Two of the NFL's top quarterbacks, New England's Tom Brady, left, and Denver's Peyton Manning, right, will clash this Sunday.
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NEW ORLEANS — The “Peyton vs. Brady” NFL quarterback case has been argued 14 times previously at various levels of the NFL judicial system, and Archie Manning, a friend of the court, has some advice for a nation of Supreme Court watchers: Sit back and enjoy.
“Honestly, maybe it’s just the parent in me, but I don’t enjoy all the hoopla about a Peyton [Manning]-[Tom] Brady matchup,” said Manning, patriarch of the NFL’s version of Duck Dynasty. “I tried to teach my kids [Peyton and Eli] that it’s not an individual game, it’s a team game. I know we have so much media now — we have so many writers and radio and TV — and it makes a good conversation.
“I think Peyton said it the other day, and I know Tom is the same way — it’s the Patriots and the Broncos. If you go out and just try to outperform another quarterback, that’s not the way the game is structured.”
The stakes couldn’t be higher for the two iconic, future Hall of Fame quarterbacks who will stare down each other in the AFC Championship Game Sunday in Denver. Brady has gotten the best of Peyton 10 times in their previous 14 meetings, but Archie said he knows from bitter experience, playing with the sad-sack Saints in the 1970s, that quarterbacks don’t always determine the outcome.
By Peter Finney Jr.
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