{"id":9692,"date":"2012-03-20T09:29:16","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T16:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=9692"},"modified":"2012-03-20T09:29:16","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T16:29:16","slug":"tim-tebow-trumpeting-peyton-manning-because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2012\/03\/20\/tim-tebow-trumpeting-peyton-manning-because\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Tebow trumpeting Peyton Manning, because &#8211;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I note yahoo&#8217;s &#8220;Trending Now&#8221; list&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Trending Now<br \/>01 Tebow trade rumors<br \/>02 Dancing With the Stars<br \/>03 Gwenyneth Paltrow<br \/>04 Kate Hudson<br \/>05 Mutual funds<br \/>06 Katherine Jenkins<br \/>07&nbsp; Omar Sharif Jr<br \/>08 Obesity<br \/>09 King of Tonga di&#8230;<br \/>10 Spring equinox<span class=\"y-txt-accent med-large num\" style=\"font-family: verdana;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span>Item number one is &#8220;Tim Tebow trade rumors&#8221;.<br \/>This comes off the heals of Peyton Manning signing with the Denver Broncos.&nbsp; Bronocs fans, I assume, will immediately forget about their love of Tim Tebow, now that they have &#8212; you know, an actually good quarterback.&nbsp; (And rooting for sports teams is the equivalent of rooting for laundry.)&nbsp; Yet, from this vantage point of this particular zeitgeist dig, Manning lies in the shadow of Tim Tebow.<\/p>\n<p>Which is interesting.&nbsp; He&#8217;s spent most of his career in the shadow of Tom Brady, generally considered the second best quarterback in the league &#8212; Brady won three superbowls before Manning won one.&nbsp; Oddly, his season out with an injury brought about a reassessment: see how the Patriots did in their season without Brady against how the Colts did without Manning.&nbsp; But just as soon as Manning emerged from the shadow of Brady in this way, he has fallen under the shadow of someone even worse:&nbsp; <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Eli\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/eli-manning,27109\/\">Eli<\/a>  <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Manning\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/peyton-manning-congratulates-brother-eli-this-has,27328\/\">Manning<\/a>..<\/p>\n<p>Of course now Peyton Manning, in the effort to escape the shadow of his younger brother, is trying to avoid the pitfalls of the Ghost of Brett Farve&#8217;s post-Packers career.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I note yahoo&#8217;s &#8220;Trending Now&#8221; list&#8230; Trending Now01 Tebow trade rumors02 Dancing With the Stars03 Gwenyneth Paltrow04 Kate Hudson05 Mutual funds06 Katherine Jenkins07&nbsp; Omar Sharif Jr08 Obesity09 King of Tonga di&#8230;10 Spring equinox Item number one is &#8220;Tim Tebow trade rumors&#8221;.This comes off the heals of Peyton Manning signing with the Denver Broncos.&nbsp; Bronocs fans, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9693,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9692\/revisions\/9693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}