Peyton Manning on hanging with Joe Namath, recreating the Immaculate Reception, and Elvis Presley's football league

The Peter King Podcast

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4.4 • 872 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Peter King chats with the great Peyton Manning about his upcoming project "Peyton's Places" to celebrate the NFL's 100th season, and what the future holds. -Peter riffs on the possibility of an 18-game season, CBA negotiations, and how quickly the new QBs can get up to speed (1:45) -How a $50k investment back in the late 1920's led to the boom of the NFL (10:00) -The origin behind the idea for "Peyton's Places", and spending time in a stadium that saw the first shotgun snap, a player running the wrong way, the first alley-oop pass, and where Dirty Harry was filmed (12:10) -Watching back Super Bowl III with Joe Namath and trying on his old fur coat (13:15) and recreating the Immaculate Reception (14:30) -Learning about Elvis Presley's full-blown football fanaticism, his own football league, and offensive playbook (18:05) -What lies ahead for Peyton, whether he's been approached by NFL teams to run a franchise, and why he hates the word retirement (21:00) -Why he loves watching Patrick Mahomes and why the Chiefs QB reminds him of John Elway (24:30) -Finally, an update on Peter's Training Camp Tour (30:30)

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Peter King Podcast, and it's a Peter King Podcast in a new space. It's the formidable NBC Sports
0:16.8	podcast space. So I'm very, very happy to be here and in a few minutes I'll have a special guest to help me kick off my
0:24.5	podcast launch here at NBC Sports and that's Peyton Manning. Stay tuned for that.
0:30.8	You know I never thought I would hear Peyton Manning wax eloquently on Elvis Presley
0:36.5	but right here in this podcast you're gonna hear it here's a little snippet
0:41.8	What was unique about him was that he kind of had his own football league.
0:47.0	He had a little touch football league, Peter, with his buddies, full speed blocking, but it was touch and and he had these plays that he drew up and
0:57.0	they were kind of they were good plays Peter they had some crossing routes and kind of had some maybe a version of a pick play if you will.
1:07.0	Now in my first podcast I'm going to explain why Peyton Manning is talking about Elvis Presley.
1:14.0	He's involved in a unique new venture with NFL films and ESPN called Payton's places.
1:22.0	In a couple of weeks, they're going to begin dropping a 30
1:25.7	episode series about a unique look at pro football history and one of those pieces
1:31.8	is Payton Manning in Graceland talking about Elvis the football fan.
1:37.0	So that'll be cool. You'll hear from Peyton very soon.
1:41.0	Now, a few things before we get started. I want to tell you about how
1:45.8	this podcast is going to work. Each week, most weeks, I'm getting riff a little bit
1:51.3	on the news of the week,
1:53.8	maybe give you three or four opinions
1:56.0	on what's going on in the game of pro football
1:59.9	as it enters its 100th season.
2:03.5	And also most weeks I'm gonna have on a special guest
2:07.6	that week, maybe even two.
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