INDIANAPOLIS – Super Bowl rings are not awarded to the stupid.

Although this NFL game saw more than 125 snaps, the Broncos’ 29-28 loss to Indianapolis can be summarized in three succinct words.

Dumb.

And dumber.

“We shot ourselves in the foot too many times,” Denver coach Sean Payton said Sunday, when his team somehow managed to snatch defeat out of a victory that was firmly in their grasp.

Yes, it would be easy to lay blame for this loss on a mindless penalty committed during a 60-yard field goal attempt that Indianapolis kicker Spencer Shrader had no hope of making as the final seconds of the fourth quarter expired.

But such a simplistic explanation, as Broncos offensive tackle Mike McGlinchey so curtly debunked, would be total B.S.

“One play doesn’t define a football game,” McGli

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