Peyton Manning wins third MVP Award
Indianapolis Colts’ quarterback Peyton Manning took home his third MVP Award on Friday, beating out Dolphins’ QB Chad Pennington and Falcons’ RB Michael Turner.
Peyton Manning has joined Brett Favre as the only three-time winners of The Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player Award.
The Indianapolis Colts quarterback was a landslide winner Friday in balloting by a nationwide panel of 50 sports writers and broadcasters who cover the NFL. Manning also was the league MVP in 2003, when he shared it with Tennessee quarterback Steve McNair, and in 2004.
Favre, then with Green Bay, took MVP honors in 1995 and ‘96 before sharing it with Detroit running back Barry Sanders in 1997.
Manning received 32 votes, far ahead of Miami quarterback Chad Pennington and Atlanta running back Michael Turner.
I don’t know if anyone is playing as good as Manning is right now. But the playoffs have spelled a different story for him in the past and it’ll be interesting to see how he does on the road Saturday night in San Diego. I know the man won a Super Bowl, but it doesn’t erase the fact that he’s had more bad times than good in the postseason. And with how banged up the Colts are on defense, their game Saturday against the Chargers won’t be a gimmie.
(Boy I’m positive, huh? The man wins his third MVP Award and I dump on him. What a dick…)
This really surprises me, but when you think about it, neither Tennessee nor the New York Giants had a standout player of Peyton’s caliber this season, so voters had to select from one of the next tier of teams.
This is GARBAGE. You expect Manning to put up numbers like this but to take a team from 1 – 15 is huge. Pennington got robbed from the fans for Probowl and got robbed again for MVP.
Didn’t DeAngelo Williams deserve more consideration? He had 1600 total yards and 20 TD.