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SAN JOSE, California — Broncos guard Evan Mathis stood quietly at the back of Peyton Manning’s media scrum at Super Bowl Opening Night, iPhone camera raised and pointed at his quarterback.
“I’m just checking out the circus,” said Mathis, who is the only player appearing in Super Bowl 50 next week to have played for the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers.
Monday night’s event at the SAP Center in San Jose, California, was indeed circus-like: a chaotic mix of the Super Bowl’s biggest stars being asked the same questions over and over, a lamé-clad cover band, and the fans who paid to watch the spectacle.