Madonna is bigger than football

Read Time:1 Minute, 39 Second

madmikesamerica.com

Maybe it’s unfair but the two stories bigger than the Super Bowl lately were Madonna’s halftime show and whether or not Peyton Manning will stay in Indianapolis, go someplace else or retire.

Face it fellow football fans. Madonna is bigger than football. Screw her anyway.

With Eli Manning leading the Giants to victory over the Patriots, Peyton has no choice due to sibling rivalry to leave the Colts.

The stats are great but the fact is playoff and Super Bowl wins are the real measurement. Eli has two Super Bowl wins to Peyton’s one. Plus, Eli defeated Tom Brady twice in the biggest game. Peyton beat the Rex Grossman led Bears in his Super Bowl win. Whoopee!

Looking at the long term, Peyton has maybe two seasons left in him. Considering his neck injury and three surgeries to fix it, I don’t think he should even come back but come back he will, and there is no way that can be with the Colts.  Peyton Manning isn’t going to risk a career and life, or quality of life injury, to guide the bad Colts without him, and mediocre Colts with him when his time in the league is limited. Peyton’s ego will make him go where he thinks he has the players that can win a Super Bowl, that plus a coach that will shut up and let him run the offense.

So it could be the Jets or Arizona, or possibly Washington or even Denver.  Tim Tebow will pray over being a back up to Peyton Manning and either God or good sense will tell him it’s not a bad deal. But there is no way considering the Colts will have Andrew Luck ready to go and not having the burden of Peyton’s 28 million dollar salary wiping out any salary cap room.

In the end though, Peyton needs anther Super Bowl. Maybe two, so he an once again be the “bigger” brother. He can’t get there in Indianapolis.

About Post Author

Joe Hagstrom

Reformed Liberal now dedicated to saving world from Obamacare and Godless Atheists. Using MadMike's America to audition for high paying job with Fox News.
Happy
Happy
0 %
Sad
Sad
0 %
Excited
Excited
0 %
Sleepy
Sleepy
0 %
Angry
Angry
0 %
Surprise
Surprise
0 %
0 0 votes
Article Rating
Subscribe
Notify of

2 Comments
Newest
Oldest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Joe Hagstrom
12 years ago

Kurt Warner was the only successful QB I can think of that would willingly mentor anyone.

Brett Favre was indifferent at best to Aaron Rogers. Peyton’s longtime backup, Jim Sorge sucked.

I like Denver and the Jets for Peyton. Sanchez has just about worn out his welcome and with the mediocre offensive coordinator Brian Shottenheimer gone the Jets would be a good fit.

Bill Formby
12 years ago

Joe you make several good points. The first one, about Madonna, yeah, screw her. OK, I probably would.

As to Peyton Manning, that is a much bigger question. Having known several professional football players in similar situations (though not at his level of stardom) who had financial security I have asked them why not just hang it up and enjoy retire on the accolades of their accomplishments. To people of that level of competitiveness it isn’t about the money, except as an indicator of the value of their talent. It is a perception of where they stand among their peers. So, you are right about there being no immediate retirement for Peyton. Whether or not he wants to stick around and mentor Andrew Luck or move on to a team that has a realistic shot of getting to the Super Bowl is another question. Without Peyton the Colts have no chance of getting in the hunt for a couple of years. Their overall offense is aging and slowing down and they still don’t have a stellar defense. The question is, would he be able to add enough punch to Arizona or the Jets to put them at the level of Green Bay, New England, The Giants, or New Orleans. Personally I don’t think so. If he could hook up with a Baltimore or a San Francisco, most likely. Neither team had quite enough offensive punch to go the distance this year. I don’t think either of them would pay him what he would demand in salary and they probably would not want to interrupt their own quarterbacks’ progress, but Manning’s arm could have pulled either of those teams through this year.
It will be interesting to watch this soap opera play out this Spring.

madmikesamerica.com Previous post Mad Mike’s Blog Round-Up February 8, 2012
madmikesamerica.com Next post CNN Busts Roland Martin for Homophobic Twittering
2
0
Would love your thoughts, please comment.x
()
x