You don't expect a showdown between the two greatest quarterbacks of their era to be decided on a fluke play by a special-teams extra 鈥?who had no idea where the ball. But it was only fitting that a game chock-full of turnovers should turn one last time on a reel-worthy blooper. Remember that right about the time the drums start beating for Manning-Brady Bowl XV somewhere down the road, maybe all the way up to the AFC championship game.
We love rivalries. But unlike Ali-Frazier or Nicklaus-Palmer or Federer-Nadal, Manning and Brady are never within arm's length of each other on the playing surface,Cheap Jerseys From China, and unless you count the postgame handshakes, never will be. Yet the weeklong buildup to Patriots 34, Broncos 31 was packed with recaps of their past meetings, head-to-head comparisons of passing statistics and even touching anecdotes from teammates, coaches and front-office execs who knew both, especially about how the tough rivals gradually became friends, how each reached out to the other in tough times down through the years.