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.
With one article and no other information, you come to that conclusion? Do you know anything about the accuser? perhaps you should do some research before opening your mouth and letting us see that you had manure for breakfast - and liked it.
A+ comment.
Mooning? It sounds like the attempted maneuver was a double hogback growler and Naughright was not the intended recipient.
I guess this is what you get when you beat “The Most Unapologetically Black Team In NFL History” on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panthers.
I think he was just upset over the criticism of Cam Newton and decided to lash out.
I’m going to wildly speculate that this is a racist retaliation for the Bronco’s humiliating “dancin” Cam Newton.
Beat me to the post.
Manning and his Broncos had the audacity to beat the media’s anointed winner—Now they must be made to pay.
Stupid stuff we do as kids can always come back to bite us. Other people’s perception of the stupid things can increase the teethmarks.
Why would there be any need to apologize for being black? Any more than I should apologize for being white?
None of us controls the circumstances of our birth, but we do control our BEHAVIOR. If we have behavior for which to apologize, the apology is welcomed.
I came to no conclusion. If you can copy and paste my conclusion in a response to me, feel free. You won't find it.
Read the Wells report, there's nothing in that either. That's my point. I'm neither attacking Manning nor exonerating Brady.
I'm pointing out hypocrisy. So far you're the 3rd to make up things I didn't say and attribute them to me. Now I'm pointing it out in YOU.
You accuse me of making accusations with no evidence. Where is YOUR evidence that I made an accusation? It reminds me of the Russian girl I once dated who criticized her Russian friends' English, calling them 'illiteral'. Even as you accuse, in that accusation, you are guilty of that which you claim as someone else's crime.
It's just not rigorous thinking. Frankly, it's what I'm accustomed to from the left. (I'm not saying you're a lefty, I'm saying your knee-jerk and inaccurate reaction to my perfectly valid and rational comment is LIKE a lefty.)
Great minds think alike; FRegards!
Gyrate away - and while you're at it, make yourself useful - I usually donating a few bucks to FR when I feel the need to become more relevant and less hypocritical....
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