Denver Native (Carol)
01-20-2014, 01:38 PM
DENVER -- It was less than 18 months ago, after a training camp practice on a warm, late summer day, that Peyton Manning began a story.
"The perfect time to tell this story is after we win the Super Bowl this year," is how he began that tale, about how a pass thrown in secret to his friend Todd Helton at Coors Field nosedived into the ground. That was, technically, the first pass Manning threw in Denver, while he was trying to avoid more surgery to repair his neck, while he was locked out of Indianapolis as owners and players negotiated a new collective bargaining agreement. This was long before he could have ever known that his career would take a dramatic, wrenching detour toward the shadows of the mountains.
The only thing off about that story was its timing. Because the perfect time to tell it, it turns out, is now.
rest - http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000315425/article/peyton-mannings-path-to-super-bowl-xlviii-a-story-worth-telling
"The perfect time to tell this story is after we win the Super Bowl this year," is how he began that tale, about how a pass thrown in secret to his friend Todd Helton at Coors Field nosedived into the ground. That was, technically, the first pass Manning threw in Denver, while he was trying to avoid more surgery to repair his neck, while he was locked out of Indianapolis as owners and players negotiated a new collective bargaining agreement. This was long before he could have ever known that his career would take a dramatic, wrenching detour toward the shadows of the mountains.
The only thing off about that story was its timing. Because the perfect time to tell it, it turns out, is now.
rest - http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000315425/article/peyton-mannings-path-to-super-bowl-xlviii-a-story-worth-telling