Denver Post and SI are reporting that the Broncos plan to offer Manning a $60 million, five-year contract. Good Lord, if Payton plays another five years he’ll be retiring to an operating room.
He’d be 41; others have played that long, he’s among the best there is at avoiding hits, and his doctors have said he’s at no more risk than anyone else.
I don’t know that he *will *play that long, nor that they’ll want him to under that deal but it makes sense to offer him to an until-the-end-of-his-career contract.
That’s nothing. Shoney’s restaurant has offered Manning free pancakes every day he is a member of the Tennessee Titans. Free pancakes! Every day! Checkmate!
It’s a general rule that you can ignore the last two years of most veteran contracts.
Peyton Manning…backed up by Tim Tebow…on the Denver Broncos. All I need is for Jerry Jones to buy them and it’ll be everything in the NFL that I ever hated all rolled up into one delicious ball of needs-an-ass-whuppin’. If this happens (the Manning thing — Jones won’t leave Texas for fear of being shot on sight, and the only potential replacement, Al Davis, finally got around to admitting he was dead), then 2012 is going to be one hell of an interesting year for this Charger fan.
Manning chooses Denver.
How did his agent convince him to turn down that Shoney’s pancake deal?