good, tied at the buzzer!

I asked you to go out there and fight for 60 minutes,

Monday Night Football with a lot at stake.

Wide open in the end zone, touchdown!

Peyton Manning getting his first start in 63 days.

CJ to the end zone, touchdown, Denver!

They advance to the AFC Championship Game.

This could be the final chapter of Brady and Manning sharing

60 minutes of football, we are underway.

Caught in the end zone, Owen Daniels has wrestled his second

The third sack of the game by this Broncos defense.

Two-point conversion must for the Patriots.

Going to Super Bowl 50, as they are the America

Football Conference champions.

Keep an eye on Von Miller and CJ Anderson.

Check him out here, and you have never seen a guy with this kind

of speed coming off the edge as he beats the offensive lineman

and gets to the quarterback immediately.

Look at the explosion and he gets to the quarterback and baptises Tom

Right here you are going to see him use the exact same move coming

He's going to run right around again, swipe his hands away and get

This is a great move by Von Miller, look at the speed, he gets

One of the best athletes out there playing football.

Now we've got CJ Anderson who is also a great player.

Not really the fastest guy but he's very strong and has great vision.

Watch him against the Green Bay Packers, watched the cut he makes.

One move, watch the cut that he makes.

Right here you see it against New England Patriots,

And here he is going to do the exact same thing.

One read, one cut, boom, sticks his foot in the ground,

makes one guy miss, and gets all the way to the end zone.

CJ Anderson, great player for the Denver Broncos.

Right, that's enough from me, time for Jason to see how

the Carolina Panthers ended up as champions of the NFC.

Right from week one, the Carolina Panthers looked

Cam Newton's diving touchdown set the tone for what was merely

A game with a playoff-like feel to it.

Flips off the edge, gets there, Aaron Rodgers with the sack.

We have an opportunity to do something special,

What a catch, touchdown, Atlanta has the lead.

Looking to thrill, fumbled and recovered by Adrien

For the first time in franchise history the Carolina Panthers

into the playoff as the number one seed.

We created this, we put ourselves in this situation.

That is one of the plays of the game.

Carolina Panthers are heading to their fourth NFC Championship

Welcome to the most important game in the history of Bank of America

16 wins have brought the Carolina Panthers

Cam Newton is going to run, leaps from the end zone, touchdown.

There will be some Panthers silver at the Golden anniversary

of the Carolina Panthers, they are heading to Super Bowl 50.

The tight end is a quarterback's best friend.

On this play he's faking the run block and releasing upfield.

Look at him, great fake, great release, is open,

he can out run the New York Giants defender.

You know it hurts my heart but this is what he does well.

Upfield, fakes the defense and accelerates, perfect option

You can see the tight end Greg Olsen stretching the defense.

It's a significant, most tight ends don't have the speed to get

He's so big he can compete for the ball with smaller defenders.

Greg Olsen is the second is Luke Kuechly, Captain America.

As a linebacker he has great ability in Pascal fridge.

Watch him right here, carrying the center of the field

You don't see middle linebackers play the ball like that in the air.

Once again you see him open up vertically in this seam.

Play the receiver and attack the ball.

Once again, what he does really well is get a lot of return yards.

This guy is going to be very valuable in the game

and the quarterback needs to watch out for him because he's everywhere

and takes control in the middle of the field.

Super Bowl 50 takes place at the Levi's Stadium

home of the San Francisco 49ers.

It is in Santa Clara, the southern end of the Bay Area.

The entertainment will start in just a few hours.

Quite entertaining on Monday when Denver and Carolina played host

to the world's media including Jason and Osi.

Some people hate, some people love media day.

We've got media coverage from all around the world.

I've known this guy since he was 11 years old.

He always told me, you are not going to be great until you win

Tell us about the game plan, tell us what you guys

The way he plays, he runs the ball well, he's able to string plays out

to make those great plays, he orchestrates the defense.

You have to be able to slow him down, you can't stop him.

He's made a great transition to the NFL.

For me, I've always done things differently, played differently.

For an athletic quarterback coming out, that person who may have made

a mistake in their life, they can look at me and think,

Cam Newton did it, I can still have hope to do it.

One of these quarterbacks isn't built for this moment.

You've got a lot of time and film to watch how do you stay relaxed

and not get too caught up in everything going on?

If you look in the dictionary, though on the Internet,

type in football, it says "A game that is played".

When we were kids and they said, let's play a game, you would get

That's what I keep doing, having fun with it.

This team has guys with charisma, different characters from different

places, all over, we all pull in the same direction.

Talk to your people in London and explain to them

Pretty much I just assassinate quarterbacks.

One of my favourite all-time players and favourite all-time celebration.

Give us a glimpse of your celebration.

Hard to pull it out when it's not gametime.

You run through the quarterback and slice away.

As I said earlier, the Super Bowl was last played in the Bay Area 31

years ago, Super Bowl XIX, between San Francisco 49ers

Here are the memories of the 49ers running back,

My first Super Bowl I was so busy trying to win I didn't even realise

I was the first player to score three touchdowns in the Super Bowl.

You get so wrapped up in the game scoring is great but it's not

personal, it's for your team, the scoreboard, at the end

If you lose, scoring a touchdown doesn't mean anything.

When you win it's a great feeling that you contributed

It's Super Bowl week and every night is a party.

We are doing our best to bring you everyone.

We lost the last game against the Giants, it

I would much rather have been in London.

He has a sweater on, I might have a man crush on this.

I haven't even been to the playoffs, come on!

You can never have enough predictions.

Here is Jason with his former Giants team-mate.

Cam has an infectiousness, smile, energy, attitude,

Even when they are playing bad it takes over.

It's rare for a quarterback to do that on both sides of the ball.

They are not going to win this game, they are not going...

I did that all the way until the divisional

round of the playoffs, then they ran out in front

of the Carolina Panthers and scored 80 points in two post-season games.

They may win it by a couple of touchdowns.

When you analyse that is what it tells you.

NFL in particular, basketball, baseball, usually the best

Especially with a guy named Peyton Manning on the other side.

He plays without mistakes, they limit it to eight possessions

for the Panthers, 15 possession game for the Panthers.

Maybe they can win and keep it close.

After that Carolina scored the most points in the league.

There is a reason they scored 80 points in the post-season so far.

We've reached the point where we can talk about the game.

I see you judging me silently over there.

Let me tell you what the problem is, I've been an underdog before,

in a game where I was underdog twice.

I'm always going to pick the underdog because the underdog

And tomorrow is going to be one of those days.

As far as the American psyche is concerned.

Are Denver the underdog because of Peyton Manning?

America loves the all-American boy, whatever you call it,

Peyton Manning winning would be a fairy tale story,

Cam Newton winning would be the next ten years, yes?

Right now, the NFL, the kids, the fans love Cam Newton.

I see where he's coming from, being the underdog and all that

Peyton Manning has had an illustrious career

but it is Cam Newton's time and Carolina Panthers time.

Private jet after private jet is flying into San Francisco ahead

Why don't you think it is Cam Newton's time?

This is the MVP of the league, fantastic football player,

Everybody is underestimating the Denver Broncos' defense,

He's can have some skin, the coordinator, to contain Cam

Everybody thinks Carolina will come out there and run the ball

down their throat and destroy Denver Broncos.

This time of year you seen everything you can see

as a quarterback, there is not something they can throw

He's had two weeks to watch everything they've done.

They can throw Von Miller, DeMarcus Lawrence.

They are players the Denver players haven't seen.

I don't think you seem Cam Newton, I don't think he has watched

the same tape, Cam Newton can get out of all those situations.

Is there any way when people watch tomorrow, if they are with us

until the half-time show, and lots of people fall asleep

after, is there any way at that stage Carolina could be 20,

25 points up, as they have been against various sides this season?

Absolutely, they start fast, Denver isn't the type of team that

It can happen if Wade Phillips wants to sleep, if the Marquess

and Von Miller get injured, it's the only way they will be

I preferred you singing Lady Gaga van threateningly,

What's the difference when you are in your first

Super Bowl compared to your second or third, whatever it is?

First one absolutely, but we were so angry at Tom Brady,

at the New England Patriots, because of the disrespect

We went in with a different mentality.

The second one we were calm, I remember stretching,

looked up and said, oh my goodness, we're in the Super Bowl.

It hadn't hit me until that particular time.

The first one there was so much anger in us.

Interesting he says disrespect, both sides this week have claimed

Is it a thing football teams and players do in the build-up

You always want to feel like that and get motivated by another team

They were always use that as fuel for the fire.

Anything you've heard or seen this week to change your mind

Time for the talking to stop, we'd love for you to join us

If you miss everything and can't stay up for the Super Bowl,

you can see the normal highlights show in its usual slot

We hope to see you later for the Super Bowl.

It's a sporting show-stopper, all-American tradition 49

For its 50th, it'll be a West Coast extravaganza.

Those that can influence it are ready.

Dealing with the stress of sport at this level.

There are some that will rise to the moment.

There is nothing to do for those outside the bubble

of the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers.

Except to wish them all safe passage.

And watch the beautiful madness of America at full tilt in the crash

and the dash to the end of the race, to Super Bowl 50.

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