Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Tom Brady vs. Peyton Manning - The Cold Hard Football Facts

This is great. I literally had a smile on my face the whole time I read the article. Read the whole thing but here are a couple of excerps:
Peyton Manning is a great player who puts up some nifty numbers. But there is far more to quarterbacking than surrounding yourself with hall-of-fame talent and tossing a record number of touchdown passes.

Every time we look at Tom Brady, meanwhile, we find ourselves discussing his accomplishments in the most remarkable historic terms: youngest QB to win a Super Bowl, youngest QB to win two Super Bowls, engineer of the longest win streak in NFL history, leader of the only walk-off scoring drive in Super Bowl history, best winning percentage by a QB in modern NFL history, best overtime record in NFL history, one of just four players to boast multiple Super Bowl MVP awards.
Heh heh - please sir can I have some more?
Brady’s superiority over Manning is built upon the foundation of each player’s postseason performances. Quite simply, Manning, as we have long noted, is the Picasso of Choke Artists, the Betty Ford of Chokeaholics and the Al Choker of glib pigskin weathermen.

Brady, meanwhile, has already proven to be one of the great clutch performers in postseason history and has the Super Bowl rings, Super Bowl records and Super Bowl MVP awards to prove it.

For all of Manning’s brilliant regular-season fireworks in recent years, he has choked every year he’s been in the playoffs. That’s right. Every year. Don’t believe us? Come, take a drive down Manning’s postseason memory lane. But roll up the windows and lock the doors. It’s an ugly neighborhood.
As Kevin Bacon said in A Few Good Men, "These are the facts and the facts are undisputed."

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