THE SUPERBOWL

Seatle Seahawks  43: Denver Broncos 8

I am surely not an expert, nor a particular fan of American Football. 
But, the more you watch it and the more you get to understand it, the more interesting it becomes.
So, when I realized that the superbowl 2014 was to be shown 'live' on Austrian Television I decided to stay up and watch it. So from Midnight until 5AM today, Christin and I sat in front of our TV and watched a surprising game. 
I say 'surprising' since it showed something unexpected, without actually being very interesting.
When one of the most respected and reputedly very best Quarterbacks of the NFL , Peyten Manning, blows the very opening call, or, as the announcers and colour commentators called it,"has a misunderstanding with his team", resulting in a two point loss, and then cannot mount any meaningful attack for the rest of the game, you have to call it 'surprising'. 
From almost the very beginning I noticed Payten Manning walk around with his head down without any apparent enthusiasm, without spirit, almost as if in a trance.
Grant you, he and his Broncos were up against the most successful defensive line up in the NFL today.
This, however, does not account for passes thrown too far, hopelessly out of reach of his receivers, or too short, resulting in incompletion, or thrown to be intercepted. At least one of them being simply thrown almost into the hands of a Seattle defender who easily romps to a touch-down...
One of the colour commentators, who identified himself as a 'Bronco Fan' remarked that this is simply not the Peyten Manning, he has watched display his brilliance game after game throughout the season.
So, what is one to think: 
Was it Peyten Manning on a very very bad day? 
Was it somebody else, like Joe Bloe, who just looks like Peyten but has never played the game of American Football before in his life?
Is there a third possibility, too horrible to contemplate?
I am mentioning points 2 and 3 definitely with tongue in cheek, so that leaves only:
It was Peyten Manning on a very very bad day.
That's a thought, expressed sadly by

Bertstravels.