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Monday 7 March 2016

In this Feb. 7, 2016, file photo, Denver Broncos’ Peyton Manning holds up the trophy after the NFL Super Bowl 50 football game in Santa Clara, Calif. A person with
knowledge of the decision tells The Associated Press on Sunday, March 6, 2016, that Manning has informed the Denver Broncos he’s going to retire. The person, who
was briefed on the matter, spoke to The AP on condition of anonymity because the quarterback and the team were still working out details of an announcement.

Associated Press

Peyton Manning to retire after 18 NFL seasons

ARNIE STAPLETON ange sunset just like the cords. time leading passer and feeling in the fingertips of
AP Pro Football Writer Broncos’ boss did 17 years “Peyton was a player that winningest starting quarter- his right hand.
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — ago after winning his sec- guys wanted to play with,” back, the only one in NFL A rare superstar quarter-
Peyton Manning surveyed ond Super Bowl. Elway said. “That made us history to win Super Bowls back on the open market
the landscape of his bril- Just shy of 40, Manning will better as a team and I’m with two franchises. in 2012, Manning resettled
liant career and called one forgo $19 million and a 19th thrilled that we were able His first came in 2007 with in Denver, where, despite
last audible. He’s retiring a season in the NFL, where to win a championship in the Indianapolis Colts, who a right arm weakened by
champion. he served as both a throw- his final year.” The Broncos drafted him No. 1 overall in nerve damage, he went
A month after Denver’s back and a transformer scheduled a news confer- 1998. The Colts gave up on 50-15 with his fifth MVP
triumph in Super Bowl 50, during a glittering career ence for 11 a.m. Monday. him after a series of neck award and two trips to the
Manning informed John El- bookmarked by an unprec- Manning leaves the league surgeries forced Manning Super Bowl in four seasons.
way he is following his lead edented five MVP awards he helped popularize to to miss all of the 2011 sea-
and riding off into that or- and dozens of passing re- supersize status as its all- son and left him without Continued on page 20