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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Atlanta Falcons: Jim Druckenmiller, QB, Virginia Tech. Like Ditka, Dan Reeves traded down for additional picks. He needs a quarter-back to groom behind stand-in Chris Chandler, and Druckenmiller is the guy. He's not as good of a prospect as Tennessee junior Peyton Manning but will go this high simply because he's the best QB available. He is tall, has a strong arm, and lifted weights with the offensive linemen at school...

Author: By Bryan Lee, | Title: Picking Up the Pace: The 1997 NFL Draft | 4/19/1997 | See Source »

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee: Proving once again that if it wasn't for bad luck New York Jets fans would have no luck at all, the top quarterback in college football announced he would stay in school rather than play in the Meadowlands. Peyton Manning has decided to play his senior season at Tennessee, breaking the hearts of general managers throughout the NFL where he was the sure first pick in the upcoming draft. In a league where teams for the most part rise and fall on the success of their quarterback, Manning is a rare find--a tall, strong, smart player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peyton, Placed | 3/5/1997 | See Source »

...Notre Dame $38 million for the exclusive rights to five football seasons. It might have been the day--true story--that a student athlete was asked to get rid of his soda at a press conference sponsored by a different soft-drink company. How is it that Tennessee quarterback Peyton Manning gets nothing when a Peyton Manning jersey is sold for $70 in Knoxville? According to Walter Byers, the executive director of the NCAA from 1952 to 1987, "The coaches own the athletes' feet, the colleges own the athletes' bodies, and the supervisors retain the large rewards. That reflects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOTE THAT BALL, LIFT THAT REVENUE | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

...glad-handing agents and boosters, the alarming number of incidents of petty theft and hostility involving jocks--just check today's sports section--and the isolation of athletes from the rest of the campus. "I would love to see college athletes have a little spending money," says Archie Manning, Peyton's father and a quarterback legend at Ole Miss a quarter-century ago. "I've been outside college dressing rooms, and I'm ready to go to dinner with my family, and I see kids going back to the dorm who can't afford to do anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOTE THAT BALL, LIFT THAT REVENUE | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

...first episode, we learn that Peyton has grown up, Sabrina-like, in the servants' quarters of the Burton family mansion. Though she is desperate to partake of the Burtons' world of wealth and good teeth, she can't get the hang of it. She is clever enough to have an affair with Reese's thick-necked fiance, but all she manages to get is a bracelet of cubic zirconium. There is pathos here because, deep down inside, Peyton is just a pained little girl. We know this because there is a teddy bear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: GARDEN OF GOOD AND TRASHY | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

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