Tennessee Vols: DeMarcus Ware Shares Great Peyton Manning Story

Former NFL defensive end DeMarcus Ware recently shared a great story about former Tennessee Vols quarterback Peyton Manning.

Before DeMarcus Ware was a teammate of former Tennessee Vols quarterback Peyton Manning, he played against the sherriff.

And boy does Ware have a great Manning story (as so many folks do).

Ware wrote an article for The Players Tribune describing the five toughest players he played against in his career.

Among those players is Manning.

Ware told a story about how he used film/tendencies to sack Manning, which resulted in the Super Bowl champion quarterback exacting some revenge on the field.

From The Players Tribune:

"The Broncos had a third-and-goal on the one-inch line. And if there was one thing I was certain about at that moment, it was that Peyton Manning was not going to run the ball. At least I knew he wouldn’t be running to the outside. They only needed one inch. If anything, he’d run a QB sneak. So when Peyton hiked the ball and dropped back to hand it off to Knowshon Moreno, I was certain it was a dive play up the gut. There was literally nobody blocking me. So I came clean down the line, and I was thinking, I’m gonna smash this guy and get the stop. But when I got to the running back, I noticed that … he didn’t have the ball. Then I turned around and I saw Peyton running out to his left, going about two miles an hour, shuffling into the end zone.He came up to me after that play and said, “D-Ware … I got you, man. You got me that one time, and now I got you.”"

That’s Peyton Manning in a nutshell — ultra competitive and incredibly intelligent.

There’s a litany of all-time great Manning stories, but that’s definitely one of the best I’ve heard.