Peyton Manning is once more on top of the world. The Denver Broncos quarterback 鈥� a future Hall of Famer in what may be his final season 鈥� is once more a Super Bowl champion. The Broncos have beaten the Carolina Panthers, 24-10.
The game fell well short of a quarterback duel, though. Again, it was the Denver defense that led the way, harassing Cam Newton, forcing turnover after turnover and even tacking on a score of their own.
It was sloppy, it was often ugly, but it was, without a doubt, the biggest game of the year. Naturally, we decided to cover it with the littlest poems we could think of: haiku.
With a hat tip to our colleagues at , where they've long been , we decided it was time for us to try our hand at the art form: a three-line poem, with five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five again in the third.
(And yes, haiku-purists, we know the poems are supposed to be about nature, too. But give us some leeway here.)
Think of it as a syllable-conscious live-blog. We tweeted our updates in haiku as the game went on, retweeting your contributions and doing it all using the hashtag #SuperBowlHaiku. You can find some highlights below and, if you want to see all the thousands of tweets 鈥� both from us and and readers 鈥� you can .
Now, you might be asking yourself why, exactly, we covered the big game with all these tiny poems. Good question. That's because 鈥� well, because this is NPR.
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Super Bowl 50:
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From start to end 鈥� in haiku.
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Peyton is blazing.
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Three completions and big gains.
Who said the guy's done?
There's a football game
— Lora Walburn (@mswalburn)
At the concert
Guess I'll have to wait
Silent Football Flick:
— Bob Mondello is working from home (@Bob_Mondello)
Buster Keaton's Three Ages
(Off topic, I know)
Three-and-outs just mean
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another layer of dip
dearly departed.
Touchdown, Broncos D!
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Von Miller strips the football,
and Cam looks human.
Wow, that's a face-mask.
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Broncos penalized for it.
Panthers on goal line.
Sitting in newsroom,
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silently counting fingers:
Now, THIS is football.
Mr. Anderson,
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those moves were 'Matrix'-worthy.
34-yard gain.
Halftime, and still down --
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Has 'Superman' Cam finally
found his kryptonite?
Coldplay, Beyonc茅,
— Sandra Glahn (@sandraglahn)
No one's wardrobe malfunctioned.
A beautiful day.
Remember, people:
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There's more football still to play.
Panthers get the ball.
Cam is still in game
— Nancy Schneider (@NancyWSchneider)
The play clock is ticking on
Those flags don't help much
So many mistakes:
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Fumbles, penalties, oh my!
But Panthers still close.
Interception, then --
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whoops! a fumble. But wait, wait:
still a turnover.
O, second chances!
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Thy face is the yellow flag.
First and ten, again.
I keep missing plays
— Kelly Sharp (@kelly_is_sharp)
Writing Super Bowl haikus
Wait what just happened
Oh, and by the way:
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No TDs for Denver's O.
All D and ST.
My son loved halftime
— Michael Goorsky (@MrGoorsky)
Knees movin' like these dance skills
Dude operating
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Tonight's Super Bowl scoreboard
Is probably like
Von Miller, once more,
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knocks the ball from Newton's hand.
First and goal, Denver.
The Broncos: TD.
— Anthony Di Paolo (@DiPaolo_016)
But the real story tonight,
Miller: MVP.
Viewers unprepared
— Wendy Youngblood (@wayoungblood)
Bronco defense takes command
Newton, country, dazed
Denver Broncos win,
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Peyton gets a second ring --
one question: his last?
Super Bowl Sunday.
— Laura Leighton (@LauraLeighton)
I can't stop writing haiku.
It's NPR's fault.
That鈥檚 it, that鈥檚 all, folks.
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Thanks for haikuing with us.
Next time, limericks?
