PEYTON MANNING--CREDENTIALS
- Super Bowl Champion
- Super Bowl MVP
- Holds records for most touchdown passes in a single season
- Archie's dad and Eli's brother
- Numerous commercial endorsements
- God, the commercials. You can't get away from this guy
- Prematurely labeled by ESPN as "This Generation's Dan Marino"
- Prematurely labeled as inferior to Tom Brady because he never won a championship
- Portrayed as nerdy "student of the game" (as opposed to "Golden Boy" Tom Brady)
- He and Eli got in trouble during ESPN Studio tour
- The Mavericks flat-out stunk before he bought the team
- Helped turn the Mavericks into one of the NBA's most popular franchises, and a consistent title contender
- Is the ultimate publicity whore
- Apparently ESPN's favorite and definitely most-interviewed and most-discussed owner--even more than Jerry Jones, George Steinbrenner and Daniel Snyder
- 2006 NBA Finals billed as "Shaq, Dwayne Wade and the Heat vs. Mark Cuban and the Mavericks"
- Gets more face time during NBA games than Jack Nicholson
- ESPN feels obliged to report on his blog entries
- 2006 Mavs were the NBA's best team, but were eliminated in six games in the first round of the playoffs
- Always getting in the news for proposing new sports leagues or buying other teams (which never seem to happen)
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