History Creator / PeytonManning

Manning's main focus following his retirement from playing (besides coaching his sons' football teams) has been his production company, fittingly called Omaha Productions. He now hosts the documentary series ''Peyton's Places'' for Creator/{{ESPN}}'s streaming service and the game show ''College Bowl'' for Creator/{{NBC}}, co-hosts a simulcast of ''Series/MondayNightFootball'' with brother Eli and an array of celebrity guest stars, and has produced a number of ''Places'' spinoffs with other sports stars along with numerous NFL-related events (including the upcoming retool of their Pro Bowl celebrations). That's not his only project, however; Manning is (and has been for decades) heavily involved with numerous charities in Indianapolis, so much so that the second-best children's hospital in the state, St Vincent's Children's Hospital[[note]]which is only the second-best in the state because Indiana University's Riley Hospital for Children exists; it's still a pediatric Level I trauma center and one of the best pediatric hospitals in the country[[/note]], was renamed Peyton Manning Children's Hospital at St Vincent in 2007.

Manning's main focus following his retirement from playing (besides coaching his sons' football teams) has been his production company, fittingly called Omaha Productions. He now hosts the documentary series ''Peyton's Places'' for Creator/{{ESPN}}'s streaming service and the game show ''College Bowl'' for Creator/{{NBC}}, co-hosts a simulcast of ''Series/MondayNightFootball'' with brother Eli and an array of celebrity guest stars, and has produced a number of ''Places'' spinoffs with other sports stars along with numerous NFL-related events (including the upcoming retool of their Pro Bowl celebrations). That's not his only project, however; Manning is (and has been for decades) heavily involved with numerous charities in Indianapolis, so much so that the second-best children's hospital in the state, St Vincent's Children's Hospital[[note]]which is only the second-best in the state because Indiana University's Riley Hospital for Children exists; it's still one of the best in the country[[/note]], was renamed Peyton Manning Children's Hospital at St Vincent in 2007.

->”''That guy's prettty good...[[SelfDemonstratingArticle if you like...6-5, 230-pound quarterbacks. Laser, rocket arm]].''"
-->--'''Peyton Manning''', playing a [[ClarkKenting Peyton Manning fan]] for a Sprint NFL Mobile commercial.

Manning's main focus following his retirement from playing (besides coaching his sons' football teams) has been his production company, fittingly called Omaha Productions. He now hosts the documentary series ''Peyton's Places'' for Creator/{{ESPN}}'s streaming service and the game show ''College Bowl'' for Creator/{{NBC}}, co-hosts a simulcast of ''Series/MondayNightFootball'' with brother Eli and an array of celebrity guest stars, and has produced a number of ''Places'' spinoffs with other sports stars along with numerous NFL-related events (including the upcoming retool of their Pro Bowl celebrations). That's not his only project, however; Manning is (and has been for decades) heavily involved with numerous charities in Indianapolis, so much so that the second-best children's hospital in the state, St Vincent's Children's Hospital[[note]]which is only the second-best in the state because Indiana University's Riley Hospital for Children exists[[/note]], was renamed Peyton Manning Children's Hospital at St Vincent in 2007.

In addition to his play on the field, Manning was one of the most popular players off the field as well. He is arguably more famous for the sheer number of endorsements and commercials he filmed for a wide variety of products; even many years into retirement, he continues to regularly show up in new ads that play well outside of the NFL season, usually making some [[SelfDeprecation jokes about his voice, the size of his forehead, and his postseason woes]].[[note]]Sports-commentary comic strip Tank [=McNamara=] did a week-long story of Manning being confined to a rehab clinic for his addiction to endorsements - where his need to endorse ''something'' became so great that he pleaded with the employees to let him endorse the clinic itself.[[/note]] He's one of the few athletes to host ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' (where he was in the TropeNamer sketch for EveryYearTheyFizzleOut, a comment directed towards... Peyton Manning), made a guest appearance on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', was on the final ''[[Creator/DavidLetterman Late Show With David Letterman]]'' as one of the celebrity presenters of the show's final Top 10 List. (Manning was Letterman's favorite player for his time with Letterman's hometown Colts.) His voice acting has continued with a significant supporting role in the animated film ''WesternAnimation/{{Ferdinand}}''. He can next be seen in the miniseries ''Series/TheSantaClauses'' as himself.

Manning's main focus following his retirement from playing (besides coaching his sons' football teams) has been his production company, fittingly called Omaha Productions. He now hosts the documentary series ''Peyton's Places'' for Creator/{{ESPN}}'s streaming service and the game show ''College Bowl'' for Creator/{{NBC}}, co-hosts a simulcast of ''Series/MondayNightFootball'' with brother Eli and an array of celebrity guest stars, and has produced a number of ''Places'' spinoffs with other sports stars along with numerous NFL-related events (including the upcoming retool of their Pro Bowl celebrations). That's not his only project, however; Manning is (and has been for decades) heavily involved with numerous charities in Indianapolis, so much so that the second-best children's hospital in the state, St Vincent's Children's Hospital[[note]]which is only the second-best in the state because Indiana University's Riley Hospital for Children exists[[/note]], was renamed Peyton Manning Children's Hospital in 2007.

Manning's main focus following his retirement from playing (besides coaching his sons' football teams) has been his production company, fittingly called Omaha Productions. He now hosts the documentary series ''Peyton's Places'' for Creator/{{ESPN}}'s streaming service and the game show ''College Bowl'' for Creator/{{NBC}}, co-hosts a simulcast of ''Series/MondayNightFootball'' with brother Eli and an array of celebrity guest stars, and has produced a number of ''Places'' spinoffs with other sports stars along with numerous NFL-related events (including the upcoming retool of their Pro Bowl celebrations).

Manning's main focus following his retirement from playing (besides coaching his sons' football teams) has been his production company, fittingly called Omaha Productions. He now hosts the documentary series ''Peyton's Places'' for Creator/{{ESPN}}'s streaming service and the game show ''College Bowl'' for Creator/{{NBC}}, co-hosts a simulcast of ''Series/MondayNightFootball'' with brother Eli and an array of celebrity guest stars, and has produced a number of ''Places'' spinoffs with other sports stars along with numerous NFL-related events (including the upcoming retool of their Pro Bowl celebrations).

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!!Tropes related to his works:

* AdamWesting: Fond of this in his various media appearances and endorsements, either [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderizing]] or [[SubvertedTrope subverting]] his NiceGuy persona. Since he's gone from playing NFL games to professionally analyzing them on various networks and his own podcast, he (or [[Creator/MilesTeller actors parodying him]]) also started making guest appearances on shows commenting [[Series/SaturdayNightLive anything]] [[Series/EmilyInParis other]] [[Series/JimmyKimmelLive than]] football games in flawless football lingo.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Manning is one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time, but while his stats are better, his overall record, especially in the playoffs, is overshadowed by Creator/TomBrady, who has won seven of ten Super Bowls (and counting), while Manning only won two of four. Even more so by Manning's Broncos being totally blown out by the Seahawks in Super Bowl XLVIII, and then the Patriots defeating the Seahawks in Super Bowl XLIX. Then after Manning won Super Bowl 50 in a relatively lackluster performance, the Patriots won Super Bowl LI in an incredible MiracleRally against the Atlanta Falcons. Interestingly in their head-to-head records, Manning has the edge in the playoffs, winning 3 of their 5 meetings (his two losses to Brady in the playoffs both came in Foxborough while his wins were one in Indianapolis and two in Denver), though his overall record against them is much worse, only going 3-9 in regular season games against Brady and the Patriots.
** Peyton himself is this trope to his brother Eli, who himself is regarded as a great quarterback among the likes of Drew Brees, his brother Peyton, and Ben Roethlisberger and Phillip Rivers (his draft classmates in the 2004 draft), due to leading an underdog New York Giants squad to upset victories over Tom Brady and the New England Patriots ''twice''--one of them being the famous 18-1 game Super Bowl XLII--but gets shafted due to his comparatively ordinary regular season stats. In fact, before Super Bowl 50, Eli could always claim to having won two Super Bowls and Super Bowl [=MVPs=], but with the Broncos' victory in Super Bowl 50, Eli and Peyton now have two Super Bowls...and Peyton holds the records.
* CelebrityEndorsement: The football equivalent of Michael Jordan when it comes to endorsements. After he became an endorser for Papa John's Pizza in 2012, Manning would own several Papa John's restaurants in Colorado. He still regularly films new commercials for Nationwide insurance, and also had lucrative deals with [=DirecTV=], Gatorade, and [=MasterCard=], to name but a few.
* CloudCuckoolander: His persona in commercials is best described as a Golden Retriever puppy trapped in human form: happy, excited, and enthusiastic to the point of annoyance.
* CrossingTheBurntBridge: Subverted. After Manning left the Colts to join the Denver Broncos, the two teams eventually met at a Colts home game. Rather than being booed, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caEst_9I3Mw Manning was given a standing ovation by Colts fans]], including showing a video package which ended with a graphic reading "THANKS PEYTON." The Colts later erected a statue of Manning outside their stadium soon after his retirement.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Manning's Colts teams were mostly geared around providing good receivers for him to throw to and blockers to keep the defense away from him. The Colts were high scorers but tended to fizzle in the playoffs, proving the old adage of "Offense wins games, but defense wins championships". Even the Colts' Super Bowl championship in 2006 was at least partly a result of their defense stepping up at the right time (they played unusually well in the wild-card and divisional rounds, as well as the Super Bowl, and the play that sealed the Colts victory against [[TheRival the Patriots]] in the conference championship was an interception of a Tom Brady pass with seconds to go). The Broncos were also more offense-oriented when he first arrived, but after their embarrassing 43-8 loss to the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XLVIII, the team was reworked to be better on defense, and they won two years later against the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl 50.
* EveryYearTheyFizzleOut: The Trope Namer, after Peyton's ''SNL'' skit that lampshaded Manning's infamous tendency of this trope before his first Super Bowl win. While his regular season accomplishments are legendary, Manning has a mediocre playoff record (14-13, including nine one-and-dones, the most for a starting quarterback), mainly from the trope codifying in the first half of his career while Tom Brady racked up titles in New England. His two Super Bowl wins have erased most of this stigma by this point.
* FreezeFrameBonus: Manning set the 16-game single-season record for passing yards in the 2013 season. His last pass of the year, which put him over by a single yard, went sideways to a receiver on the boundary. Under NFL rules, if it went backwards, it wouldn't count as a "pass" and therefore Drew Brees would retain the record. NFL fans have spent significant amounts of time reviewing this otherwise routine play and arguing over this point.
* TheRival: To the New England Patriots in general and Creator/TomBrady specifically. He continued to tease both of them for their various scandals well after his retirement.
* SelfDeprecation: He won Super Bowl 50 with the Broncos, but he was visibly hindered by injuries and helped by a historically-good defense. He's made many public jokes about being "carried" to that title.
* TheBandMinusTheFace: Oddly enough, the Tennessee Volunteers won the national championship the year ''after'' he went pro, behind a far less heralded and less successful quarterback.[[note]]Tee Martin, who managed a fifth-round pick in 2000 - as one of the six quarterbacks selected before Brady (sixth-round, number 199 overall) - and a few years in the NFL.[[/note]]
* VetinariJobSecurity: This happened to the Colts in 2011, as Manning's backups, Kerry Collins (who came out of retirement), Curtis Painter, and Dan Orlovsky, struggled to replicate Manning's offense, and combined with a very difficult schedule (the AFC South played the AFC North and NFC South that year), the Colts finished 2-14, leading to jokes and discussions that Peyton ''was'' the 2011 NFL MVP without playing a game. (Ironically, the only quarterback of the three who ''won'' any games was Orlovsky... previously best known for being the quarterback of a Detroit Lions team that went winless for the whole season.)
-->"Fellas, if #18 goes down, we're fucked. And we don't practice ''fucked''." -- '''Tom Moore''', Colts offensive coordinator, on why Manning's backups don't receive snaps during practice
** Subverted in the 2015 season, in which the defensive-oriented Broncos finished 5-2 while Manning sat out while recovering from his foot injury. The Broncos would go on to win Super Bowl 50, despite Manning's offense being awful that night (his offense gained the fewest yards for a Super Bowl champion).
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: As noted in TheRival above, he and Tom Brady fought to be the best QB in the AFC for years. However, their teams (the Patriots and Colts) were split up in the 2002 NFL realignment, meaning they could have spent most of their careers fighting for the same division title. Brady and the Patriots only played one season against the Colts as divisional opponents, going 2-0. For a lot of years, the Pats looked like Peyton's kryptonite -- in his first seven years in Indy, he only won two games of eleven meetings, dating back to when Drew Bledsoe was playing, and when Brady took over, the Pats beat the Colts four times in the regular season and twice (in humiliating fashion) in the playoffs. It's speculated that having an extra game (and a guaranteed home game) would have made the initial matchup look more even.

* AdamWesting: Fond of this in his various media appearances and endorsements, either [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderizing]] or [[SubvertedTrope subverting]] his NiceGuy persona.