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Peyton Manning isn't heading to the broadcast booth or the front office anytime soon.
"I'm unemployed. I've got a couple of ads in the paper Elandon Roberts Jersey ," Manning joked Wednesday night at his Colorado Sports Hall of Fame induction, which came on the 20th anniversary of his selection as the first overall pick in the 1998 NFL draft.
Manning spent 14 seasons in Indianapolis and four in Denver, then retired after becoming the first quarterback to win Super Bowl rings with two teams.
He said he's enjoying retirement but keeps close tabs on the NFL, attending several games over the last couple of years in Denver, where he and his wife continue to raise their two young children.
"I stay close to it," said Manning, who retired a month after winning Super Bowl 50. "I'm certainly a fan, an ambassador Kenny Clark Jersey , do some work with Riddell helmets, which keeps me close to it, and I still have a lot of friends in the league. Obviously I keep up with Eli."
Manning also said he's a big fan of Denver's new quarterback, Case Keenum , a Manning Passing Academy alum and sixth-year pro who signed with the Broncos after leading the Minnesota Vikings to the NFC championship last season.
The two plan to get together on the golf course soon so that Keenum can pick Manning's brain about playing in Denver, where the Broncos have gone 14-18 and missed the playoffs in the two seasons since the five-time MVP's retirement.
"I know what it's like to change teams," Manning said. "There's expectations. There's pressure. And there's a lot of adjusting."
The Broncos went 55-17 with two Super Bowl appearances and one parade in Manning's four seasons in Denver, the best four-year stretch in franchise history.
He'll be eligible for the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2021.
In a December game in Seattle against the Seahawks late in the 2015 season Daniel Kilgore Jersey , then St. Louis Rams punter Johnny Hekker decided it would be a good idea to hit Seattle defensive end Cliff Avril from the backside after punting the ball downfield.
Hekker came to immediately regret his decision as he cowered to the turf when Avril and Michael Bennett came after him on a later punt in the game.
Three years removed from the play, Hekker and Avril have buried the hatchet over the play and discussed the situation on Avril’s radio show on Sports Radio 950 KJR on Tuesday.
“Oh man, the Chappelle Show had a segment ‘Keeping it real gone wrong.’ That was 100 percent the situation,” Hekker said.
Because of the amount of trick plays on punts the Rams under Jeff Fisher had run against Seattle, the Seahawks elected to play a punt-safe return with most of their usual defensive players on the field. That’s why Avril and Bennett were on the field for a play they otherwise wouldn’t take part in. After the punt, Hekker trailed Avril from behind and dropped him to the turf with a shoulder while Avril wasn’t looking. The play drew a 15-yard penalty.
“It was a perfect hit,” Avril said. “I fall to the ground and I’m like ‘there’s no way it’s the punter’ but that’s the only person behind me because it was a safe punt. So I’m just trotting, next thing I know I just bust my behind. I look up and it’s ‘oh Jaleel Johnson Jersey , I’ve got something for you the next go around.
“Then the ref actually comes to our sideline and is like ‘hey, we talked to him’ or whatever and I’m like ‘ok, I’ve still got something for him next time they call safe punt again. So I had to jump at you. And then Mike (Bennett) finds out about it on the sideline and he’s like ‘what? what happened? the punter did it?’ So Mike was really going out for blood.”
Hekker, who grew up in the Seattle suburb of Bothell, said he immediately had friends and family asking him what he was thinking.
“They’re all Seahawks fans,” he said.
Hekker reached out to apologize to Avril after the incident and donated money to his foundation as a gesture of good will, which Avril said ended any animus over the situation right away.
The two then ran into each other in person for the first time at the 2016 Pro Bowl.
“Well it was a deal where him, Richard Sherman and Mike (Bennett) were all standing by the elevator Bryan Bulaga Jersey ,” Hekker said. “And I kind of like puppy dog walk over like ‘hey guys…’ and I heard Mike just busting up laughing about it.”
“It’s all good,” said Avril. “It’s all squashed. It’s fun. Obviously he’s here, so we’re good to go.”
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