Super Bowl Champ Peyton Manning's Squeaky Clean Image Was Based On Lies
Thirteen years ago, USA Today obtained 74 pages of explosive court documents on Peyton Manning, Archie Manning, the University of Tennessee, and Florida Southern College that revealed allegations of a sexual-assault scandal, cover up, and smear campaign of the victim that was so deep, so widespread and so ugly that it would've rocked the American sports world to its core. Yet USA Today never released those documents for reasons I can't explain.
Mel Antonen, now a baseball writer for Sports Illustrated, wrote about the documents for the paper on Nov. 3, 2003. Three days later, Christine Brennan, longtime sportswriter for USA Today wrote an op-ed about Peyton Manning and the documents entitled, “Do you really know your sports hero?” but the scandal pretty much died right there.
Facebook wouldn’t be invented for three more months. Twitter didn’t come for three more years. The word “viral” was still only being used to describe the spread of infectious diseases.
But when the documents were sent to me on Tuesday, two days after the Super Bowl, it was immediately clear to me that had the world actually known what they contained, it’s doubtful that Peyton would have ever been the “swell, golly, gee-whiz” pitchman for Nationwide Insurance, DirecTV or Papa John’s Pizza. Certainly, evangelical op-eds calling him “squeaky clean” and positioning Peyton as the arbiter of all things good and decent in the world simply wouldn’t be the case.
"...To say that her problems with Peyton Manning boiled over in 1996 would be understating it.
On Feb. 29 of that year, Naughright, at that point the university's director of health and wellness, was in a training room, examining what she thought might be a possible stress fracture in Manning's foot. At 6 feet, 5 inches, his feet dangled off the edge of the table. Manning allegedly then proceeded to scoot down the training table while Naughright examined his foot. At that point, she said, he forcefully maneuvered his naked testicles and rectum directly on her face with his penis on top of her head. Shocked, disgusted, and offended, Naughright pushed Manning away, removing her head out from under him (see pages 14-15). Within hours, she reported the incident to the Sexual Assault Crisis Center in Knoxville (see page 18).
...imagine if a grown man forced his genitals on to the face of your daughter or sister or mother or beloved colleague. What would you think about that? Would you tell your wife, "Well, that's gross, honey. How was the rest of your day?" Would you ask your daughter, "What she did to deserve that?" Of course you wouldn't. You'd be outraged.
When Rollo was asked, under oath, if the woman he had known for more than seven years would respond in such a way to being mooned, he repeatedly said no (see pages 15-16). Yet he allegedly concocted the mooning narrative, nonetheless.
Instead, the school asked Naughright to leave. Having poured her heart and soul out to the University of Tennessee for nearly 10 years, she agreed, as a part of a settlement agreement, to part ways."
Peyton Manning appears to have been guilty of sexual assault and it was covered up or buried for 20 years.
I'm not sure I understand the purpose of this article. It sounds like there was a settlement and the Dr. agreed that the matter was closed. So, it leads me back to my question which is what is the purpose of this article. Is it to use the new technology available such as the social media outlets to spread a 13 year old story far and wide? I'm not being sarcastic and I'm not defending Peyton I'm really just asking what does the author want to achieve by printing this article.
Six women are suing the University of Tennessee over sexual assault and sexual harassment claims, and I believe she is one of them or she is a witness. Her lawyer sent the information about the 1996 incident and the 2003 developments to a New York newspaper a few days ago.
I think some people in sports think that Manning is a hypocrite and has been treated like a golden boy. There also are allegations of harassment against the woman by Manning's father, also a beloved figure in the NFL.
Ah.....okay well it sounds like its more a charge against the University for the culture they've allowed. I guess using the incident with Peyton would help to show an ongoing pattern and bring the much needed attention it deserves.
Manning’s Accuser has a Tendency for Suing Famous People
Profootballtalk outlined a Sports Illustrated article today that debunks many of the myths in the original Shaun King article. Mr. King took liberties with the facts he was given and stretched them to fit his narrative. Basically as we stated a few days ago , the article was extremely biased and one-sided.
However, we have since discovered that Jamie Naughright, Peyton Manning’s accuser has had a history of filing lawsuits against A-listers and as one defense lawyer cited “(1) the litigant’s history of litigation and in particular whether it entailed vexatious, harassing or duplicative lawsuits”.
In 2010 Ms. Naughright filed a lawsuit against fashion designer Donna Karan and “Urban Zen” after allegedly recieving injury during a physical therapy session with a trainer Karan had suggested. The Urban Zen Website states affiliation with Naughright and that she even “introduced 35 students to the Urban Zen Integrative” .
The lawsuit against Karan was eventually dismissed but has several nuggets worth mentioning. The court justified their decision via the defense’s argument that
“a history of litigation entailing vexation, harassment and needless expense to other parties and an unnecessary burden on the courts and their supporting personnel is enough” to warrant such a remedy.”
“The Karan Defendants have asserted that Naughright has an extensive history of filing repetitive lawsuits against or involving public figures, apparently having “spent the majority of eight years [1998 through 2005] filing legal complaints against or about [Peyton] Manning… [some of which] had no basis in law or in fact and were fueled only by [plaintiff’s] relentless search for revenge.” ”
Lastly, it also states that Ms. Naughright filed another lawsuit against “Deli Delicacies” three months after filing the one against Karan, in a different state, claiming the same conditions and claims against the trainer recommended by Karan. The two cases went on simultaneously with the same or similar claims levied against two separate parties.
We don’t mean to question the integrity of the accuser to Peyton Manning and are not belittling the severity of sexual assault. However, we would like to point out that a defense attorney won a case against Ms. Naughright by questioning said integrity with an argument amounting to calling her a serial litigant.
Information for this article is from Leagle.comThis story by all accounts is still developing. I was listening to Mad Dog on the radio today and he was talking about it incessantly. I understand this is something that will attract attention/ratings but it should be discussed with caution.
This woman's motives seem suspicious but I don't want to say that what she claims happened between her and Peyton didn't happen. We shall see......
[some of which] had no basis in law or in fact and were fueled only by [plaintiff’s] relentless search for revenge.””
That seems like a rather key phrase in all this. It appears to mean that "some" of her allegations against Manning did have a basis in law or in fact.
Yes, lawyers are wily that's why everyone should remain cautious until everything comes out.
As a school nerd I always take some sort of guilty pleasure when one of the athletes get in trouble.