Is Peyton Manning Hiding Something?

After many Budweisers Peyton Manning has made his decision. If you haven’t heard, Manning is retired.

After playing 18 years in the National Football League with both the Indianapolis Colts and Denver Broncos, Peyton has decided to call it quits.

Through Manning’s 18 year career, Peyton managed to win two Super Bowl championships.

Did Manning make this decision to retire on his own? Or is Peyton just doing this to cover his behind?

In December of 2015, reports had came out that Manning was linked to using Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs) in a list from Al Jazeera.

Jazeera had listed many names that he said were linked to PEDs. Jazeera had names from the NFL like, Clay Matthews, Mike Neal, Julius Peppers, James Harrison, and Dustin Keller.

On the Major League Baseball side, Ryan Howard and Ryan Zimmerman. What do most of the names listed have that Manning does not?

All of those names are still playing their current sports and not retiring. Many people believed that Al Jazeera’s report were false because most athletes claimed that they would never use such a drug, well Manning declined that report and got defensive.

Manning’s former team, the Colts, even defended Peyton in Jazeera’s accusation of PEDs.

Let’s look at Peyton Manning in the last couple of years. Flash back to when he came back from his neck injury and started to break records with his new team, the Broncos.

Not many people can do that, did Manning do that because of his use of PEDs? What about the fact that this season Peyton couldn’t even throw a spiral for 30 yards in a few games, yet somehow manages to come back and lead the Broncos to a Super Bowl victory.

Is he hiding something that nobody will ever find out?

Going into the future, will the news of Manning being in the list of Al Jazeera’s PED list impact his legacy?

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