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LedgerDAVIDSON • WILLIAMSON • SUMNER • CHEATHAM • RUTHERFORD WILSON ROBERTSON • MAURY • DICKSON • MONTGOMERY • KNOX • ANDERSON •BLOUNT •SEVIER | FORMERLY WESTVIEW SINCE 1978 It’s time for Peyton to call it a career Age, injuries conspire against an all-time great Analysis by David Climer begins on page 2 AP Photo/Steven Senne Newsmakers ............................................6 More inside: Public Notices ........................7-10, 16–22 Find Public Notices Capitol Hill ...............................................3 Community Calendar ..........................14 inside & online: Career Corner ..........................................3 Crossword...............................................15 www.TNLedger.com News Briefs ..............................................4 Behind the Wheel .................................23 Page 2 www.TNLedger.com/Knoxville JANUARY 15 – 21, 2016 Current season his worst ever It’s been a rst-ballot Hall of Fame career, but ... No amount of lm he is indeed innocent. Baseball stars Ryan study has prepared Howard and Ryan Zimmerman, whose Peyton Manning for names surfaced in the same Al Jazeera this. report, have both led suits, each claiming He enters the NFL one count of libel and one count of Out of postseason uncertain invasion of privacy. Left Field about his football But that’s a tricky one for Manning. By DAVID CLIMER future. After 18 years A lawsuit would require him and as a pro and at the age others, including his wife, to give sworn of 39, his body is breaking down and his testimony in depositions. at isn’t skills are slipping. Passes he once made something Manning wants to do, based with ease now wobble and sail o target. on past experience. He is still one of the best quarterbacks In May 2002, former University of in the league, but he now wins games Tennessee trainer Jamie Ann Naughright more with his brain and his experience sued Manning, his father Archie and than with his arm. And he knows it. ghost writer John Underwood for So is this it? Almost two decades after statements attributed to Manning in the completing a storied college career at the book, “Manning: A Father, His Sons, and University of Tennessee, is it time for a Football Legacy.’’ Manning to walk away? In the book, Manning characterized I think so. e spirit is willing but the Naughright as having “a vulgar mouth.” blunt force trauma of too many savage In March 2003, Manning spent two hits over too many NFL seasons has taken days giving a deposition, answering a toll. Time waits for no quarterback, not Eric Bakke via AP questions that ranged from his interaction even Peyton Manning. Peyton Manning is ghting age, injury and the accusation that he used human growth hormone in 2011 with a coach in high school to an alleged He recently told reporters in Denver while recovering from neck surgery. The former Vol holds the NFL record for passing yards with 71,940. “mooning” incident involving Naughright that he has contemplated his future. “I’d when Manning was a junior at UT. my theme all year: Just keep being a pro. Manning has vehemently denied the be lying if I said I’m not thinking about at lawsuit ultimately was settled I’ve been through a lot of stu .” report. that,” he said. But he plans to stick with out of court for an undisclosed amount. at’s an understatement. Still, the report puts NFL his customary process of waiting until But the experience of being grilled by Last month, Al Jazeera reported that headquarters in an awkward position. March to make the call. a prosecution attorney in a two-day Guyer Institute, an anti-aging clinic Commissioner Roger Goodell spent at’s been his approach in recent deposition probably makes Manning in Indianapolis, supplied Manning months and hundreds of thousands years. It allows him to get a little distance reluctant to le a defamation lawsuit. with HGH four years ago. At the of dollars in pursuit of another high- from the previous season, taking some of For someone who appears so time, Manning was recovering from pro le quarterback, Tom Brady, in the the emotion out of the decision. open and accessible in commercials neck surgery. HGH is considered a De ategate matter. Should Manning get Just the same, I’m betting Manning and endorsement appearances, he is performance enhancing drug and is on a the same kind of scrutiny? will know what next year holds when he notoriously private when it comes to list of banned substances for NFL players. It’s a tough call. ere are no walks o the eld for the nal time in his personal life. Likewise, he always has According to the report, Manning indications Manning ever failed a drug the postseason, whether that is the AFC shielded his wife from public scrutiny. obtained HGH through packages sent test. And since almost ve years have semi nal or the Super Bowl. It remains to be seen what, if anything, to his wife, Ashley Manning. e key passed since the report alleges he took is isn’t about Xs and Os, about the league o ce will do about the report. informant in the Al Jazeera report is HGH, it would be di cult to nd reading your keys and sensing that a safety No doubt, Manning hopes the HGH Charlie Sly, a former unpaid intern at corroborating evidence. blitz is coming. is is a decision you story goes away and the NFL chooses not Guyer Institute. Sly has since recanted his Some have wondered why Manning make with your gut. to pursue it. accusations against Manning. doesn’t sue Al Jazeera for defamation if In many ways, it is a similar situation to MANNING >> PAGE 24 the one Manning faced in January 1997. He had just quarterbacked the Vols to a 10-2 season and a No. 9 national ranking. Peyton’s post-career place? Many options e deadline for underclassmen to declare At the age of 39 and after 18 seasons in around the game he loves while also main- chises, all of which are located in Colorado. for the NFL draft was approaching, and the NFL, Peyton Manning is approaching a taining visibility, which would enhance his NFL team front of ce: This appears to he had to decide if he would skip his crossroads. What does the future hold for worth as an endorser of such products as be the most likely landing spot for Manning senior season or not. him? Here are the most likely possibilities: Buick, Gatorade, Nationwide, DirecTV and when his playing days are over. During Papa John’s. In typical Manning fashion, he got out Continue playing: Despite growing injury his four seasons in Denver, Manning has a pad and a pen and listed the pros and concerns (a torn plantar fascia in his left Coaching: Driven and detail-oriented, observed how Hall of Fame quarterback foot kept him out of six games this sea- Manning is an unquestioned student of the John Elway has evolved into a successful cons of going pro. Ultimately, he went son), Manning might want to play at least game. Because of that, he might be com- NFL executive as executive vice president with his gut and returned for one more one more season. He is on a team that has pelled to try his hand at coaching on one for football operations and general manager season of college ball. a strong defense so he no longer has to level or another. Many Tennessee Vols fans for the Broncos. But he was 20 years old back then put up huge offensive numbers in order to are smitten with the idea he might one day Although some believe Manning could and secure with the knowledge the NFL win, unlike the situation during most of his return to his alma mater as an assistant transition seamlessly from the eld to a top would still be there in a year. Injuries were pro career. coach or even head coach. front-of ce position, he likely would need a not a factor. His best football was ahead On top of that, Manning is incredibly This, though, is an unlikely turn in his period of apprenticeship. Elway spent 13 of him. at’s no longer the case. In driven and competitive. There is no other career path for Manning. Although he has years working in private business and was recent months, Manning has been forced setting where he will face the kinds of daily made occasional references to coaching, co-owner of an Arena Football League team challenges that he confronts in the NFL. those close to him say he has never really before joining the Broncos as an executive. to confront his football mortality. Like most great athletes, he will have trou- considered it a viable option, with the pos- If this is the end, it’s been a remarkable The best situation would be for Manning ble stepping away. It is what kept all-time sible exception of coaching youth football. to join an organization where he could work career, capped by a season of change and greats like Johnny Unitas, Joe Montana and Seldom do ultra-successful players make it under a proven general manager for a cou- challenges. e Broncos hired a new head Brett Favre in the game after their skills as college or NFL coaches.