A week before the Super Bowl, a voicemail was left at the home of Peyton Mannings parents, Archie and Olivia Manning, by a woman identifying herself as Jamie Naughright. In the recording, which was played for The MMQB, the woman uses coarse and offensive language, some of it sexual in nature, to describe members of the Manning family and threatens to release all these documents related to Manning.
The content and language of the Manning voicemail was similar to that used by a woman claiming to be Naughright who for years phoned the sports desk at the Knoxville News Sentinel with accusations regarding Peyton Manning and Philip Fulmer and assertions that the newspaper had failed to adequately cover the training-room incident. John Adams, a columnist for the newspaper, wrote a story outlining the content and frequency of those calls.
It suddenly did become relevant because of the media publicity, Adams says of the papers decision to publish the story. This has been ongoing for the last two years at the News Sentinel.
It was the most vulgar wording imaginable, he says of the language used by the caller. You know, newsroom guys dont shrink from foul language, but this was just over the top. It was mainly about Manning and our failure to uncover the story, while in fact we covered this thing extensively when it happened.
Additionally, The MMQB has learned that a woman claiming to be Naughright was in talks with a major news outlet before the Daily News article and, as in the Manning voicemail, promised to release all the documents, though when pressed to do so on numerous occasions, she changed the topic of conversation, according to a member of the outlets editorial staff. The media organization vetted the source and was satisfied the woman on the other end of the phone was Naughright.
