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Super Bowl 50 was an American football game to determine the champion of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2015 season.The American Football Conference (AFC) champion Denver Broncos defeated the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Carolina Panthers, 24–10.
Dawson was 1–0 in an AFL Championship game played before the NFL and AFL first met in the Super Bowl. Three pairs of quarterbacks faced off twice in the Super Bowl: Staubach and Bradshaw, Aikman and Kelly, and Brady and Eli Manning. In each case the same quarterback (Bradshaw, Aikman, and Manning) won both games. [22]
There are four NFL teams that have never appeared in a Super Bowl: the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Houston Texans, though both the Browns (1950, 1954, 1955, 1964) and Lions (1935, 1952, 1953, 1957) had won NFL Championship Games prior to the creation of the Super Bowl in the 1966 season.
His performance in Super Bowl 50 is widely regarded as one of the greatest individual defensive performances in Super Bowl history. [ 76 ] [ 77 ] [ 78 ] Miller was named to his fourth Pro Bowl, earned his second first-team All-Pro, and was ranked 15th by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2016 .
On February 7, 2016, Davis won his first Super Bowl championship after the Broncos defeated the Carolina Panthers by a score of 24–10 in Super Bowl 50. [54] Despite ending the Super Bowl with no receptions, [ 55 ] Davis made a key block downfield during a crucial 34-yard run by teammate C. J. Anderson , the longest rush of the game.
Harrison would help the Steelers reach the Super Bowl for the third time in six years. In Super Bowl XLV, Harrison recorded a sack on Aaron Rodgers, but lost 31–25 to the Green Bay Packers. [33] Harrison was ranked 21st by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2011. [34]
Some players avoid injury and maintain their high skill level. The following list has the top 250 players who have the most regular season game appearances. All have played at least a dozen seasons in the league. One player, George Blanda [3] played in 4 decades from the 1940s to the 1970s. Blanda played 26 seasons and was 48 years old when he ...
Since the 2011 season, the NFL has held the annual NFL Honors ceremony, which recognizes the winner of the Associated Press MVP award. [ 2 ] The first award described as a most valuable player award was the Joe F. Carr Trophy , presented by the NFL from 1938 to 1946 .