Posted on 02/13/2016 9:07:31 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Just one week after Peyton Manning triumphed in Super Bowl 50, the Denver Broncos quarterback's reputation has been called into question due to his alleged involvement in a sexual assault during his time at the University of Tennessee.
According to Shaun King of the New York Daily News, in court documents from 2003 that were recently obtained, it was alleged that in 1996, Manning sexually assaulted Dr. Jamie Naughright, who was serving as the associate athletic trainer for the Volunteers football program.
Per the document, which was drafted by Naughright's lawyer, when Naughright was examining Manning's foot for a potential stress fracture, he allegedly "forcefully maneuvered his naked testicles and rectum directly on her face with his penis on top of her head." She later reported the incident to the Sexual Assault Crisis Center in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Manning reportedly denied the incident, while Naughright's superior and athletic trainer Mike Rollo said it was an accident that occurred when Manning mooned teammate Malcolm Saxon.
Saxon denied that explanation and claimed that he lost his eligibility at Tennessee for not going along with the story in a letter sent to Manning, according to King:
First, I have stuck to my same story throughout this drama. I told Mike Rollo the next day and Coach [Phillip] Fulmer a week or two afterwards. I had nothing to hide at that point and I have nothing to hide today. I have never been on Jamie's side or on your side [contrary to what the athletic department was telling you and telling her]. I stuck to the truth and I lost my eligibility for it. My redshirt request sat on Mike Rollo's desk for months as the process was going forward. I'm not angry about it anymore, just getting a little tired of it!!
Peyton, you messed up. I still don't know why you dropped your drawers. Maybe it was a mistake, maybe not. But it was definitely inappropriate. Please take some personal responsibility here and own up to what you did. I never understood why you didn't admit to it.
Naughright left the University of Tennessee soon after. She and Manning reportedly agreed to not discuss the alleged incident publicly as part of a settlement.
She later took a job at Florida Southern College, but on May 16, 2001, she received transcripts from a book written by Manning and his father, Archie Manning, titled Manning, in which disparaging things were written about her.
This led to her losing her job at Florida Southern College and also prompted her to file a defamation lawsuit.
Per King, Peyton Manning accused Naughright of regularly using vulgar language, which is something several Tennessee football players and colleagues of Naughright's denied.
Also, Manning ghostwriter John Underwood said under oath that Archie Manning suggested to him that "Naughright was going into the dorms and having sex with large numbers of black student-athletes," which was also never substantiated.
The lawsuit was settled for an undisclosed amount in 2003, according to King.
While both Mel Antonen and Christine Brennan wrote stories about the documents for USA Today in 2003, per King, many within the media were recently unaware of the allegations, including ESPN.com's Sarah Spain:
Incredible details I haven't seen anywhere before -- KING: Peyton Manning’s squeaky-clean image was built on lies https://t.co/mgMoAC023B— Sarah Spain (@SarahSpain) February 13, 2016
The details come to light during a time when Manning's NFL future is up in the air. Most expect the 39-year-old to retire, but he has been noncommittal, as he was on the Today Show (h/t WTHR 13):
Whatever the decision is, I have real peace about it. I'm going to enjoy this Super Bowl victory and celebrate with my family and friends. I'll keep doing it for a few more weeks, and then at the appropriate time, I think I'll make a decision. I have to tell you, though, I'm very much at peace with it.
Manning also recently dealt with accusations that he received human growth hormone from the Guyer Institute in Indianapolis while rehabbing his neck injury in 2011.
Manning has denied the allegations, per ESPN.com.
I expected no love for that post. I merely point out the hypocrisy. Whether Brady is a little guilty or a lot guilty or not guilty at all is irrelevant to the existence or extent of hypocrisy.
What does the one thing have to do with the other? False equivalency...
Even if true, what exactly did she expect to happen when climbing around men in a football locker room?
Just because they wear pink today and celebrate gay rights at the Super Bowl, doesn’t mean they did the same 20 years ago (i.e., men were real men back then).
As I replied to another post ...
I neither defend Brady nor accuse Manning, I like Peyton, I like Brady.
I merely point out hypocrisy. Doesn’t make Brady good or Peyton bad.
It just makes hypocrisy extant.
I said nothing more.
If the HGH were Brady, or the sex assault allegations were Brady ... you’d see a far far far different reaction from the country and the NFL.
Nothing in that defends Brady or accuses Peyton of anything. It merely shines a light on hypocrisy.
NY Daily News.....writing the stories that Al Jazeera used to write. They have no credibility left.
Not false equivalency.
Two men accused, one accused of two things far more serious.
It is the presence of plausible accusation that forms the equivalency, the nexus.
What isn't equivalent or even close, is the level of scrutiny or outrage. That's all I'm pointing out.
Lovely testimony.
So the got wind of Peyton Manning’s up coming endorsement of Donald Trump?
Or the evidence...but I know that’s not relevant to your analysis. Seriousness of the charge, right Anita?
The New York Daily news is a junk media outlet with less credibility than the National Enquirer.
Yep, I’m Anita.
Funny video though.
While someone is manipulating my broken foot, the first thing I think of is sex. Yeah right.
I can’t take anything this pretend black guy say for real. And Sarah Spain? Bwhahaha, she is the biggest man hater out there.
I have dear friends who know Payton well, I’m going to run this by them and see the reaction.
Watergate all over again: the cover-up became more important than the original incident.
From the little I looked into this, the woman seems to make a habit of suing rich folks:
http://nypost.com/2010/11/13/workers-dkny-back-less-groan-suit/
And I saw on a forum that over the course of her tenure at UT, she filed about 33 sexual harassment claims.
Finally, she is part of the feminist group VDAY, which has nothing to do with Valentines.
I do not know what happened, if he did tea-bag her or not. But $300K for some college kid doing a stupid college kid thing, I think her complaints were adequately redressed decades ago.
Why now? Because the Broncos beat a black quarterback, I guess.
Isn’t Shawn King that fake black boy?
Seems he is always pushing some envelope.
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