Did Peyton Manning Throw The Super Bowl?

NFL FanHouse:

Consider the evidence for the conspiracists: Manning was born and raised in New Orleans. And his father, Archie, is legendary around the Gulf Coast region. And the Mannings (which includes New York Giants quarterback Eli) knew as well as anybody before the game how much a world championship in New Orleans would brighten the souls of those still recovering from Hurricane Katrina. And Wayne, who possibly ran a shoddy route against Porter, also is from New Orleans.

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Comments

[mudshark12]

01:37 AM on 02/25/2010

What a crappy accusation! I watched that game and it was one of the best football games I've ever seen. The Saints just played a little better and they adapted to Manning's offense from the second quarter on.

[supertim]

12:02 AM on 02/25/2010

its called film study, and the new orleans saints secondary apparently does it very well, now thats a more reasonable explanation for the loss, as opposed to some sympathy on manning's part for his hometown

[VanillaCreme]

11:29 AM on 02/24/2010

Let's see; Manning comes to the Super Dome in 2003 and hammers the Saints 55 - 21, then in 2007 he beats them again 41 - 10. Why didn't he throw either one of those games, or at least take it easy on his hometown team? He decided he wanted to throw the Super Bowl? LOL.

[kamachanda]

06:26 AM on 02/24/2010

I don't believe Manning threw the Superbowl. I am suspicious that someone may have found another steroid that isn't detected by standard testing. Hopefully that's just my suspicious nature speaking and not the next sport's scandal.

[OrangeCatholic]

06:00 AM on 02/24/2010

Ha ha I totally called it. Glad I didn't watch. Not the first time a Super Bowl game has had some totally lame interceptions thrown in it.

[ReliefPitcher]

01:34 AM on 02/24/2010

This article is disgusting and the writer should be ashamed to smear Manning's name like this..I'm also disgusted by some of the comments below the article..the bottom line is the Colts aren't even playing in the Super Bowl without him..your QB(one of the best all time, that already gave you one title) almost puts you in a position to win it, makes one mistake, and you jump all over him and accuse him of throwing the game? Wow..if I were him I'd think about getting outta town..you guys make Yankees fans seem reasonable..

[termgirl]

01:32 AM on 02/24/2010

Threw the game? Please. The headline here is irresponsible. Is there a shred of hard evidence to suggest Peyton Manning did what is suggested here?

[Sandmanj]

04:53 AM on 02/24/2010

Nope.

[kenEBport]

12:36 AM on 02/24/2010

Stupid article to be sure.
the only line in this Terence Moore penned piece that one needs to read is this one,
"All I know is that truly great quarterbacks aren't intercepted in these situations."
Hah, what a laugh--guess he missed the NFC shampionship game just two weeks earlier, when Favre through a pass in a direction that even the weakest high school quarterback in the nation knows not to throw, and he had another Super Bowl appearance just a field goal kick away when he did it,...so much for Monday morning QB theories...........

[Apphouse50]

09:13 PM on 02/24/2010

Thank you! "Stupid" is exactly right.

What utter nonsense.

[cybolt]

12:34 AM on 02/24/2010

This is silly. The Colts ran that play throughout the season and even earlier in the game.

Def. Coord. Gregg Williams and MLB Vilma said after the game that they had scouted THIS specific play extremely well. They knew that if the Colts offense came out in a certain set on a speciic down and distance AND if the Saints shifted into a certain defensive set, Manning would run this given play.

Still Manning would have several receiver options. The Saints wanted to force it to just one and from watching film, they knew that if they showed coverage a certain way, Wayne would become the primary. Vilma recognized Indy's set and started yelling. Porter even described hearing him, knew EXACTLY where Wayne was going and easily jumped the route.

No big deal. It was simply a case of NO watching a LOT of film and being consumately prepared.

[foxisms]

12:30 AM on 02/24/2010

They think it was a conspiracy, albeit most of them think it was a matter of it being subconscious???
How does one conspire (which takes more than one person) "subconsciously"?
When did Professor Irwin Corey get back in town???

[Phalanxman]

12:20 AM on 02/24/2010

Say he did. What would be unsporting about that? Remember the Clint Eastwood movie, "Any Which Way But Loose?" Clint's character, Philo Beddoe, is a bare knuckle fighter who roams around from town to town looking for a good fight. When he comes to one small town to fight the local legend, Tank Murdoch, there is quite a crowd gathered to watch the old Tanker lay waste to another challenger. Beddoe eats him alive. But toward the end of the fight, he sees that he is doing more than just winning a few bucks and another victory -- he is killing a local legend, something that holds the little town together. He gives Murdoch the look, Murdoch uncorks the invited punch, and Beddoe goes down. Now what was unsporting about that?

[StephenBarrett]

11:50 PM on 02/23/2010

This is the reason i stopped coming here as much. Rarely do now. Trashy,silly stories and they prolly wont even post this.

[Shookones]

11:34 PM on 02/23/2010

I thought HP was in the News Business, not the Wacko Conspiracy Theory Business. Let's stick to factual content HP! We've got enough crazies running around in America...

[strangelet]

11:15 PM on 02/23/2010

Hey, it's just sports, but I think this article just about does it for me and Huffy Sports. It's an insult to Peyton, who is a terrific player and appears to be quite a decent person. It's an insult to the Saints defense, who took a big chance and got away with it. And it's an insult to common sense, since anyone who watched the game (and the replays) can see that Manning didn't "throw the ball to Porter"; rather, Porter jumped the pass with perfect timing. The Saints won that one. If they were to try it five times, probably Peyton would burn them on four tries, but they won this one.

I actually skimmed the article, which is thirty seconds I'll never get back, and can't decide if I'm more amazed by people who claim to be Colts fans suggesting that their QB threw the game; by the blogger, who is willing to publish an article that contains such baloney; or by the editors (if that's the right term) at Huffy, who apparently cannot distinguish Schlitz from Shinola.

[skantea]

11:02 PM on 02/23/2010

Peyton may not have known, but someone definitely told Porter to be on the look out for that play.
Just sayin'.

Lot'sa ways to cheat in these high tech times.

[strangelet]

11:17 PM on 02/23/2010

Yeah. Film.

[cybolt]

12:37 AM on 02/24/2010

I heard the guys on the defense describing it specifically.

For a description, see my post a little further UP the page.

[azxff]

11:48 PM on 02/23/2010

I don't suppose all that time Porter was a DB for the New England Patriots playing twice per year against the Colts had anything to do with his ability to "read" what Peyton was going to do....

Why after 43 years is it so hard to accept that the New Orleans Saints just might have put together a team good enough to beat the Colts and win a Superbowl on their own?