Think about it: basketball Hall of Famer, NBA champion, Defensive Player of the Year, nine-time All-Star, one of the great point guards of all time, legendary nickname (The Glove) … and more touchdown passes than anyone in NFL history, even Brett Favre. And, it appears, Peyton Manning.
That’s right. Breaking news on KOMO-TV, Seattle on Sunday night:
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Payton (with an A, and from a different sport, among other dissimilarities) clearly wasted little time posting it to his Instagram and Twitter accounts. Good thing he did, too; otherwise, many would have taken it as an internet hoax, a clever Photoshop or some other technological fakery.
Instead, it was just your run-of-the-mill newsroom deadline goof, in the city where he’s the Payton who immediately comes to the minds of still-suffering Sonics lovers, not some quarterback who took a beating by the local NFL franchise in last year’s Super Bowl.
To be fair, though, both Payton and Peyton have just one ring and probably should have more.
