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The argument for Manning
In a place like Massachusetts, where fairness and liberal thinking are embraced, Peyton Manning must be defended. Even now. Even on the eve of the biggest football game of the year.
In the considerable and extraordinary history of Boston sports, we have had this kind of debate before, of course. Williams or DiMaggio? Munson or Fisk? Larry or Magic? And so now we are the midst of perhaps the consummate either/or, a debate involving two of the greatest quarterbacks in league history, a question to which there is truly no wrong answer.
Brady or Manning?
Click here to read the full debate between myself and Chris Gasper.
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Tony Massarotti is a Globe sportswriter and has been writing about sports in Boston for the last 19 years. A lifelong Bostonian, Massarotti graduated from Waltham High School and Tufts University. He was voted the Massachusetts Sportswriter of the Year by his peers in 2000 and 2008 and has been a finalist for the award on several other occasions. This blog won a 2008 EPpy award for "Best Sports Blog".
Tony's Top 5
NFL quarterbacks of all-time
5
Troy Aikman. One of the great big-game quarterbacks of all-time, his regular-season stats don’t impress. But he was a winner.
4
John Elway. OK, so he didn’t win a Super Bowl until Terrell Davis came along. But he the arm, head and guts. Complete package.
3
Peyton Manning. When it’s all over, he will go down as the greatest passer of all-time. With another title or two, he could be more.
2
Tom Brady. The closest thing to Joe Montana since Montana retired. Had the Pats won Super Bowl XLII, he might have been No. 1.
1
Joe Montana. In four Super Bowl appearances, Montana went 4-0 and threw 11 touchdowns with no interceptions. Enough said.
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Sox pitching depth hits bottomThe real reason for concern is that key pieces of the 04 and 07 winning teams are old and rusty.
Ortiz, Lowell, Varitek. Is there a baseball "Cash for Clunkers" program? Trade them in for new models.
Bob
'Big Papi' revealed as a mythWow....no sugar coating here, huh Tony? It is bitterly disappointing to confirm what I think most honest Red Sox fans must have at least suspected. Does it change anything? Not really. Again no honest Red Sox fan really believed none of the Home Town players were involved with this, did they? Baseball could have ended this whole story years ago by just making "The List" public. Instead, it will continue to trickle out over the next 10 years and we'll never get past this.
Steve from Plattsburgh, NY
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