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March 06, 2016
Peyton Manning is Retiring from the NFL: Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning will announce his retirement from the NFL at a news conference in Denver on Monday, bringing an end to a Hall of Fame career. In his 18-year career with the Indianapolis Colts and Denver Broncos, Manning won two Super Bowl titles, five most valuable player awards and the records for career yards and passing touchdowns. He plans to spend more time with his brands: Nationwide, Papa John's, Gatorade, Nike, DirecTV and Budweiser.
And Jaromir Jagr continues merrily along.
posted by tommybiden at 07:47 PM on March 06, 2016
(I don't know how Jagr and his old legs manage to prevail on that squishy Panthers home ice. Skating on it must seem like a resistance workout.)
posted by beaverboard at 09:47 PM on March 06, 2016
and his old legs manage to prevail on that squishy Panthers home ice
I get the old legs part of it but bad ice usually impacts fast skating skilled players a lot more than it does an old guy whose game is more about dominant offensive zone puck control than end to end rushes.
Peyton
Great player. Expect he'll be getting a lot of calls from NFL owners for front office positions similar to the way teams lined up to try to sign him when he left Indy.
posted by cixelsyd at 10:43 AM on March 07, 2016
FiveThirtyEight is saying that statistically, Manning didn't have a Hall of Fame career...he had two...
posted by MeatSaber at 11:10 AM on March 07, 2016
FiveThirtyEight is saying that statistically, Manning didn't have a Hall of Fame career...he had two...
Statistician Bill James was once asked if he thought Rickey Henderson was a Hall of Famer. James' reply: "If you could split him in two, you'd have two Hall of Famers."
posted by grum@work at 06:00 PM on March 07, 2016
Sports Illustrated online ran a piece entitled The 18 Best Moments of Peyton Manning's Career, and led it off with a montage of his most noteworthy TV commercials.
Then when they actually got into the sports discussion, the 18 moments included a SNL appearance and his goodbye press conference in Indy.
I guess if you're going to have a really lame website, you might as well make sure that the content you're hoisting up is of a comparable quality level.
Why doesn't SI do a feature on Kelly Ripa? She's on TV every day with a great big man who used to play football. I'm sure she's had some great moments too.
posted by beaverboard at 07:40 PM on March 07, 2016
To be fair, his appearances on SNL really are quite good. He's easily one of the best performing athletes they've ever had on the show
posted by grum@work at 09:22 PM on March 07, 2016
Manning's the only athlete/host I can recall who was good on SNL and not desperately craning his neck for cue cards the whole time.
Has SI ever been a good website? I can't say I'm surprised it would resort to dumb clickbait.
posted by rcade at 08:35 AM on March 08, 2016
Manning's the only athlete/host I can recall who was good on SNL
He'll never be Joe Montana. If you guys need me . . .
posted by yerfatma at 10:43 AM on March 08, 2016
Ah yes, the SNL era of, "This sketch is mildly amusing for the first 10 seconds, but since we don't have much else in the entire program, we'll need to stretch this out for another 15 minutes."
posted by NoMich at 10:57 AM on March 08, 2016
posted by beaverboard at 12:58 PM on March 08, 2016
On a newsday basis, this is like Super Bowl XXII. Peyton retires in the first quarter, then Nancy Reagan dies in the second quarter and it's all over.