Champ or Choker? Inside Peyton Manning’s Complicated Legacy

February 1, 2016   ·   Brad Gagnon   ·   Jump to comments

Peyton Manning's legacy is a Facebook relationship status that is crying for attention. 
It's complicated. 
Manning is the NFL's all-time passing yardage and touchdown leader. On paper and empirically, he's undoubtedly one of the most dominant and productive players in football history. But he has also accumulated those numbers during an extremely long career—he's one of only two quarterbacks in NFL history with more than 250 starts—and in the midst of the most pass-happy era in league history. 
Further complicating Manning's prestige is the fact he and his teams have achieved substantially less in the playoffs and the Super Bowl, which is typically where legacies are established. 
Manning has won a Super Bowl—something only 30 other quarterbacks have done. And on Feb. 7, he'll officially become just the seventh quarterback ever to lead his team to four of them. Still, considering his incredible regular-season feats, some in the...

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