Peyton Manning

#28
#28
onevol74 said:
He lost to Alabama in 1994 in Knoxville, his freshman year.

The answer to the question is ESPN.
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Correct me if I'm wrong (lol, like that won't happen) but didn't Alabama have to forfit that win because of an ineligible player? Oddly enough that player had the interception that stopped the last drive that could have won the game outright.
 
#29
#29
OrangePappy said:
Correct me if I'm wrong (lol, like that won't happen) but didn't Alabama have to forfit that win because of an ineligible player? Oddly enough that player had the interception that stopped the last drive that could have won the game outright.
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they had to forfeit the 93 tie
 
#30
#30
snake5040 said:
Can someone tell me why Peyton won the NFL MVP 3 times, but never won the heisman, that is a load of SH!T
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Because while Peyton Manning has been the MVP of the NFL three times (if not more), he was never the MVP of college football.

In 1994, he was a freshman who led his team to the Gator Bowl. You don't win the Heisman for that. They wouldn't give Herschel the Heisman as a freshman after he joined a 6-5 Georgia team and dragged it to the national championship.

In 1995, he had a real case. No way that team is 11-1 and No. 3 without him. He definitely deserved the award more than the guy they gave it to. But the best player in college football that year was Tommie Frazier, and he should have won.

In 1996, he played like crap in two losses and we lost to Memphis, which cost us a major bowl bid. He wasn't a Heisman candidate and didn't deserve to be one.

In 1997, he had a good year. But if you want to give the Heisman to the MVP of college football, then it should have gone to Ryan Leaf, who led an otherwise mediocre team to the Rose Bowl (hard to argue anything for Leaf, but again, this isn't the NFL. Wazzu is lucky to be in a bowl at all in '97 without him). If you want to give it to the player who had the most impact on a championship team, then they got the right guy. The only way Manning is a candidate is if you use the criteria they used for Ron Dayne in '99--a lifetime achievement award. Which I don't agree with, for Dayne or anyone else.
 
#31
#31
checkerboard_charly said:
I'm still trying to figure out what Peyton did to deserve the MVP this year. What a joke the NFL award system is. Matt Ryan deserved it over Manning. Or Peterson, Pennington, Turner or even Kerry Collins.

I love Peyton in Orange. But this is ridiculous.
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Good Call CBC! Dead on!
 
#32
#32
Quite clearly Kerry Collins deserves the MVP for taking a team to the playoffs that Vince Young also got to the playoffs.
 
#37
#37
no one deserved the award more than say albert hanynesworth? leader of the most ferious defense i have seen in a long while. Manning couldnt win his own division. no reason for him to win it this year. its ********.
 
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#40
VOLup2uous said:
Last time I checked he wasn't the only player on the team when they lost to the Gators....
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Exactly what I always thought. BUT, some people assume the QB wins all games and will lose them too. The team wins.

It's like the Indy newspaper this week when a writer stated if the Colts don't win tonight that Manning and Dungy are failures in the end. According to him the Colts are the Braves of the NFL over the last decade.

Why people are expecting a team to win the superbowl with the league's worst rushing record is a mystery to me!
 
#41
#41
Peyton just gave the colts the easiest 70 yard td in playoff history. That alone is why he is MVP worthy -- he will out think you.
 
#42
#42
Manning essentially played a perfect game against the Jaguars and the Colts still barely won. There's no way they go far in the playoffs.
 
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#45
kptvol said:
Manning essentially played a perfect game against the Jaguars and the Colts still barely won. There's no way they go far in the playoffs.
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You're right. They will only go so far on Manning's shoulders. The first D that can make him run for his life will win.
 
#47
#47
What Indy would give for a running game right now! Kicking and rushing probably will win it for SD. Good game.
 
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