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| Birth Name(s) : Peyton Manning |
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Full Peyton Manning Biography
Peyton Williams Manning (born March 24, 1976 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American football quarterback who plays for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Colts with the first overall pick in the 1998 NFL Draft. He played college football at Tennessee.
In 1996, while still quarterback at the University of Tennessee, Manning dropped his pants while being treated by assistant athletic trainer Jamie Ann Naughright. After an investigation, the university concluded the incident was a "mooning" gone awry and not sexual in nature, and Manning was disciplined and required to apologize in writing to Naughright. The university chose to settle Naughright's sexual harassment claims (which included the Manning incident) for $300,000. In 2003, Manning settled a 2002 lawsuit filed by Naughright for $300,000. In the suit Naughright alleged that "Manning: A Father, His Sons and a Football Legacy", a book written by Manning, his father and author John Underwood, defamed her.
Manning threw for 4,267 yards and 29 touchdowns during the 2003 regular season, leading his team to a 12-4 record despite having a defense that ranked 20th in the NFL in points allowed (336). In the wild card playoff round Manning and the Colts defeated the Denver Broncos 41-10, Manning's first playoff win after first round losses in the 3 previous seasons. He completed 22 of 26 passes for 377 yards and 5 touchdowns in the game, earning him a perfect 158.3 Passer Rating. In the divisional playoffs, Manning led the Colts to a 38-31 win over the Kansas City Chiefs in the first puntless game in NFL playoff history, throwing for 304 yards and 3 touchdowns, and earning a 138.8 passer rating. In the AFC title game Manning was shut down by the New England Patriots defense and posted the third lowest passer rating of his career at 35.5. The Patriots defense intercepted Manning four times (three of them by Ty Law) as the Colts lost the game 24-14.
Manning holds a number of individual career records:
- Seasons with 4,000+ yards: 7, 1999–2004, 2006
- Consecutive seasons with 4,000+ yards: 6, from 1999–2004
- Consecutive seasons with 25+ TD passes: 9, from 1998-2006 (current)
- Games with perfect passer rating: 4 (includes 1 playoff game; most perfect games of any QB since passer rating was created by the NFL in 1973)
- Manning has started his every NFL game, (currently 144 games), the longest career-opening streak for a QB. He is still behind Brett Favre's consecutive-starts streak record.
- Set NFL record for most completions in a single post-season (97) during the 2006/2007 post-season.
During the 2004 season Manning broke several single season passing records, including:
- Touchdowns: 49 (previously held by Dan Marino with 48 in 1984)
- Passer rating: 121.1 (previously held by Steve Young with 112.8 in 1994)
- Consecutive games with at least 4 TD passes: 5 (previously held by Marino with 4 TDs in 4 consecutive games in 1984)
- 5 TD passes in 4 different games in less than 12 months (previously held by Marino)
- First QB to throw 10+ TD passes to each of 3 different receivers in 1 season (14, Marvin Harrison; 12, Reggie Wayne; 10, Brandon Stokley). The Colts are the only team ever to have 3 WRs with 10+ TDs in 1 season. In addition, all three receivers had over 1,000 yards (also an NFL record).
- Although not an NFL record, Manning threw 6 TD passes in a little over a half against the Detroit Lions on November 25, 2004. It was the second time in his career that Manning achieved this (also in 2003).
Manning and Colts wide receiver Marvin Harrison hold a number of QB-WR tandem records:
- Completions: 677 (set in 2004; previously held by Buffalo Bills QB Jim Kelly and WR Andre Reed)
- Yards: 10,253 (as of November 13, 2005; previously held by Kelly and Reed)
- Touchdowns: 107 (as of September 7, 2007; previous record was 85 by San Francisco 49ers QB Steve Young and WR Jerry Rice), broken on October 17, 2005
He was also featured in one of a series of DirecTV commercials where celebrities are seen in their element, then suddenly begin addressing the viewer. In his comercial they parodied his pre-snap audible routine and known delay in calling for the ball by having him pitch NFL Sunday Ticket instead of changing the play during a blowout game against the Tennessee Titans.
Manning also hosted Saturday Night Live with musical guest Carrie Underwood on March 24, 2007 - his 31st birthday. The episode earned the show’s highest household rating in more than 10 months in the metered markets, averaging a 5.9 rating and 15 share. During his opening, he alluded to his most-marketable status by joking that he had accomplished two of his life goals: his team, the Colts, winning a Super Bowl and his appearance on over half of America's television commercials. During the closing credits, the cast presented him with a birthday cake. He also starred in a couple of sketches, most notably a very lengthy faux United Way commercial where he drills children in the head and genitals with a football, teaches them how to break into cars, talks about killing snitches, and exiles one of them to a Port-o-let for failing to catch the ball, among other things. The tagline for the commercial was: "Spend time with your kids so Peyton Manning doesn't." |
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