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[eyer]

Let's get this party started:

Peyton Manning is the only player on either of this year's Super Bowl teams to wear a NFL Champion's ring...

...while no player on the Seahawks has even made it to the Super Bowl before.

Manning is only the 3rd QB in history to make it to the Super Bowl with two different teams (Craig Morton and Kurt Warner being the others)...

...if the Broncos win, Manning will become the first QB in NFL history to win the Super Bowl starting for two different teams.

This is Peyton Manning's 3rd Super Bowl appearance in the last 8 seasons...

...he's 1-1 so far.

Besides being the very first time in NFL history that an offense ranked first in points and yards will face a defense leading the league in points and yards allowed...

...Super Bowl XLVIII also features the largest age gap between starting quarterbacks.

An aside, and a teaser for next season:

Peyton Manning currently stands tall on 495 career passing TDs...

...only 13 behind Brett Favre's record of 508.

 

[Sunshine]

Let's get this party started:

Peyton Manning is the only player on either of this year's Super Bowl teams to wear a NFL Champion's ring...

...while no player on the Seahawks has even made it to the Super Bowl before.

Manning is only the 3rd QB in history to make it to the Super Bowl with two different teams (Craig Morton and Kurt Warner being the others)...

...if the Broncos win, Manning will become the first QB in NFL history to win the Super Bowl starting for two different teams.

This is Peyton Manning's 3rd Super Bowl appearance in the last 8 seasons...

...he's 1-1 so far.

Besides being the very first time in NFL history that an offense ranked first in points and yards will face a defense leading the league in points and yards allowed...

...Super Bowl XLVIII also features the largest age gap between starting quarterbacks.

An aside, and a teaser for next season:

Peyton Manning currently stands tall on 495 career passing TDs...

...only 13 behind Brett Favre's record of 508.

I can't figure out whether you're a minister / priest, a conservative talk radio show host ( like Michael Graham) or a sportscaster.

 

[pete]

Let's get this party started:

Peyton Manning is the only player on either of this year's Super Bowl teams to wear a NFL Champion's ring...

...while no player on the Seahawks has even made it to the Super Bowl before.

Manning is only the 3rd QB in history to make it to the Super Bowl with two different teams (Craig Morton and Kurt Warner being the others)...

...if the Broncos win, Manning will become the first QB in NFL history to win the Super Bowl starting for two different teams.

This is Peyton Manning's 3rd Super Bowl appearance in the last 8 seasons...

...he's 1-1 so far.

Besides being the very first time in NFL history that an offense ranked first in points and yards will face a defense leading the league in points and yards allowed...

...Super Bowl XLVIII also features the largest age gap between starting quarterbacks.

An aside, and a teaser for next season:

Peyton Manning currently stands tall on 495 career passing TDs...

...only 13 behind Brett Favre's record of 508.

this is why i don't have many guy friends

 

[Sunshine]

this is why i don't have many guy friends

And I was unaware there was a patriots game Sunday

 

[pete]

watching a little football can be fun, but obsessing over statistics is beyond me.

and i don't even begin to understand the appeal of fantasy sports leagues

 

[Sunshine]

watching a little football can be fun, but obsessing over statistics is beyond me.

and i don't even begin to understand the appeal of fantasy sports leagues

I can't watch it for 10 minutes. Too violent.

 

[eyer]

this is why i don't have many guy friends

But it is most likely why you make such a great girlfriend, fluffy.

 

[Tryharder62]

Who has the cutest uniforms? (Just kidding!)

 

[pete]

But it is most likely why you make such a great girlfriend, fluffy.

intelligent input, darling.
why don't you just have another beer, then?

 

[eyer]

When Peyton Manning was signed by the Broncos, a reporter asked John Elway what he thought Denver was getting; Elway replied:

A Hall of Famer with a chip on his shoulder.

Seahawk secondary ace Richard Sherman, during last Sunday's postgame news conference, was asked if he'll trash talk Peyton Manning; Sherman dismissed the very thought and replied:

If you try to get in his head, you'll get lost.

Evolving game day weather forecast


Live odds

 

[eyer]

Practically everyone knows by now that Denver got their man...

...but, how many remember that Seattle went hard after Peyton Manning, too?

In fact, as Manning was in Denver checking out the Broncos after he was cut by Indianapolis, Seahawks' coach Pete Carroll and general manager John Schneider flew in to a Denver airport and remained on their plane while awaiting word from Manning whether he'd meet with them or not...

...Manning decline the meeting.

As co-founder of Microsoft Paul Allen owns the 'hawks, $$$ was probably no object...

...so, was it simply that Manning really did want to remain in the AFC - period?

 

[eyer]

Super Bowl MVP prop bet odds, courtesy of Bovada:

Peyton Manning, Broncos, QB … 6/5
Russell Wilson, Seattle, QB … 7/2
Marshawn Lynch, Seattle, RB … 5/1
Demaryius Thomas, Broncos, WR … 18/1
Wes Welker, Broncos, WR … 20/1
Percy Harvin, Seattle, WR … 20/1
Knowshon Moreno, Broncos, RB … 20/1
Richard Sherman, Seattle, CB … 25/1
Eric Decker, Broncos, WR … 25/1
Golden Tate, Seattle, WR … 25/1
Julius Thomas, Broncos, TE … 25/1
Doug Baldwin, Seattle, WR … 33/1
Earl Thomas, Seattle, DB … 40/1
Champ Bailey, Broncos, CB … 66/1
Montee Ball, Broncos, RB … 66/1
Kam Chancellor, Seattle, SS … 75/1
Matt Prater, Broncos, K … 75/1
Steven Hauschka, Seattle, K … 75/1
Danny Trevathan, Broncos, LB … 100/1
Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, Broncos, CB … 100/1
Duke Ihenacho, Broncos, S … 100/1
Michael Bennett, Seattle, DL … 100/1
Zach Miller, Seattle, TE … 100/1
Field for any of the other players … 22/1

 

[eyer]

Mentor and student meet again in 48...

Excerpted from:

http://seattletimes.com/html/seahawks/2022731559_seahawksnotebook23xml.html

Seahawks’ Russell Wilson attended Manning camp

Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson attended the Manning Passing Camp as a high school sophomore. He worked with Peyton Manning, then the Colts’ star quarterback.

By Joshua Mayers

Seattle Times staff reporter

RENTON – Every year, hundreds of aspiring young quarterbacks enroll at the Manning Passing Academy to learn about the position from some of the very best.

Peyton Manning. Eli Manning. Archie Manning.

About a decade ago, one of those quarterbacks was Russell Wilson, a wide-eyed 10th grader at a Virginia prep school who just happened to be in the select group that worked with Peyton, then a star with the Indianapolis Colts.

Fast forward to Wednesday, as Wilson and the Seahawks prepare to face Manning and the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII, and the admiration is much the same.

“I liked him so much back then and still do, just the way he plays the game,” Wilson said. “He’s just such a tremendous individual. He has great attention to detail, great leadership. He’s won a lot of games, so we’re going to have to play our best football game.”

Wilson, recalling his teenage experience with Manning, remembered “how much of a perfectionist he was.” It should be no surprise, then, that the preparation habits stuck.

“I have a long ways to go, obviously,” Wilson said, “but I just try to use all the little things. That’s what he does. He takes tons of notes. He does all the right things, and he puts his team in the position to win football games.

“I try to emulate a lot of the things he does in terms of the knowledge that he has for the game. Obviously he can make all the throws and all that, but his knowledge separates him from everyone else. That’s what I’m trying to work to one day.”

Shared time at the passing academy stuck with Manning, as well — at least vaguely. Before the 2012 NFL draft, the Broncos invited Wilson to Denver, where he met Manning again in the locker room.

“Have I seen you before somewhere?” Manning asked. “I think I’ve seen you. ... Where do I know you?”

Wilson was happy to explain then, but he surely won’t have to anymore.

 

[eyer]

Thug Buster...

http://i0.mail.com/524/2602524,h=425,pd=1,w=620/julius-thomas.jpg

 

[islandman]

Practically everyone knows by now that Denver got their man...

...but, how many remember that Seattle went hard after Peyton Manning, too?

In fact, as Manning was in Denver checking out the Broncos after he was cut by Indianapolis, Seahawks' coach Pete Carroll and general manager John Schneider flew in to a Denver airport and remained on their plane while awaiting word from Manning whether he'd meet with them or not...

...Manning decline the meeting.

As co-founder of Microsoft Paul Allen owns the 'hawks, $$$ was probably no object...

...so, was it simply that Manning really did want to remain in the AFC - period?

NFL teams operate a mandatory salary cap, hence "$$$ is always an object".

...must be new to football.

 

[eyer]

NFL teams operate a mandatory salary cap, hence "$$$ is always an object".

...must be new to football.

About as new as you are, obviously...

...to dingleberry picking.

 

[islandman]

About as new as you are, obviously...

...to dingleberry picking.

Ain't no big thing, eyer. I just figured you knew that and mis-typed.

 

[islandman]

BTW, eyer, FYI - NFL salary cap this season was $123M.

The Broncos were also 5.8% below that cap in 2013, which they can apply to next year's cap number.

 

[eyer]

#18 needs only 116 passing yards to establish a new League record for most playoff passing yards in a career...

...really remarkable about the probable upcoming feat is that Manning is only now 115 yards behind Brady's record with 110 less passes attempted and 52 less passes completed.


Passing yards, career
1. Tom Brady — 6,424
2. Peyton Manning — 6,309
3. Brett Favre — 5,855
4. Joe Montana — 5,772
5. John Elway — 4,964

Passes completed, career
1. Tom Brady — 590
2. Peyton Manning — 538
3. Brett Favre — 581
4. Joe Montana — 460
5. Dan Marino — 385
6. John Elway — 355

Passes attempted, career
1. Tom Brady — 950
2. Peyton Manning — 840
3. Brett Favre — 791
4. Joe Montana — 734
5. Dan Marino — 687
6. John Elway — 651

Passing touchdowns, career
1. Joe Montana — 45
2. Brett Favre — 44
3. Tom Brady — 43
4. Peyton Manning — 36
5. Dan Marino — 32
8. John Elway — 27


Of all the talk I've read/heard in the last playoff weeks about whether or not Peyton Manning is the greatest QB to ever play the game...

...the same 5 or 6 names are always in that conversation: Manning, Brady, Montana, Favre, Unitas, Elway.

Of course, one that is never even seriously uttered among such greats is...

...Roethlisberger.

 

[islandman]

An armchair quarterback poking fun at someone actually on an NFL team.....

#howutterlyprecious

#youknowyourenotpeytonmaningright

 

[Disgustipated]

Terry Bradshaw not on that list.

#4rings

#neverlostthebiggame

 

[eyer]

Yes, it's still all about me knowing what an insecure, power-craving wannabe I am, craving a woman's consent so I can go ahead and beat and bruise her.

Understood...

 

[Disgustipated]

I'm insecure and women shun me. ..
I'm too stupid to know the difference between beating and bruising

Right on!

 

[eyer]

BigBenBait snags the largemouth once again...

Terry Bradshaw not on that list.

#4rings

#neverlostthebiggame

That's correct...

...Bradshaw and your boy Ben are never considered on the greatest list because, well, no one but you even imagines they're actually great individual quarterbacks.

You see, great individual quarterbacks win League Most Valuable Player awards...

...and Manning gets his record-setting 5th Saturday nite (no other player in NFL history has more than 3).

Bradshaw and Roethlisberger are very, very good team QBs...

...just like AJ McCarron is.

But, despite 2 National Championships to his name, McCarron will never be included in any serious "greatest" college football QB discussions...

...of course, and understandably, that does not discount discussions you prefer to partake in.

 

[eyer]

I'm insecure and women shun me. ..
I'm too stupid to know the difference between beating and bruising

I understand...