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The debate has been going on for years on whether Peyton Manning is better than Tom Brady. Brady won three Super Bowl rings with New England before Manning even won his first in 2007.
But today, Peyton has to be better than New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees, the NFL’s passing leader and Offensive Player of the Year in 2008.
Still, sports enthusiasts are pondering whether Peyton, 33, should be considered one of the greatest NFL quarterbacks of all-time if he leads the Indianapolis Colts to victory over the New Orleans Saints at Super Bowl XLIV today.
But when Peyton was asked to critique himself during Super Bowl interviews, he remarked: “I have limited athletic ability, so I have to use the cerebral stuff.”
Read this indepth Associated Press article to get an inside look into how Peyton compensates for his “limited athletic ability” to consistently lead the Colts to an NFL record 12 wins for seven consecutive seasons and their second Super Bowl appearance in three years.
New Orleans fans have a lot of respect and admiration for Peyton because he and his two brothers grew up in New Orleans following their father Archie Manning’s long career as the Saints’ legendary starting quarterback. Peyton and his bros excelled in football, basketball and baseball at a New Orleans high school before he and his youngest brother Eli left for college and NFL glory. Their parents and oldest brother, Cooper, continue to live in New Orleans, and Peyton and Eli returned to their hometown to volunteer when Hurricane Katrina tore apart New Orleans in 2005.
And when the NFL and NCAA wanted to pull the Super Bowl and Sugar Bowl out of New Orleans, Archie Manning successfully campaigned to enable the city to remain host for those big games.
New Orleans residents consider the Mannings as their Kennedys, but most will be pulling for their Saints to “limit” Peyton’s production in order to bring back New Orleans’ first Super Bowl trophy.

By Teneshia LaFaye
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Taylor Lautner, the werewolf hottie on Twilight’s New Moon, has been a longtime Minnesota Vikings fans, but he jumped on Indianapolis’ bandwagon and attended the Colts’ AFC Championship game.
Now, Taylor is preparing to play in the Celebrity Super Bowl on Saturday, the day before the actual Super Bowl between the Colts and the New Orleans Saints in South Florida on Sunday.


Other celebrities scheduled to play are Gossip Girl hottie Chace Crawford and Victoria Secret model Marissa Miller, who was recently voted the second most desirable women in the world. Former NFL quarterbacks Troy Aikman and Warren Moon will be the featured quarterbacks.
Taylor, 17, grew up in Michigan and never played sports. He trained in martial arts in which he was a world champion. He plays a jock in love with his real-life ex Taylor Swift’s character in upcoming movie, Valentine’s Day, which will be released on Feb. 12.

An avid professional football observer, Taylor gets the opportunity to play some football during Direct TV’s Celebrity Beach Bowl.

By Teneshia LaFaye
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Since his team already clinched its division and secured homefield advantage for the playoffs, first-year Indianapolis coach Jim Caldwell decided to play it safe and pull his starters in the third quarter of a seemingly meaningless game against the New York Jets to preserve his key men for the Colts’ run at the Super Bowl.
Sure, an NFL franchise’s ultimate prize is winning a Super Bowl, but a team does that every year.
It’s been nearly 40 years since a team went undefeated and won the Super Bowl. The 1972 Miami Dolphins, coached by Hall of Famer Don Shula, went 17-0 and won the Super Bowl, and every year living players get together for a toast when the last undefeated team finally loses a game to preserve Miami’s perfect season.
At 14-0 with two games remaining in the regular season, the Colts had a good chance to finish the season undefeated and battle to the Super Bowl to put the clincher on a perfect season by winning the Lombardi Trophy.
But Indy’s rookie coach thought better and relieved future Hall of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning and the rest of his starters with the team leading the New York Jets by only five points in the last five minutes remaining of the third quarter. The Jets won 29-15 to ruin the Colts’ perfect season.
Caldwell said going undefeated was always a “secondary goal” and he wanted to preserve his starters for a Super Bowl playoff run. The Colts already lost starters, such as receiver Anthony Gonzalez and defensive backs Marlin Jackson and Bob Sanders, to season-ending injuries.
By contrast, New England coach Bill Belichick didn’t pull his three-time Super Bowl winning slinger Tom Brady, who missed most of last season with a knee injury, until late in a 35-7 victory against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Brady could have been yanked much earlier because the Pats, who went 19-0 in 2007 before losing in the Super Bowl, led by at least three touchdowns for most of the game.
Manning has voiced his support for Caldwell’s call, but any armchair quarterback can see that the rookie coach didn’t make the best decision and regardless of whether the Colts end up winning a Super Bowl, the ‘72 Dolphins can still distinguish themselves from other Super Bowl winners because of their perfect championship season.

By Teneshia LaFaye
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