Rejoice, Americans! Peyton Manning agrees to a $90 million deal!

[villager]

You only thought the economy was bad!

Ye subversives of little faith!

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/6817822/sources-indianapolis-colts-peyton-manning-gets-five-year-90-million-deal

[patrice]

1. The real patriots are being flushed out into the open. nt

:patriot:

[pfitz59]

2. Only $18 million a year

C'mon he's worth it! Not like he shovels shit or takes out the trash or does something useful for society...

[Phlem]

3. now now

:rofl:

we'll have no hisifits over over-paid athletes around here, just kidding.

At the very least he's gonna spend some of that here, the operative word being "some".

-p

[CleanGreenFuture]

4. Bread & Circuses budgets are nothing for the elitist owner of sports teams.

Oh, except for the Packers.

[Ishoutandscream2]

5. Another "job creator" gets his due

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Payton who?

:hi:

[WinkyDink]

7. I've finally come to terms with these stories, to wit: We will pay HUGE $$ to see/hear the best of

what humans can do, PHYSICALLY. And that's not so outrageous, given we all have human bodies.

[scheming daemons]

8. Yes.... but it is in soon-to-be-worthless US dollars....

....

[joeybee12]

9. $90 M too much for an over-rated jackass...nt