Peytons Foundation still feeding INDY's needy families todaay

[bayone]

his Peyback Foundation — which previously donated $4.3 million to youth organizations in Indiana (first 14 NFL seasons with the Indianapolis Colts), Tennessee (four years of college) and Louisiana (home state) — has since added Colorado to its cause.

Working alongside King Soopers grocery stores, Manning's foundation will provide 500 families with ties to the Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver with a Thanksgiving meal Thursday. Each meal, consisting of a 10- to 13-pound precooked turkey, stuffing, dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy, dinner rolls and pumpkin pie, can feed six to eight.

Counting the people Manning will help in Indianapolis, where his foundation is more established, the quarterback will be responsible for feeding upward of 10,000 people.

"Everybody ought to be able to eat a Thanksgiving meal," Manning said Wednesday. "The whole thing about community service is doing it with the right intention.

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Colorado learned that through grief comes remarkable compassion, and Manning shared these feelings with this community.

Upon hearing about the theater shooting, Manning was the first to call the Broncos' media relations department the next morning and ask, "What can I do?"

Without the media listening in, or cameras rolling, he spoke with the wounded and families of the victims in local emergency rooms and hospital beds.

t where Manning has perhaps done the most good is through his job. America may be a tad warped in the value it places on sports, but the truth is nothing stirs civic pride quite like the success of the local NFL team.

For a couple of months this summer, when the Denver area was mentioned to the people of Minnesota, Florida or Washington, their first thought might have been of the theater tragedy.

But mention Denver to those people today and their first response may well be: "How 'bout that Peyton Manning?"

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[BayAreaBronco]

Thanks for this wonderful read. I didn't know that Peyton already bought a house in Denver. I was worried what would happen to them if Mike Shanahan loses his job and wants to move back in his home Peyton was renting

I love this:

You try to get acclimated, but there are things you are supposed to do when you play for an NFL team and I believe one of them is you are supposed to live there.

"You are supposed to be part of the community and you are supposed to give back. It's not a part-time job. You don't play somewhere for six months, go someplace else and come back"

Also, this is cute:

Is Von Miller thankful for Peyton Manning?

"Everybody is thankful for him," the Broncos' star linebacker said as he walked through a hallway outside the team's dressing

Just then, the Broncos' owner walked down the same hallway and overheard the conversation.

"Me too," Pat Bowlen said.

Let us all be a blessing to others!

[DILLIGAFER]

Those folks that say they hate Peyton.. IDK how you can.

[bayone]

Thanks for this wonderful read. I didn't know that Peyton already bought a house in Denver. I was worried what would happen to them if Mike Shanahan loses his job and wants to move back in his home Peyton was renting

I love this:

You try to get acclimated, but there are things you are supposed to do when you play for an NFL team and I believe one of them is you are supposed to live there.

"You are supposed to be part of the community and you are supposed to give back. It's not a part-time job. You don't play somewhere for six months, go someplace else and come back"

Also, this is cute:

Is Von Miller thankful for Peyton Manning?

"Everybody is thankful for him," the Broncos' star linebacker said as he walked through a hallway outside the team's dressing

Just then, the Broncos' owner walked down the same hallway and overheard the conversation.

"Me too," Pat Bowlen said.

Let us all be a blessing to others!

Yeh he bought a biggie awhile back ( not as big as shanahans ) , said the 1 problem was ( unleases this was preseason and talking about shannahans house )

every time he took off to go practice or to stadium or to wherever it was to meet team or train etc,too long ago to know exactly ,, , he kept gonig in wrong direction so had to leave extra early to make up for mistake untill got used to directions. U see in Denver he was coming from oppsoite direction than would leaving home as a colt going to Lucas oil stadium so if had to go east, went west or whatever, u get the idea

[shakedownstreet]

peyton can navigate an nfl offense but not an automobile