Clash of the Titans: Who’s Better, Tom Brady or Peyton Manning?

November 20, 2010   ·   Jeremy Alpert   ·   Jump to comments

Clash of the Titans

Growing up just outside of Chicago in the late 1970s, I was part of an entire generation of children who would fall asleep at night to the recurrent fantasy of one day becoming the next Walter Payton. 
I would dream of charging my way to a goal line stacked with bucktoothed defenders, then finding the ugliest SOB I could find so that I could look him straight in the eye just before vaulting myself up over the pile into the end zone for the game-winning touchdown. 
That’s just the way it was for boys that age.  We fantasized we were our favorite star athlete doing things only a handful of people in the world could do.  Sure, I could have dreamt I was Terry Bradshaw tossing up four TDs in the Super Bowl or Steve Largent making one of his many miraculous catches or maybe even Mean Joe Greene busting through the line to flatten an oncoming running back…but I didn’t, because Payton was my guy. 
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