As Super Bowl Sunday nears I get more and more excited about the prospect of Peyton Manning winning another title. Since getting into football these past few years, the Indianapolis Colts quarterback has been pretty much as close to cluch as you can get. I didn't pay attention through the years that everyone questioned him and whether he could win the big game. The year I got into football was the season he did just that.
My personal rule regarding football games is you don't bet against Peyton Manning. No matter how high the odds are stacked against him, you just don't count him out for one second. By the end of his career he will be in the discussion for greatest quarterback to ever play the game. It is unavoidable. Even if he loses on Sunday, which I don't think is going to happen.
His leadership at the line of scrimmage, dedication to mastering his craft and in-the-moment actions to throw off defenses like dummy audibles, varying snap counts, fake pumps, play action maneuvering and avoidance of eye contact with the receiver he is actually going to. You would think losing Marvin Harrison and Anthony Gonzalez while adding two receivers who going into the year had a combined four receptions in the NFL would be too much of an obstacle for Manning to overcome. But what did he do? Went on to nearly have a perfect 16-0 season had his coach not benched the brilliant QB in the third quarter of Week 16.
Although it is his characteristics on the field that makes him the legend he will become known as decades to come, it's his off-the-field commercials and Saturday Night Live hosting spot that gives him the charisma and charm he is also known to have by non-sports enthusiasts. It's just a shame he has to be related to Eli "Dumb Face" Manning.
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