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Denver Native (Carol)
01-13-2014, 06:12 PM
DENVER -- Most of the stadium lights were already out Sunday night and the parking lots were emptying, but Peyton Manning was back briefly on the sideline in his suit, glancing over his shoulder, watching his son scamper around the end zone.

It has been four long years -- through a crushing Super Bowl loss and an unfathomable first-round playoff exit, through a career-threatening injury and the wrenching departure from the only team he had ever known, through a relocation and, exactly one year ago, an excruciating renewal of his postseason history -- since Manning had been able to revel in even an early playoff victory.

The yoke of expectation and the burden of disappointment had attached themselves to Manning for years, unfairly in many cases. So there was no missing the significance of Sunday's 24-17 victory over the San Diego Chargers to set up the AFC Championship Game matchup everyone had wanted all along, the 15th renewal of Manning's rivalry with Tom Brady and the New England Patriots.

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