Peyton Manning’s squeaky-clean image was built on lies

[KamaAina]

Ruh-roh, Rorge...

http://m.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-peyton-manning-squeaky-clean-image-built-lies-article-1.2530395

Thirteen years ago, USA Today obtained 74 pages of explosive court documents on Peyton Manning, Archie Manning, the University of Tennessee, and Florida Southern College that revealed allegations of a sexual-assault scandal, cover up, and smear campaign of the victim that was so deep, so widespread and so ugly that it would've rocked the American sports world to its core. Yet USA Today never released those documents for reasons I can't explain.

Mel Antonen, now a baseball writer for Sports Illustrated, wrote about the documents for the paper on Nov. 3, 2003. Three days later, Christine Brennan, longtime sportswriter for USA Today wrote an op-ed about Peyton Manning and the documents entitled, “Do you really know your sports hero?” but the scandal pretty much died right there.

Facebook wouldn’t be invented for three more months. Twitter didn’t come for three more years. The word “viral” was still only being used to describe the spread of infectious diseases.

But when the documents were sent to me on Tuesday, two days after the Super Bowl, it was immediately clear to me that had the world actually known what they contained, it’s doubtful that Peyton would have ever been the “swell, golly, gee-whiz” pitchman for Nationwide Insurance, DirecTV or Papa John’s Pizza. Certainly, evangelical op-eds calling him “squeaky clean” and positioning Peyton as the arbiter of all things good and decent in the world simply wouldn’t be the case.

Who knew HGH worked like Viagra?

[Kingofalldems]

1. Manziel can't hold a candle to him---and his father.

I hope this phony gets taken down.

[El Supremo]

2. Man, this is old, old, old news.

I'm convinced it was not a sexual assault, but there is a permanent gag order on both parties. So we may never know the whole story.

[Kingofalldems]

3. According to what I read, Manning violated the gag order.

[El Supremo]

4. Yes. And he got fined.

[madinmaryland]

5. He was trying to teabag the woman. What a fucking perv.

[Elwood P Dowd]

6. Besides being a republican hypocrit, Manning is also a sex pervert.

From the article.....

On Feb. 29 of that year, Naughright, at that point the university's director of health and wellness, was in a training room, examining what she thought might be a possible stress fracture in Manning's foot. At 6 feet, 5 inches, his feet dangled off the edge of the table. Manning allegedly then proceeded to scoot down the training table while Naughright examined his foot. At that point, she said, he forcefully maneuvered his naked testicles and rectum directly on her face with his penis on top of her head. Shocked, disgusted, and offended, Naughright pushed Manning away, removing her head out from under him (see pages 14-15). Within hours, she reported the incident to the Sexual Assault Crisis Center in Knoxville (see page 18).

[Auggie]

7. So what happens?

Manning walks away with a little * after his name but a zillion bucks and two Lombardi trophies.

I'm so sick of these assholes getting away with this shit.

[NaturalHigh]

10. What has he "gotten away" with?

He's already paid off this trainer, and so has the University of Tennessee. Assuming the story is even true, I'd say he's paid the price.

[Auggie]

11. Misdemeanor / Felony

[erpowers]

8. Sean King is Wrong

Sean King, the author of this piece, is wrong. It appears he does not follow sports. King claims that Peyton Manning would not be treated the way he is and would not have the multi-million dollar endorsement deals if people knew of his past at the University of Tennessee. I think many people would laugh at the idea that Sean King thinks what Manning did at UT would have been bad enough to make people think twice about give Manning big deals. Peyton Manning does not make millions of dollars in endorsement deals because of his squeaky clean image; he makes millions of dollars because he wins games and breaks records. He also gets those big deal because people buy the products he endorses. Does King think the people who paid Tiger Woods million of dollars per year did not know about his sex life? At least one sports reporter has claimed that people in the media and sports knew about Tiger Woods' wild sex life. Yet, they paid him large amounts of money. In addition, after it came out that Woods was cheating on his wife with at least 14 women he did not lose his biggest endorsements.

It is not uncommon for male professional athletes to makes millions of dollars in endorsement deals even if they have engaged in bad behavior before, during, or after their professional careers. There are many male professional athletes who make million of dollars from endorsement deals who make Peyton Manning look like a decent guy. It has been reported that President Lyndon B. Johnson said of President John F. Kennedy's sex life, "I had sex with more people by accident than he had on purpose". Some professional athletes have done more and worse things by accident than Peyton Manning did on purpose, but they still have multi-million dollar endorsement deals and are considered heroes, role models, and decent men.

It is likely that multiple books could be written about the bad behavior of male professional athletes who behaved poorly during their time in sports, but still have multi-million dollar deals. It is well known that Brett Favre sexual harassed a member of the New York Jets staff, but he still has multi-million dollar endorsement deals. It has been reported that Shaq cheated on his wife multiple times, but he still has multi-million dollar endorsement deals and is thought of as an all around nice guy. Charles Barkely tried to pay a woman for oral sex, but still hosts a show on TNT and has endorsement deals. There are many male professional athletes who have been accused of domestic abuse and other bad things, but still have endorsement deals. That is the benefit of being a successful professional athlete.

[Jamaal510]

9. Not Captain Forehead... nt