When teams that employ Tom Brady and Peyton Manning get together, the ultimate team sport unfairly gets boiled down to a quarterback battle. I mean, there’s even a book by New York Daily News columnist Gary Myers out on the “rivalry.” (I’ll give it to Gary that the rise of both quarterbacks at the same time helped to transform the NFL into the pass-heavy game we see today).
And even heading into Sunday night’s Patriots-Broncos matchup, with Manning relegated to watching from the sideline as he deals with plantar fasciitis, the conversation about this game will inevitably turn to the quarterbacks.