Peyton to Retire and Become an Owner??

[BigKen]

Reports are starting to surface that Peyton Manning may retire following this season and become a part owner of the Tennessee Titan. Titans owner Bud Adams died and his family holds the team in a trust. There are a number of billionaires who would like to join the NFL Owners Club, but many of them would not pass the NFL vetting process. Add Peyton Manning a part owner and the vetting issues go away.

John Elway has been linked to being a partner when the Broncos are sold, so Manning being a partner is not far fetched.

Think Kraft would sell a piece to the guy who made his $300M investment into a $2B Business??

 

[Sgthall999]

Reports are starting to surface that Peyton Manning may retire following this season and become a part owner of the Tennessee Titan. Titans owner Bud Adams died and his family holds the team in a trust. There are a number of billionaires who would like to join the NFL Owners Club, but many of them would not pass the NFL vetting process. Add Peyton Manning a part owner and the vetting issues go away.

John Elway has been linked to being a partner when the Broncos are sold, so Manning being a partner is not far fetched.

Think Kraft would sell a piece to the guy who made his $300M investment into a $2B Business??

Link on this sir?

 

[BigKen]

CBSSports.com

 

[BigKen]

Do any of you guys actually ever read anything other than posts in a sports blog?


Do you watch real news or the front page of a newspaper?


This story is the headline this morning on CBSSports.com.

 

[{+}Mother-Marge{+}]

....you sure it's not the 21 papa-johns pizza parlors.....?

 

[NEPatsfan]

Do any of you guys actually ever read anything other than posts in a sports blog?


Do you watch real news or the front page of a newspaper?


This story is the headline this morning on CBSSports.com.

Since they shut down the message boards I rarely visit their site. (And yes I used to read their articles and not just the message boards.)

 

[NEPatsfan]

And yet again people are reacting to what looks to be a speculation story based in nothing more than pure speculation.

From the article near the end.

Sources said he has not expressed an intent one way or the other to the Broncos -- “no one has any idea if this is it or not,” said one source close to him. “I don't even think he knows” -- but it would not come as a shock should he opt to retire after the playoffs.

 

[Sgthall999]

I only read stuff on the team page on ESPN. And NFL.com. Since in my opinion those are the two sport dedicated sites.

 

[Sgthall999]

And yet again people are reacting to what looks to be a speculation story based in nothing more than pure speculation.

From the article near the end.

Sources said he has not expressed an intent one way or the other to the Broncos -- “no one has any idea if this is it or not,” said one source close to him. “I don't even think he knows” -- but it would not come as a shock should he opt to retire after the playoffs.

Oh god. Not of these on this forum. Seen enough on the general board.

 

[TxHeat]

He can own more Papa John's franchises.

 

[Sgthall999]

I don't understand why he would rather be an owner than a coach? That man has too much football IQ to not utilize it.

 

[HammerDown]

Reports are starting to surface that Peyton Manning may retire following this season and become a part owner of the Tennessee Titan.

The current face of ownership is a hated man here. Tommy Smith is abusing the Titans like Frank McCourt did the Dodgers. He sits in Houston using us like an ATM machine. Peyton Manning should really think about trying to win a Super Bowl in Denver and if it's obviously not going to work out, come play a season for the Titans to endear himself to fans and then buy a majority stake and restore this franchise to the McNair/Eddie George glory days.

 

[Southieinnc]

The current face of ownership is a hated man here. Tommy Smith is abusing the Titans like Frank McCourt did the Dodgers. He sits in Houston using us like an ATM machine. Peyton Manning should really think about trying to win a Super Bowl in Denver and if it's obviously not going to work out, come play a season for the Titans to endear himself to fans and then buy a majority stake and restore this franchise to the McNair/Eddie George glory days.

Could we restore the Titans to: Patriots 59 - Titans 0 ????????

 

[Yankee Traveler]

Since they shut down the message boards I rarely visit their site. (And yes I used to read their articles and not just the message boards.)

Copy that, I haven't been back to cbs since.
Bastards.

 

[Yankee Traveler]

The current face of ownership is a hated man here. Tommy Smith is abusing the Titans like Frank McCourt did the Dodgers. He sits in Houston using us like an ATM machine. Peyton Manning should really think about trying to win a Super Bowl in Denver and if it's obviously not going to work out, come play a season for the Titans to endear himself to fans and then buy a majority stake and restore this franchise to the McNair/Eddie George glory days.

While a die hard Pats fan, it would be nice to go to a game at LP Field and see the home team win a few, and maybe even make the playoffs...and lose to NE.

 

[BigKen]

Hammer....My guess is that Peyton already has some favor in Tennessee because he did play his college ball at the Univ. of Tennessee. Peyton may have a net worth of $250M but you can't buy an NFL franchise on a promisary note. If he has a couple of billionaire buddies (Papa John?) and could be a minority owner ($150M) the NFL would jump to approve. Manning has a ton of "Good Will" in his portfolio.

 

[Edonidd]

I don't understand why he would rather be an owner than a coach? That man has too much football IQ to not utilize it.

As much as that man knows about Football, and as good as he is in front of the mic, the television providers may resort to an actual fistfight to resolve who gets to make him the highest paid broadcaster in the NFL. He would have his pick of being a studio host or an in game announcer. But yeah he could retire today and have an OC job tomorrow. Possibly even a head coaching job for someplace desperate.

But I think if most of us had the choice between working 100+ hour weeks as a coach, vs maybe 8 hour weeks as a broadcaster for the same price, vs not working at all just sitting in an owners box and most likely making even more money; I'm pretty sure where 99% of us would end up.

 

[cdumler7]

Peyton has a couple of bad games and man the rumors of retirement begin to swirl. A "source" says that he is weighing retirement and that he has spoke about ownership someday in the NFL. Hmmm yeah sounds like this story has a ton of credibility. I'm not saying that he wouldn't try to go about this someday but Peyton himself says that he weighs retirement and playing another year after every off season so that is not news for somebody to say "he doesn't know which way he is going after this season." This is just a writer looking for clicks. Notice how this has not even been discussed on the Bronco board because well it happens every season or after every bad game that these kind of articles pop up.

 

[Sgthall999]

Peyton has a couple of bad games and man the rumors of retirement begin to swirl. A "source" says that he is weighing retirement and that he has spoke about ownership someday in the NFL. Hmmm yeah sounds like this story has a ton of credibility. I'm not saying that he wouldn't try to go about this someday but Peyton himself says that he weighs retirement and playing another year after every off season so that is not news for somebody to say "he doesn't know which way he is going after this season." This is just a writer looking for clicks. Notice how this has not even been discussed on the Bronco board because well it happens every season or after every bad game that these kind of articles pop up.

Valid point. But please don't get me started about the utilization of Cbs as a credible or not credible source. When released the story about the ol Fanene story, Hammer and friends were quick to call Cbs a credible source.

 

[cdumler7]

Valid point. But please don't get me started about the utilization of Cbs as a credible or not credible source. When released the story about the ol Fanene story, Hammer and friends were quick to call Cbs a credible source.

Oh believe me I know they are all about the clicks. They could care less about actually researching anything of importance. My guess is his inside source is the cleaning lady for the Manning family and he asked what Peyton's thoughts are on retiring after the season and she responded with "He hasn't really said one way or the other."

I think they should make it illegal to write an article using "inside sources." If the person does not give you permission to print their name then you shouldn't have permission to print their words. Bring back some respect to the position of reporter and make them actually have to work to get news.