Who gets Peyton?

[buckethead]

I would have no prob sending the Tebow circus to some other city if we could get Peyton for 2 years.

My guess is Houston, though

[Blaidd Drwg]

Pray it's not Seattle. ..with the possible exception of Warren Moon, this is where Icons go to crash burn and die.

[bigpeach]

Saskatchewan Roughriders.

[Testiclaw]

[powerlifter54]

Your Miami Dolphins.

[baffled]

He wants to go somewhere he can win. I don't see that being Miami, NYJ etc. I think the 49'ers would have to at least consider dumping Alex Smith, right?

edit:
And don't tell me Arizon's good with Kevin Kolb and John Skelton lining up under center.

[Jonny Canuck]

I think the list of where he won't be going might be a shorter list. I think he will end up in Houston or the NFC West.

[Protobuilder]

Go to the Jets and let the NY media piss themselves for the next year.

[TerryB]

Go to the Jets and let the NY media piss themselves for the next year.

My grandfather pissed himself for a year you insensitif cunt!

[Protobuilder]

Go to the Jets and let the NY media piss themselves for the next year.

My grandfather pissed himself for a year you insensitif cunt!

Say that to my face, dillweed!

[baffled]

I think the list of where he won't be going might be a shorter list. I think he will end up in Houston or the NFC West.

I tend to agree, but I don't know that Houston's really ready to flush Matt Schaub for 2-3 years of Peyton Manning.

I really wouldn't be shocked at all if San Francisco figured that they can get another game manager type QB in a couple years, get rid of Alex Smith, sign Manning and kick the ever loving shit out of the NFC West for a couple years.

[TerryB]

researching bus routes...

[buckethead]

Shitfire, he's in Denver now talking to Mr. Elway. This could get serious.

[powerlifter54]

Shitfire, he's in Denver now talking to Mr. Elway. This could get serious.

[Herv100]

KC or Houston

[Mickey O'neil]

I'd like to see him in Arizona.

[Holland Oates]

I'd like to see him in Arizona.

Me too.

[baffled]

Looks like Bux has no more Tebow: Bye Tim

[The Crawdaddy]

Potential (maybe even probable) scenario:

1. Denver signs Manning
2. Denver trades/cuts/flushes Timmah Tebow
3. Manning reinjures neck and is out for season/career
(3b. Indianapolis owner Jim Irsay quietly smiles and thanks his lucky stars)
4. Denver fires everyone. Finishes last. Drafts whichever QB is in Andrew Luck's position in 2013.

[baffled]

Would anyone want Tebowner on their team?

I wouldn't. Not even close. Unless it's Tebow or The Sanchize at which the judgement is based solely on minimizing douchebag factor.

[powerlifter54]

Thank you, Peyton Manning.



This might be the beginning of something better. Might be the end of everything good. But before we slog into what happens next, where you'll go, what you'll do, we owe you a thank you for what you've done and who you've been.



So thank you, Peyton Manning, for never showing up in the VIP section of Cheerleaders, overserved and under-mannered.



Thank you for never ending up on Court TV, or Page Six or with parts of somebody's nose on your knuckles.






You came to a nowhere franchise and made it Somewhere. Greatness poured out of your fingers because you put in the hours and the study and the pain to let it. Two Super Bowls, four NFL MVPs, 11 Pro Bowls, 11 playoff seasons and more records than a used CD store.



It was trendy to make fun of your "Yes, sirs" and "No, sirs" and your 1950s haircut but many of us secretly admired it.



You played a violent game and yet somehow held on to that southern gentility. In the middle of the worst time of your life, you took the time to write a hand-written note of sympathy last week to Fox's Chris Myers upon the death of his son.



Thank you for watching more film than Martin Scorsese. Thank you for always being the last one to go home at night, for knowing more about what defenses were going to do than some of the players on those defenses themselves.



You came to a nowhere franchise and made it Somewhere. Greatness poured out of your fingers because you put in the hours and the study and the pain to let it. Two Super Bowls, four NFL MVPs, 11 Pro Bowls, 11 playoff seasons and more records than a used CD store.



That Super Bowl win was classic you. Every day that whole week, you made your center, Jeff Saturday, spend an extra 15 minutes snapping you balls you'd soaked in a bucket of water. "It might rain," you said. So when it did, and Chicago Bears quarterback Rex Grossman looked like he was throwing greased watermelons, you looked like you were throwing rocks.



Fourteen years in the league and the worst we can say about you is that you made a lot of castor-oil faces and your helmet left funny marks and one time you laid into your "idiot kicker." Fourteen years and you didn't sext anything, wreck anything or deck anybody.



You were a 10,000-watt bulb in a small city, and yet you never seemed to tire of it. If you did, you rarely showed it. There's a fan website -- peytonmanning18.com/encounters.html -- where everyday people tell how you were with them. It's hard to find a rotten one.



"Peyton was so nice and down to earth," one wrote. "He was just as polite and nice as I've always heard," wrote another. "He was getting ready to leave and wanted to take a picture with me and thank me for driving his golf cart," said a third. It's a lousy site if you're a cynic.



I have no idea how much time and money you have to give to a hospital to have it renamed in your honor, but they did that for you in Indianapolis. Peyton Manning Children's Hospital at St. Vincent. Says a lot.



How many times can one man change an entire city? Well, without you there's probably no Lucas Oil Stadium. Without Lucas Oil Stadium, there's no Super Bowl this year in Indy. Without the Super Bowl, there's no brand-new, drop-dead gorgeous JW Marriott downtown. Forbes figures you improved the Colts' value by $233 million. Compared to that, $28 million to keep you doesn't seem like much, does it?



Thank you for showing up at podiums in your shoulder pads some nights because you knew some of us had early deadlines. Thank you for making us laugh in all those ads. If there's ever been a funnier jock on "Saturday Night Live," I'll keep a ham in my pants.



Thank you for showing up to work every day, every week, season after season. You started 208 straight games -- through purple thumbs and black eyes and stomach flus that left you green. You get paid either way, so thanks.



Hell, you even tipped great. The other night, in North Carolina, you left an extra $200 on a $740 check that already had an 18 percent tip in it. According to my abacus, that's 100 percent class.



Lastly, thank you for the way you left. Always thought you'd go out as a Colt, and go out the way you wanted, but if it had to end this way, "I truly have enjoyed being your quarterback" is as good an exit line as I've heard. You made it sound like it was an elected position, an honor, a job where you knew people were depending on you. You were right.



You came to the line and changed the play 1,000 times, but you never changed your team, your city, your fans. Jim Irsay did all that for you Wednesday.



That would've gone down most guys' throats like a porcupine, but you took it and you smiled and you stood there with your arm around Irsay like he wasn't the one dumping you, like there wasn't a thing he could do about it.



That's grace. You had it in the huddle and you had it in the pocket and you had it at the end.



So thank you, Peyton Manning. And bravo. You wore the horseshoe, but it was us who got lucky.

In the end, his desire to get to the Superbowl, without impeding his brother's way, won out.

[Protobuilder]

Manning is, obviously, a good fit for Denver and, even more obviously, a guy that Elway would really like. However, I don't understand the "unload Tebow" talk. He isn't going to step in and be an ideal player in any situation so why not back up a super classy guy who does everything he doesn't do well to near perfection. Peyton plays for 2-3 more years, Tebow gets to work on correcting flaws he has never had time to correct and, if a game is decided, he gets a shot and everybody gets a good show.

Did the 49'ers lose their QB in all of this though?

[Kraj 2.0]

I agree with Terry. Why does Denver signing Manning automatically mean Tebow has to go? Manning obviously only has a couple years left, if that. Has everyone forgotten that this injury was very close to ending his career? It's a ticking clock. Why bet all the marbles on him staying healthy when you can keep Tebow around for emergency situations and let him develop his QB skills under one of the best?

[baffled]

I would ship Tebow out because he's a distraction with all the Tebow Mania crap. Look for a QB in the middle rounds that you may be able to groom over the next 2, 3, 4 years and go from there. Preferably a right handed QB.

Just my opinion, but I view Tebow as a ridiculous fluke and think you can find another QB for about the same money and less hype.

I don't really give a shit though since I'm not a Denver fan.

[bigpeach]

It really is starting to look like the Broncos will sign Manning.