One thing Peyton Manning will not be doing next: Running for president
Peyton Manning said during his retirement press conference with the Colts he's still not sure what he'll do, but he does know one thing: he's not running for president of the United States.
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Will Brinson
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There's about to be a whole huge vacuum of free time in Peyton Manning's life. The long-time NFL quarterback spent the past 18 years preparing to play on Sundays before retiring this offseason.
So what's next? Manning said Friday during his retirement press conference with the Colts he's still not sure. But he does know one thing: he's not running for president of the United States.
“Negative, negative on that," Manning said.
Brokered convention, independent party candidate ... never say never, Peyton. It would ruin his August and September, though, and having a fall free to hang out is something Manning's excited about.
After all, he hasn't had one free in nearly 30 years.
"I haven’t [thought about what's next]. I really haven’t. I’ve tried to kind of enjoy these conversations going down memory lane if you will. I haven’t made any more decisions or had any conversations about what’s next," Manning said. "I think I’ll be able to keep a fairly normal and somewhat busy offseason. Kind of normal commitments that I do anyway. Obviously I have kind of things committed to up until August and that’s when usually that you go to Terre Haute (Indiana) or Anderson (Indiana) or go to Dove Valley (Colorado) for training camp so that’s where it stops. I think the one thing that I want to do is kind of take my time.
"I think the biggest mistake would be to rush into something and go, ‘Wow, what am I doing? I’m not ready for this or what not.’ I haven’t had a fall off in about 25 years. Something about that has some appeal to it."
The former Broncos quarterback said he might just hang out and watch some football. Maybe some Giants games (Eli Manning) on Sunday and maybe some Tennessee Volunteer games on Saturday.
Manning will have whatever option he could possibly want. If he decides to go into media, plenty of people would love to have him on their broadcast team.
If he wants to coach or run a team, he'll have no shortage of options either.
For now he's free to enjoy not having any responsibilities other than spending a summer hanging with this family, teeing it up as often as he wants and then maybe entering into the wild world of nothing to do.
Wink of the CBS Eye to Pro Football Talk for catching the quote.
