News from an Alternate Universe

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Meanwhile, in a footnote to that 1998 draft, Peyton Manning, the mostly forgotten first overall pick of the Indianapolis Colts, was laid off from his job at Patchy’s Tire Depot in rural Denham Springs Louisiana, after being written up a fifth time for showing up to work late and intoxicated. “It’s total bullshite,” Manning said, while waiting on line to file unemployment paperwork. “My boss was a Nazi dickhead. Just like those a-holes at Indy when I went there. All the practice, all the meetings, watching all that fricking film. Man, screw that. “

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