MOtorboat
09-10-2012, 08:43 PM
I haven't seen this here. What an incredible article.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/sports/football/for-peyton-manning-one-pass-then-many-steps.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
Forward Progress
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. The perfect time to tell this story is after we win the Super Bowl this year.
Instead, Peyton Manning was telling it after a training camp practice. Uncertainty visited his career for the first time last season, the faint scar on the back of his neck mapping the detour from the smooth path he had followed since high school, the one that made him the biggest, most surreal free agent in football history earlier this year. He has landed here, in the unfamiliar shadows of mountains he has no time to appreciate, in a new offense whose terminology he is still learning, making jokes about how he feels a little like a rookie but is not allowed to play like one. He does not know what to expect when the Denver Broncos open the season against the Pittsburgh Steelers next Sunday, let alone four months from now.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/sports/football/for-peyton-manning-one-pass-then-many-steps.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
Forward Progress
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. The perfect time to tell this story is after we win the Super Bowl this year.
Instead, Peyton Manning was telling it after a training camp practice. Uncertainty visited his career for the first time last season, the faint scar on the back of his neck mapping the detour from the smooth path he had followed since high school, the one that made him the biggest, most surreal free agent in football history earlier this year. He has landed here, in the unfamiliar shadows of mountains he has no time to appreciate, in a new offense whose terminology he is still learning, making jokes about how he feels a little like a rookie but is not allowed to play like one. He does not know what to expect when the Denver Broncos open the season against the Pittsburgh Steelers next Sunday, let alone four months from now.