Indianapolis Colts’ Peyton Manning vs. New England Patriots’ Tom Brady

December 11, 2010   ·   John B. Hafford   ·   Jump to comments

Peyton Manning.  Tom Brady.  Who is better?  The question is as weighty and confounding as the riddle of the sphinx. 
Google "Peyton Manning" and you get a plethora of awards he earned at Tennessee as the starting QB. Google "Tom Brady" and you get a vociferous chorus of numbers crunching that that masks the unlikelihood of a collegiate bench warmer making it in the NFL.
 
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When Peyton was a boy, he grew up playing football as part of ensemble cast: older brother Cooper was a high school football star and younger brother Eli was the always eager tadpole brother wanting to play every game with his older brothers.  Of these three, Peyton would become the big college star at Tennessee.  
He began his college football career as a freshman third-string quarterback behind Todd Helton and Jerry Colquitt.  Helton and Colquitt were taken out of the Mississippi State game and Manning was inserted, finishing th...

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