ESPN First Take actually hits the Manning case on the head..

[tuckeverlasting]

espn logic: we never talked about this story before because we never heard it, but we shouldn't talk about it now because it's 20 years old.

 

[rochrist]

He was named in the lawsuit. I didn't say he was a defendant.

Not in such a way that would bar him from talking about it. He was merely cited as an example of what went on 20 years ago.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Not in such a way that would bar him from talking about it. He was merely cited as an example of what went on 20 years ago.

If you are named in court documents in an unsavory light you don't talk! Period.