Peyton Manning's famous pre-snap 'Omaha' call wasn't always 'Omaha,' he divulged during Phil Mickleson's segment on Manningcast on Monday night.
Mickleson asked Peyton what Omaha meant.
“It told my teammates we’d kind of gone to Plan B,’’ he explained. “It was just a few seconds on the clock. Everybody kind of has that word, kind of a trigger word that means, 'hey, get ready the ball’s about to be snapped.'’’
“I don’t know if you know this, but in Indianapolis, before I said ‘Omaha,’ we actually had your name into our offense,’’ Peyton continued. “We had a snap count called 'Tiger' and a snap count called 'Phil.