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Denver Broncos quarterback and painfully over-the-hill turkey-chucker Peyton Manning is in the news again a week after his team won the Super Bowl, and it’s for all the wrong reasons.
What is likely to be the end of Peyton Manning’s football career is being accompanied by unsavory off-the-field headlines concerning alleged use of human growth hormone and, now, the details of a decades-old sexual assault that allegedly occurred when he was a student at the University of Tennessee.
The only measly thing ESPN has posted on the Manning sexual assault case/cover-up thus far is this bush league article which states that Manning was named in the report.
However, Naughright said Manning “sat on her face” while she was assessing the extent of an injury. As best I can tell, The Tennessean didn’t report the Manning piece of the suit until yesterday afternoon.
One: The New York Daily News on Saturday republished, with biting commentary, a 74-page complaint written by lawyers of Jamie Naughright in a defamation lawsuit the former Tennessee trainer filed in 2003 against Manning, his dad Archie, and John Underwood, the ghostwriter of their book, “Manning: A Father, His Sons and a Football Legacy”. “I am not aware of how that suit was settled or what the outcome of the suit was, and I haven’t read anything about that”. And in spite of his inclusion in the lawsuit, the mainstream power machine – the networks, the National Football League itself, the media – is reluctant or outright unwilling to add Manning to a list that in the past it has been so unworried about naming.
It was not until 2003, according to the documents, that the specific nature of what Manning is now being accused of doing came to light, seven years after the original affidavit and more than a year into this lawsuit. Did you say anything or scream or screech as you felt this on the top of your head?
Manning said at the time it was a prank intended for another athlete. “She talked “gutter” talk”. King opening with a shocking statement saying that USA Today received the court documents about the alleged assault thirteen years ago but decided not to publish it because “sexual-assault scandal, cover up, and smear campaign of the victim that was so deep, so widespread and so ugly that it would’ve rocked the American sports world to its core”. Perhaps they made a rash decision holding a grudge over the trouble he faced; prominent Colts beat writer Bob Kravitz recently called Peyton “one of the great grudge-holders I’ve ever seen”.
“Then one day I was in the training room and a track athlete I knew made some off-color remark that I felt deserved a colorful (i.e., Cooper-like) response”.
Peyton Manning might be regretting his choice of words in a 2001 book.
Naughright reached a settlement in 1997, but sued Manning 2002 after he wrote about the incident in a book. The book also recounted what was referred to as “the mooning incident”.
However, in documents from the original lawsuit in 1996 revealed by Sports Illustrated, there is no mention of Manning placing any of his body parts on Naughright’s face. However, Peyton denied disliking her in testimony of his own.
The report that says that the Denver Broncos haven’t started contract negotiations with pending free agent quarterback Brock Osweiler “out of respect” for Peyton Manning is based on a faulty premise.
That lawsuit was settled in July 2005.
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It’s hard to believe that the Mannings did not write these excerpts without malice toward Dr. Naughright.
