What Peyton Manning threatened the Colts with if they didn't draft him. - Lateral-g Forums

**fleetus macmullitz** · #1 03-07-2012, 06:39 AM

"In 1998, when the Colts were wrestling with the question of whether to use the first overall pick in the draft on Peyton Manning or Ryan Leaf (yes, they actually did wrestle with that question), Manning had a warning for the Colts.

“I asked if I could see Bill Polian before I left the building,” Manning told Peter King of SI.com in 2008. “So I went into his office, and Bill and coach [Jim] Mora were in there. Those are two of the most intimidating people I have ever known, and here I was, wanting to know what they were going to do. To be honest, I felt they were kind of stringing me along.

So I said, ‘I’d really like to come here if you want me. But if you don’t, I promise you I’ll come back and kick your ass for the next 15 years.’”

Sounds like he was as ticked off as when he said this about their "idiot kicker" Mike Vanderjadt.