It was bullcrap at the time and it’s bullcrap now.
NEVER, EVER... look up to any athlete as a role model. That was then, this is now. I’m sure Peyton has grown and matured and is quite a stand-up guy... now. However, according to the teammate, Saxon (the teammate Peyton says he was directing his shiney-hiney toward) he refuted Manning’s assertions and told him basically that Peyton should man up and take responsibility for his immature actions. Just because he’s a big star, doesn’t mean he should do others like that. Sound like an awful lot of settlement money being payed out for bullcrap.