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He is no longer the only QB to win a Super Bowl with two franchises 47.223.111.93 (talk) 00:41, 15 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

this still isn't changed. 2601:408:C102:5170:A85E:E74D:4E9:BF20 (talk) 18:28, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Where in the article is it? It looks like it was changed to me. WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 18:33, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Illegal drug trafficking and sexual assault[edit]

Why are both of these so santized in the article. I see that there has been an effort to include more about these in this article in the past but that those who have tried to get it included are always faced with an opposition of Manning fan boys. Very bizarre. 71.114.123.162 (talk) 18:10, 25 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to suggest new text with supporting citations.—Bagumba (talk) 01:17, 26 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I propose this:
====Sexual assault allegations, violations of court orders and misogynistic comments====
In 1996, while attending the University of Tennessee, Manning, while being examined by a female trainer, pulled down his shorts as she bent over behind him to examine his foot to determine why it was hurting,[1] and she has claimed he then sat on her face and proceeded to rub his anal area and testicles on her face until she pushed him up off of her.[2][3]
According to a court filing by the trainer's attorney, she reported Manning's actions to the Sexual Assault Crisis Center in Knoxville within hours.[2] Manning apologized but claimed that he did not do everything the trainer alleged and that he was just mooning teammates across the room when she happened to be behind him.[1] Despite Manning's denial, at least one eyewitness confirmed the trainer's account.[3] In court documents filed by her attorney, the trainer also claimed that Manning later taunted her by re-enacting the incident on two occasions, called her a "bitch" when she attempted to give him a drug test, and threw a pen across the room that he was supposed to use to sign and date the drug test sample.[2] The trainer later settled with the university for $300,000 for its alleged failure to properly handle the actions of Manning and others in various incidents, and she agreed to resign from the school.[1]
Manning then referred to the incident and described the trainer as having a "vulgar mouth" in his autobiography published in 2000, Manning: A Father, His Sons, and a Football Legacy, saying he was "crude, maybe, but harmless" in his conduct towards her. He also added that "women in the men’s locker room is one of the most misbegotten concessions to equal rights ever made" and that "[w]hen Dad [Archie Manning] played, there was still at least a tacit acknowledgment that women and men are two different sexes, with all that implies, and a certain amount of decorum had to be maintained. Meaning when it came to training rooms and shower stalls, the opposite sex was not allowed. Common sense tells you why." [4][2][3][5] As a result of the "vulgar mouth" comment, the trainer was demoted from her job as Program Director at Florida Southern College.[3] The trainer sued for defamation, resulting in an undisclosed settlement in 2003 and a court-ordered gag on Manning and the trainer ever talking about the settlement or each other again.[5][6]
In denying a request for dismissal of the suit, Polk County Circuit Judge Harvey A. Kornstein stated "[e]ven if the plaintiff is a public figure, the evidence of the record contains sufficient evidence to satisfy the court that a genuine issue of material fact exists that would allow a jury to find, by clear and convincing evidence, the existence of actual malice of the part of the defendants", going on to say that "there is evidence of record, substantial enough to suggest that the defendants knew that the passages in question were false".[2]
In 2005, Manning was forced to re-settle again after violating the court's gag order by further discussing the incident and claiming she had taken advantage of him in an ESPN documentary special program about him.[5]
====Performance enhancing drugs allegations====
On December 27, 2015, Al Jazeera America released a report conducted by the Al Jazeera Investigative Unit investigating professional athletes' use of Performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) which named Manning, among other prominent athletes, as having received illegal drugs from Charles Sly, a pharmacist who had worked at the Guyer Anti-Aging Clinic in Indianapolis during the fall of 2011. The report involved Liam Collins, a British hurdler, going undercover in an attempt to obtain banned substances from Sly and other medical professionals. The report claimed that Manning's wife, Ashley, had been shipped off label human growth hormone (HGH) by the Guyer Institute during the fall of 2011 while Manning was out with a severe neck injury, with the intention of hiding that Manning was the one actually receiving the drugs.[7][8] Sly told Collins during their conversations that "[a]ll the time we would be sending Ashley Manning drugs [...] Like growth hormone, all the time, everywhere, Florida. And it would never be under Peyton's name, it would always be under her name." [9]
It is illegal to prescribe HGH off label,[7][10] as the only legitimate ailments in which HGH can be prescribed to adults are for patients with childhood pituitary gland disorders which are carried over into adulthood, patients with Short bowel syndrome, and late-stage HIV patients. HGH was outlawed by the NFL as part of the collective bargaining agreement, which was ratified on August 5, 2011.[11][12] The Indianapolis Star reported that in 2007 federal indictment was brought against Thomas Bader and College Pharmacy of Colorado Springs which alleged Guyer received Chinese HGH that was not approved by the FDA from College Pharmacy "on or around Feb. 22, 2007." and that Bader was later found guilty in 2010 and sentenced to 40 months in prison for illegally importing human growth hormone from China and other charges related to his sale of HGH.[13][14][15]
Manning issued a statement stating, that he is "angry, furious [...] disgusted is really how I feel, sickened by [the allegations]".[8] He told ESPN's Lisa Salter that he had visited the Guyer Institute 35 times during 2011 and that he had received both medication and treatment from Guyer during this time.[16] Sly recanted his story and requested that the report not be aired via a YouTube video following the release of the report.[17][18] Sly later claimed to ESPN that Collins had taken advantage of him during a vulnerable time in his life as Sly's fiancée had allegedly died, although Sly refers to his fiancée, "Karen", several times in the present tense during his conversations with Collins and gave no indication to Collins that she had died.[8]
Sly told ESPN's Chris Mortensen that he is not a pharmacist and was not at the Guyer Institute in 2011, as Al Jazeera claimed, but state licensing records indicate that someone named "Charles David Sly" was licensed as a pharmacy intern in Indiana from April 2010 to May 2013 and that his license expired May 1, 2013.[19] Sly later stated that "[w]hen [he] was there, [he] had never seen the Mannings ever. They were not even living there at that time," and that "[s]omeone who worked there said they had been there before. That was the extent of any knowledge I had. I feel badly. I never saw any files. This is just amazing that it reached this point."[20]
An employee at the Guyer Institute named "Heather" later confirmed to Al Jazeera investigative reporter Deborah Davies who called the clinic to request an "employment verification" that Sly had worked at the clinic during the "fall of 2011" and confirmed that his start date was October 17, 2011.[21][22][23]
On December 28, 2015, both the NFL and MLB both initiated investigations into the allegations made by Sly.[24][25]
Al Jazeera America reported on January 3, 2016, that the Al Jazeera Investigative Unit were in contact with a second source, who was "impeccably placed, knowledgable, and credible" and was a former employee at the Guyer Institute, which confirms Sly's allegation that HGH was sent to Ashley Manning.[26][27]
On January 26, 2016, it was reported that the USADA had joined with the MLB to investigate the allegations made by Sly, but that the NFL was refusing to cooperate with the joint MLB and USADA investigation. [28] The NFL later denied the reports, stating that the "NFL has worked with USADA & MLB from the start.". [29]
On February 5, 2016, Ari Fleischer confirmed that Ashley Manning did receive shipments from the Guyer Institute, but refused to confirm that the shipments had included HGH. [30]
====Bullying of accusers====
The Daily Beast reported Mike Freeman, Bleacher Report’s NFL national lead writer, as saying when asked why Manning turns to bullying when he’s challenged by an accuser, that "[f]or every classy part of Manning, the one that sells pizzas and says, ‘Golly gee and aw shucks,’ there is a bit of a ruthless guy [...] this is not stated maliciously. It’s stated honestly. I think what he did with [the trainer] is an example of that. He does that [exposes himself] to her, which is a despicable thing, and then later in his book, takes a shot at her. That shot was calculated. It was a way of trying to diminish [the trainer] and her original accusations" [31]
On February 5, 2016, it was reported that Manning secretly hired private investigators to investigate Charles Sly and his family. Two men, wearing black overcoats and jeans, visited the parents of Sly, and according to a 911 call from [Sly's parent's] house during the visit, stated that one of the men initially said he was a law enforcement officer but didn’t have a badge. The two men later acknowledged that they weren't law enforcement officers and stated they were looking for Sly and not his parents. [32] After the 911 call, the police went to the Sly house, but after identifying themselves as private investigators, the parents decided to talk with the investigators, and the police left. Sly's parents informed them that their son was due to come home for the holidays the next day. Manning’s investigators spoke with Sly on December 23, 2016, though they refused to identify specifically who they were representing.[33][34]
====Lack of media coverage on scandals====
Manning's performance enhancing drugs allegations published at the end of 2015 did not have a big media coverage compared, for example, with Tom Brady's issues towards Deflategate scandal earlier that year. Some media even handle the issue on an evasive way, such as a Fox News opinion talk show host claiming that the PED allegations reported by Al Jazeera were a plot to go "after American icons and US institutions," citing the allegations against Peyton Manning as the prime example, even though Al Jazeera's reporter Deborah Davies gave specific details about the reports to media outlets such CNN and NBC News.[35][36][37] CBS Sports sportscaster and NFL on CBS #1 Play-by-play commentator Jim Nantz, who shares agent Sandy Montag with Manning, refused to acknowledge the Al Jazeera report while on the air, referring to it as a "non-story".[38][39] Nantz has appeared in advertisements with Manning for Papa John's Pizza, of which Manning owns every franchise in Denver metro area, as well as Sony products. In an e-mail to the Daily News, Ari Fleischer wrote, "I didn't even know Sandy represented Nantz and in all cases, I haven’t asked Sandy to do anything on this."[40]
A comparison has been made by several sports writers, highlighting the lack of media coverage of Manning's wrongdoings, as compared to several prominent black athletes, including Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton and Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston, whose wrongdoings have received far more media coverage. [41][42] Dave Zirin for The Nation stated that "[t]he financial power of Peyton Manning means that he operates by a different, deeply corrosive set of media rules than any other player". Zirin went on to state that "Manning is a commercial leviathan not only because he has had a storied Hall of Fame career but because he is a white, All-American superstar from a prominent family in a league that is 70 percent black." [43]

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173.67.130.26 (talk) 13:54, 26 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

the Sheriff[edit]

this is not a widely known or used nickname for him . this should be removed from the intro paragraph. 2603:7000:6400:E058:650F:E0E6:EAC3:1B5F (talk) 04:14, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree that this nickname is not widely known, though it is known to have originated from Gruden and used primarily by him. 2603:900A:1500:8ACE:CAC5:EC88:EC30:FC23 (talk) 02:41, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 8 December 2023[edit]

Please change "Helping lead both the Colts and Broncos to two Super Bowls each, Manning is the only quarterback to have multiple Super Bowl starts with more than one franchise" to "Helping lead both the Colts and Broncos to two Super Bowls each, Manning is one of only two quarterbacks to have multiple Super Bowl starts with more than one franchise (with Tom Brady)" Pointmeatthesky (talk) 14:00, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done @Pointmeatthesky: Brady only started one Super Bowl for the Bucs. ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 14:13, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
This is extremely petty pedantics. Typical of Wikipedia. 184.187.143.8 (talk) 12:05, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Factually incorrect statement in the article[edit]

Referring to this line:

“Helping lead both the Colts and Broncos to two Super Bowls each, Manning is the only quarterback to have multiple Super Bowl starts with more than one franchise”

Manning is no longer the only QB to have multiple Super Bowl starts with more than one franchise nor the only one to win multiple Super Bowls with multiple franchises. Tom Brady won his seventh Super Bowl with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Brady’s second team. The passage should be either be removed or modified to read “the first,” not the “only”. 184.187.143.8 (talk) 12:03, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 29 February 2024[edit]

Under the Personal Life section, change the following sentence, "The show features segments with special guest stars from entertainment, politics, and sports while the Manning brothers watch the game." to the following: "The show features segments with special guest stars from entertainment, politics, and sports while the Manning brothers watch and commentate on the game."

I recommend this change because the former implies the Manning brothers are merely watching the game while doing other things (e.g. interviewing guests), but they actually also provide color commentary, especially when guests are not in air. 2603:900A:1500:8ACE:CAC5:EC88:EC30:FC23 (talk) 02:39, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Kline • talk to me! • contribs 03:30, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Why is there little to no mentions of his sexual assault and illegal drug trafficking scandals?[edit]

It looks like previous people have put forth substantial proposals to add information about these topics to the article multiple times, but they are still not added for some reason. Why? The proposal a few entries above in the talk page look just fine to me. 71.114.123.162 (talk) 18:32, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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