Now that is quite an interesting development right there.

It looks like we have quite an intriguing 2012 NFL football season on our hands if Peyton Manning decides to sign with the Denver Broncos.

Yes, apparently, the Denver Broncos is the top team among the other teams in the league that Peyton Manning wants to play for.

That means, if the Broncos do get No.18, then they would have to part ways with Tim Tebow, because Denver ain’t big enough for these two quarterbacks.

Getting rid of Tim Tebow if the Denver Broncos manage to sign Peyton Manning is a very likely possibility, according to a source.

One website cited an unidentified source ”with knowledge of the dynamics in Denver” claiming that if the Broncos land Manning, Tim Tebow most likely will be gone.

However, there is no chance that the Denver Broncos would simply release Tebow, according to the website. One of the teams looking to acquire Tebow is the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Tebow, 24, would remain the Broncos starter if Manning decides to sign with another team. In his second season, Tebow led the Broncos to an AFC West Division title…

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Now that is the million dollar question.

With Peyton Manning’s exit from Indianapolis official, several teams are expected to gamble the NFL’s only four-time MVP can rebound from career-threatening spinal-fusion surgery Sept. 8 to help them capture a Lombardi Trophy at the end of the 2012 NFL football season.

Will Peyton Manning become a 2012 offseason version of Drew Brees, the former San Diego Chargers quarterback with the career-threatening shoulder injury whom the New Orleans Saints gambled on in March 2006? Four seasons later, Brees rewarded general manager Mickey Loomis and coach Sean Payton with a Lombardi Trophy.

Or will Manning be a 2012 version of Joe Montana in 1993 and Brett Favre in 2008, franchise icons forced by younger successors to play elsewhere after the Indianapolis Colts got rid of Manning to make way for the possible arrival of Andrew Luck?

Which team is best stocked to win the ultimate gamble on greatness by signing the most compelling potential free agent franchise transformer?

First, we have the Arizona Cardinals. Why it would work? Pro Bowl receiver Larry Fitzgerald would embrace having Manning, and Manning would enjoy having a target every bit as talented as he had with Marvin Harrison and Reggie Wayne in Indy. Add the fact that the Cardinals have a solid defense and you have yourselves a perfect marriage right there.

The Miami Dolphins can also be an excellent destination…

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Dum dum dum dummm… dum dum dum dummm…

Yes, the improbable is about to happen. The day most football fans never expected to come has finally arrived. The Indianapolis Colts are set to release Peyton Manning. It’s like Cristiano Ronaldo leaving Manchester United and Michael Jordan leaving the Chicago Bulls all over again.

But face it, we knew this was coming, knew it all the way back when the Indianapolis Colts went to 0-13 and earned the pole position to draft Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck. And yet, hearing and reading the news that Peyton Manning is to be released by the Colts, was still somehow shocking. Shocking and so, so strange.

He was going to be a Colt for life, a Colt up until the day he couldn’t throw a football any longer. The idea that he would someday play elsewhere seemed foreign and downright ridiculous. How could that happen? And yet it’s happened.

The Manning era, which saw the Colts win 10-plus games 11 times, play in 19 playoff games and win a Super Bowl, is over. And it’s happened because it had to happen. It had to happen because there were just too many questions about the state of his surgically repaired neck and his right arm, and because only a fool tosses away a chance to grab Andrew Luck and…

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How about that?

Yes, apparently, their loss in the NFL playoffs didn’t faze the confidence of Tim Tebow one bit.

Why would it? I mean, he’s still the hottest property in the NFL right now and now that he bagged Taylor Swift, well, according to reports anyway, his stock will just continue to rise.

As news broke that romance may be budding between Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow and country superstar Taylor Swift, South Florida tweeters landed squarely in two camps: his and hers, Venus and Mars. Twitter hashtags #hecandobetter and #shecandobetter were zipping across the Twitterverse along with other snarky sneers.

As reported by the New York Daily News, the couple was spotted sharing a meal in Los Angeles. Now, they share a name, too: Swiftbow.

Some SoFla tweeps liked the idea of this celebrity couple.

“Wait, Tebow is dating TSwift? Where have I been?” tweeted Evan Heffner, 24, from Boca Raton. The University of Central Florida graduate is a Tebow fan and a second-year law student at Nova Southeastern University. Next, he mused, “Now, can he still hold off til marriage?”

“Obviously, a match made in heaven!” South Florida tweeter…

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Apparently, the Saints don’t want to risk letting their prized quarterback flirt with other teams.

The New Orleans Saints have placed the franchise tag on Drew Brees, giving them exclusive negotiating rights with their Pro Bowl quarterback for the next year. Brees has been involved in lengthy contract talks with the Saints heading towards the new 2012 NFL football season and, without the tag, could have negotiated with other teams as a free agent.

Team spokesman Greg Bensel said Saturday that the New Orleans Saints were officially notifying the NFL of the designation.

In January, Drew Brees said he would be “beyond stunned” if he and the Saints are unable to agree on a contract extension during this offseason. In 2011, Brees set NFL records with 468 completions, 5,476 yards passing and a completion percentage of 71.2. His prolific passing numbers helped the Saints set a new NFL high for total offensive yards in a season with 7,474.

He has been with the Saints for six seasons, leading them to a win in the 2010 Super Bowl.

Per the new Collective Bargaining Agreement, franchised players earn an aggregate per position based on the last five years of league financials, so placing the tag on a quarterback obviously takes up a very high amount of salary cap room.

Because it’s the exclusive-rights version of the tag, meaning…

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It has come to this.

The Pittsburgh Steelers have announced plans to release wide receiver Hines Ward, weeks after they got booted out of the playoffs in the wild card round, thanks to the Denver Broncos and Tim Tebow’s heroics.

The following was posted on the Steelers website on Wednesday: “We had a conversation today with Hines Ward and informed him that we plan to release him of his contract prior to the start of the 2012 NFL calendar year,” Steelers President Art Rooney II told the team’s website, Steelers.com.

“Hines has been an integral part of our success since we drafted him in 1998 and we will forever be grateful for what he has helped us achieve. He has meant so much to this organization, both on and off the field, and we appreciate his efforts over the past 14 years. Hines’ accomplishments are numerous, and he will always be thought of as one of the all-time great Steelers. We wish him nothing but the best.”

Ward was originally drafted by the Steelers in the third round of the 1998 NFL Draft out of Georgia. He spent 14 years in Pittsburgh and became the team’s all-time leader in receptions (1,000), receiving yards (12,083), receiving touchdowns (85) and 100-yard receiving games (29).

Ward is the eighth player in NFL history to reach 1,000 career receptions and joined only Hall of Famer Jerry Rice as the only two players in league history to post 1,000 career catches and win multiple Super Bowls.


Ward was the MVP of Super Bowl XL after leading the Steelers to…

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Well, that’s weird.

One of the perks of winning the Super Bowl is getting to host the next season opener in prime time. But when the New York Giants begin the defense of their championship at MetLife Stadium this fall, they will also get an extra-long break before their second game.

The opener of the 2012 NFL season has been scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 5, instead of the traditional Thursday start, to avoid conflicting with President Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention, scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 6.

It will be the first NFL game played on a Wednesday since 1948. And the Giants will have 10 days off before they have to play again.

The season opener will kick off at 8:30 p.m. Eastern. An opponent will be announced later, but the Green Bay Packers, who won the Super Bowl after the 2010 season, are on the Giants’ schedule.

If that is the opening matchup, it will be the second year in a row with the winners of the two most recent Super Bowls.

But if there’s a team to challenge both the Giants and the Packers in the NFC this season, it would have to be the San Francisco 49ers. And with the looks of things, it looks like they have began to reload as they head towards the coming season.

San Francisco 49ers linebacker Ahmad Brooks has signed a…

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The ball is in Peyton Manning’s court now.

Yep, in case you didn’t know, the Indianapolis Colts still wants Peyton Manning back. That is if the veteran quarterback is willing to take a paycut. It’s a great public-relations move by Colts owner Jim Irsay, even if I’m not convinced it was done for public-relations purposes. But it’s a questionable football move. Very questionable.

Because if Peyton Manning says he wants to come back under Irsay’s terms of a diminished, incentive-laden contract, if he calls his bluff, we are looking at an inordinately uncomfortable situation where a still-injured Manning is almost immediately engaged in a quarterback controversy with the sure No. 1 draft pick, Andrew Luck.

Here’s where we are now after Irsay spoke to the The Indianapolis Star’s Mike Chappell. Irsay and Manning will sit down for a heart-to-heart talk sometime in the next week. Irsay will make clear how concerned he is about Manning’s short-term and long-term health, how he continues to worry that hits from 300-pound linemen will affect his health when he’s older.

Irsay will tell him, “We want you to come back,” but he’ll quickly add that the team can’t do it under the current contract. Right now, Manning is owed $28 million by March 8, and with his base salary, he would receive more than $35 million next season.

Irsay is not going to offer anything close to…

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It seems there’s something about the Giants that the Patriots just can’t overcome.

And in Super Bowl XLVI, it was the same old story from four years ago when the New York Giants beat the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII to deny them of completing what would’ve been a perfect 19-0 season with a Super Bowl title.

This season, having survived summer injuries and defections, a four-game losing streak, calls for the coach’s job and six fourth-quarter comebacks, the New York Giants arrived at their Super Bowl rematch with the Patriots as something that seemed more formidable, a team prepared to face a deficit and overcome it. They did it again Sunday night.

Just as they did four years ago, the Giants prevailed in the final minute against the New England Patriots, beating the boys from Foxboro, 21-17 and giving the franchise its fourth Super Bowl championship, one more than the Patriots, and its second in four years over this generation’s greatest coach-quarterback combination, Bill Belichick and Tom Brady.

The Giants are an improbable champion in an improbable season, one that nearly did not begin because of a lockout, and ended with their becoming the first 9-7 team in NFL history to lift the Lombardi Trophy.

For the Patriots, who were 13-3 in the regular season, it was another…

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The Patriots just can’t beat the Giants when it matters.

After suffering another loss to the Giants for all the marbles in Super Bowl XLVI, the loss will stay with Tom Brady, and into the offseason, he will lay awake and ponder.

What if his late pass to Wes Welker had connected? What if that final Hail Mary had bounced the other way? Haunting questions. He won’t be alone trying to answer them.

The New England Patriots suffered a crushing 21-17 loss to the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLVI in front of 68,658 at Lucas Oil Stadium yesterday, sending the team into a disappointing offseason.

Just like in Super Bowl XLII, the New York Giants issued them a nightmare. There was no miracle like the one the Giants used in 2007, as a last-ditch deep pass that fell harmlessly to the turf.

”It all comes back to making plays,” Tom Brady said. ”You make it, you’re celebrating. You don’t, you don’t sleep for a week.” Trailing by four, Brady took the ball with 57 seconds left and one timeout. Players believed they knew what would happen, as they had seen it so often.

”We’re confident we can drive down the field and…”

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