{"id":1910,"date":"2016-03-06T08:56:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T13:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/2016\/03\/06\/report-peyton-manning-to-retire-monday\/"},"modified":"2016-12-20T15:16:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T20:16:56","slug":"report-peyton-manning-to-retire-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/2016\/03\/06\/report-peyton-manning-to-retire-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Peyton Manning to retire Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Peyton Manning<\/b> will announce his retirement from the NFL on Monday, according to a report from ESPN&#8217;s Chris Mortensen.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Filed to ESPN: Five-time NFL MVP Peyton Manning will announce his retirement Monday in Denver per source familiar with the QB&#39;s decision<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Mortensen (@mortreport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mortreport\/status\/706450133232152577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Broncos&#39; Peyton Manning to announce retirement in news conference Monday, source tells <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mortreport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mortreport<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8ZpFndLJd7\">pic.twitter.com\/8ZpFndLJd7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportsCenter\/status\/706453865206571008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">For my money, Peyton Manning was the best regular season quarterback I ever saw. I&#39;ll take him over anybody from September to December.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mike Greenberg (@Espngreeny) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Espngreeny\/status\/706472816376418304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Reports first surfaced of his pending retirement from Woody Paige <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volnation.com\/forum\/tennessee-vols-football\/253924-woody-paige-manning-retire.html\">about a week ago<\/a>, but Manning&#8217;s agent indicated afterward that the legendary quarterback <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/2016\/03\/02\/peyton-manning-wants-to-keep-playing-according-to-report\/\">would still like to play<\/a>, given the right circumstances.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Manning steps away from football as Super Bowl 50 champion and one of the greatest to ever play the game.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 9:20 AM<\/b>: The Broncos appear to be confirming the report via Twitter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you, Peyton, and congratulations on your magnificent 18-year NFL career! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YdMt19tQ2i\">https:\/\/t.co\/YdMt19tQ2i<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jYDXpMmlUA\">pic.twitter.com\/jYDXpMmlUA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Denver Broncos (@Broncos) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Broncos\/status\/706484424834195457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Forum discussion:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.volnation.com\/forum\/tennessee-vols-football\/254164-peyton-announce-retirement-monday.html\"><b>Peyton to announce retirement Monday<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peyton Manning will announce his retirement from the NFL on Monday, according to a report from ESPN&#8217;s Chris Mortensen.&nbsp; Filed to ESPN: Five-time NFL MVP Peyton Manning will announce his retirement Monday in Denver per source familiar with the QB&#39;s decision &mdash; Chris Mortensen (@mortreport) March 6, 2016 BREAKING: Broncos&#39; Peyton Manning to announce retirement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[55],"tags":[207],"class_list":["post-1910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-former-football-vols","tag-peyton-manning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1910"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1923,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions\/1923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}