Peyton Manning would face a whole new kind of pressure with an ESPN deal. Manning has long been broadcasting's white whale, and if Front Office Sport’s report that the network is set to offer him $18-$20 million per year to be in the booth for Monday Night Football is true, he’d have bigger expectations than any broadcaster ever.
Of course the significance of that number, as significant as it is on its own, is that it would top the recent record-breaking deal reached between CBS and Tony Romo. Romo was a high profile quarterback himself being that he played for the Dallas Cowboys and all.