HGHGate continues:Pedton's Lawyers hired men to pretend to be cops to question Sly

Hiring private eyes to impersonate cops and intimidate a witness is a helluva lot more serious than HGH use. I just lost a ton of respect for Manning. This is getting too big and too serious for the media to continue protecting him.

Tony2046 said:

ESPN is running the story with a slightly more Manning favored tone.

Peyton's legal team hired PIs to vet PEDs source

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Assuming "slightly more Manning favored tone" is a joke, right?

It now reads:
Report: Peyton Manning's legal team checked source of allegations

That is so incredibly misleading. It's like the spin a mafia boss would use.

PEDton's "legal" team...

robertweathers said:

I wish they sold the story to CNN or the New York Times.....

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Such a sad commentary, really...whatever outlet originally broke the story, every news organization in the country should have jumped immediately and have their own sourced takes on this by now.

MitchKumstein said:

It wouldn't matter if anyone asked him. He'd just babble nonsense for a while without answering the question

Mr Commissioner, will the NFL look into the recent stories of HGH being shipped to Peyton Manning's house?

Well Mike, as you know, we just want to do whatever is necessary to uphold the integrity of the game. The integrity of the game is what is of the upmost importance to us. Regarding any stories in the media that have come out recently about any players or anyone else connected to the league, all I can say is that we want to ensure that the integrity of the game is upheld. Next question.

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Security footage from that night:

League Source: We find it more likely than not Mr Manning did nothing wrong.

aluminum seats said:

Such a sad commentary, really...whatever outlet originally broke the story, every news organization in the country should have jumped immediately and have their own sourced takes on this by now.

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No kidding. The biggest knock on Al-Jazeera was that it's reporting is heavily-influenced by Islamic/Muslim-centric viewpoints.

You can argue quite easily that ABC,CBS, NBC, FOX and ESPN are also heavily influenced by the NFL's viewpoint.

This looks really bad.

I'd say it certainly falls into the "conduct detrimental" area. What say you Goodell?

Galeb said:

Hiring private eyes to impersonate cops and intimidate a witness is a helluva lot more serious than HGH use. I just lost a ton of respect for Manning. This is getting too big and too serious for the media to continue protecting him.

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Any yet none of the sports outlets are running with this story. How can strong arming somebody's family not be worse than a chance balls were deflated. If it came out Brady did this you better believe every outlet would be calling for him to have a lifetime ban from football and the HOF.

aluminum seats said:

Assuming "slightly more Manning favored tone" is a joke, right?

It now reads:
Report: Peyton Manning's legal team checked source of allegations

That is so incredibly misleading. It's like the spin a mafia boss would use.

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To me, ESPN would have more credibility if they just ignored the story, like they've done with some other negative developments for Manning.

They have staked themselves to some embarrassing territory with this story. When it first broke, they had their reporters and analysts openly mocking the news agency behind the story. Now, they're telling people it's totally normal to send PIs, unannounced, to talk to witnesses.

As aluminum seats said earlier this morning, I know we question ESPN's motives and ethics, but this could lead to more people thinking the same way.

Koma said:

To me, ESPN would have more credibility if they just ignored the story, like they've done with some other negative developments for Manning.

They have staked themselves to some embarrassing territory with this story. When it first broke, they had their reporters and analysts openly mocking the news agency behind the story. Now, they're telling people it's totally normal to send PIs, unannounced, to talk to witnesses.

As aluminum seats said earlier this morning, I know we question ESPN's motives and ethics, but this could lead to more people thinking the same way.

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At least it seems the general public is starting to wake up to the double standard between Brady and Manning coverage.

As I said in a previous post, I think the NFL and other media outlets were kind of shocked at the way the Brady scenario unfolded to crime of the century. I honestly think now those same media outlets are trying to put a cap on this, not because it's Saint Manning, but because they don't want the same outcome as lengthy court cases which helps no one. Saying that you do the crime, this shouldn't muzzle the press for any reason. Just seems they have now gone too far the other way now.

FreeTedWilliams said:

It's more probably than not, that PEDyton's guys bought his recantment, much the same way the Mannings bought the silence of the girl he tea bagged in college.

Everyday, the NFL looks worse and worse in light of the framing of Brady and the head in the sand over Manning's PED use. You really have to ask yourself, why would the NFL, choose to trash the reputation of its greatest QB evah, while at the same time, ignoring the PED use of Manning.

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Could be a few reasons, 1 being that the media despises Belichick and so they viscously go after the Patriots

Another is that the Patriots are one of the most popular and polarizing team's in the world, and it's profitable to write about and go after them

The Manning family has deep ties in the NFL thru Archie, and Eli in NY. They are the "royal family" of football and Manning has close relationships with ESPN network folks and the nfl

Everyone loves a good hero vs villain, light vs dark, good vs evil story and unfortunately the Patriots, BB and Brady have been cast as the evil ones, while Manning has been cast as the good Ole sheriff, looking out for the little guys

This goes back 10+ years, look at some of the Brady vs Manning marketing graphics from NFL, Sports Illustrated etc... even the color theme, graphics etc around the Patriots has been darker shadowed colors of red and black, with half of Brady's or BBs face covered by darkness... and Manning's or Dungy's face completely illuminated with bright, crisp colors

I've noticed and pointed this out for years. . The media has created all of this thru subliminal marketing tactics and outright hit pieces by their writers.. and everyone laughs all the way to the bank

everlong said:

Any yet none of the sports outlets are running with this story. How can strong arming somebody's family not be worse than a chance balls were deflated. If it came out Brady did this you better believe every outlet would be calling for him to have a lifetime ban from football and the HOF.

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If this were Brady, espn would have commentators crying and demanding that he be thrown in a prison cell for the rest of his life, before the "investigation" even started

JarOfMayo51 said:

If this were Brady, espn would have commentators crying and demanding that he be thrown in a prison cell for the rest of his life, before the "investigation" even started

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They would be saying Brady shouldn't be allowed to play in the SB.

I wonder if Nantz and Simms will ruin the commentary of Super Bowl 50, like Michaels and Collinsworth ruined last year's game....


Some gems I hope to hear:
"Peyton look me in the eye and tell me, did you have anything to do with HGH? "Absolutely not" He couldn't have been more emphatic."

"If there is anything nefarious, it will be a very complicated legacy.”

So on and so forth...

Galeb said:

Hiring private eyes to impersonate cops and intimidate a witness is a helluva lot more serious than HGH use. I just lost a ton of respect for Manning. This is getting too big and too serious for the media to continue protecting him.

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Agreed, but nothing the Royal Family does will ever be big enough or serious enough for the media to stop protecting them.

Galeb said:

Hiring private eyes to impersonate cops and intimidate a witness is a helluva lot more serious than HGH use. I just lost a ton of respect for Manning. This is getting too big and too serious for the media to continue protecting him.

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Its Ok the people impersonating police officers have stated that impersonating police officers would be illegal, so clearly they didn't do that.
Additionally, the people protecting Manning who went to the Guyer Institute to see what was in the records, which would hurt the interests of everyone that was in the building the day they arrived, have promised us they removed nothing.

Case closed.

It's only fair now to have the media grill him at his next interview. "Why the lies?" "What about the children, Manning. What do you tell the children?"