Does Peyton Manning score as much off the field as on?
“Folks assume that Peyton Manning is a stand-up guy and a good family man. A flurry of past skirt-chasing rumors surround him, though. Does Manning score as much off the field as on?”
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Peyton Manning is an enigma. His charm is easy and his charisma is unmistakable – yet Manning is as distant seeming as any athlete Denver has ever not known. He’s intensely private and he invests in the maintenance of the air of secrecy that surrounds him. His media appearances are limited to those that are required of him and he is almost never seen in public.
In March of 2012 a stranger came into our lives. Two years later it seems like we know less about the man than we did back when first decided to sign with the Denver Broncos. We shouldn’t feel too badly, though. People in Indianapolis didn’t know a whole lot more about him than we do.
Manning seems to carry a trunk full of secrets. He is exceptionally cautious, even by the standards of a well guarded professional athlete. Perhaps it’s for good reasons.
Perhaps somewhere below the tidily groomed surface of Peyton Manning’s public persona there is a less perfect man. Maybe despite his prowess on the football field he’s a human being. Maybe Peyton possesses all of the same weaknesses as ordinary people but has the wherewithal to keep things under wraps.
Folks assume that Peyton Manning is a stand-up guy and a good family man. A flurry of past skirt-chasing rumors surround him, though. Does Manning score as much off the field as on?
A slate of unsubstantiated rumors suggest that Peyton gets around. And the whispers get a little bit weird when you start to Google into them.
The most substantial piece of Manning gossip deals with his supposed affair with a television weather girl in Indianapolis. Her name is Angela Buchman and it’s widely believed that she and Peyton dated between 2009 and 2011. It’s rumored that Peyton and his wife Ashley placed Buchman of the “payroll” in order to keep her from disclosing the relationship. Buchman reportedly appeared with the Mannings publicly at several charity events, including at least one at the Manning home, as a way of throwing the media off the scent of their tryst.
The Buchman affair has been widely discussed, even in the popular media. Many other instances of Manning presumably being unfaithful pepper the internet.
One story that appears is several corners of the web involves Manning being spotted receiving oral sex in the parking lot of the Superdome. One commenter claimed that Manning held up a flight after a preseason game because he was banging two Falcons cheerleaders. Others stories retell instances where he was supposedly seen leaving various night spots with ladies other than his wife.
TMZ’s cameras even captured Peyton leaving a Hollywood club with his brother Eli in a black SUV with two unidentified young women in the back seat.
It gets weirder.
Ashley Manning supposedly cheats too. Another very widely distributed rumor is that the Mannings have an open marriage. There is plenty gossip about Ashley dating other men – including athletes.
The oddest rumor of all dealing with Peyton and Ashley Manning is that Ashley is not the mother of their twins, Marshall and Mosely. There are many references on blogs and in chat boards to Ashley never having been pregnant. Speculation abounds that she adopted the twins from another woman, possibly one Peyton had impregnated.
This is a blurb from People Magazine’s “Celebrity Baby” blog: “Ashley Manning was most certainly NOT PREGNANT! She was seen in Chicago out celebrating her wedding anniversary with Peyton. She wasn’t pregnant with one baby, let alone two! She looked great, super skinny.” Ashley Manning also attended the St. Vincent Gala with Peyton that March. She was NOT PREGNANT!”
Of course, all of the scuttlebutt relating to Peyton, his cheating and Ashley and their children dates back to the quarterback’s years in Indianapolis. Rumors of Manning’s sexual exploits are yet to surface here in Denver. If he’s as much of a “hound” as he is said to be it will only be a matter of time before somebody busts him courting a woman locally.
Peyton Manning and his wife have every right for their private lives to remain private. But they are public figures which means that everyone else has the right to dig up dirt if they so choose. It’s in the best interests of the Mannings, the Broncos and the NFL for Peyton’s image as a devoted family man be preserved. There’s plenty of gossip out there that conflicts with that image, though. Enough that at least some of it is probably true.
They say that where there is smoke there is fire. Here are a selection of quotes from various places around the web:
“HE IS A GREAT QB, BUT HE CHEATS ON HIS WIFE VERY OFTEN, AND THIS IS WELL KNOWN! AND PLEASE DON’T FEEL SORRY FOR ASHLEY, SHE IS WELL AWARE OF THIS!”
“My former boss’s mother is Jim Irsay’s assistant. He has personally witnessed several circumstances where Peyton was accompanied by women who were not his wife. According to him Peyton is quite the ladies man and a known cheater.”
“I thought everyone knew about Peyton, including his wife, who is both cool with it and does the same thing. “
“Manning held up the plane in Japan after a preseason game because he was messing around with 2 of the Falcons cheerleaders back at the hotel.”
“ Peyton was hitting on these chicks one night at this popular bar in north central Indy. The chicks were part of a bachelorette party and Peyton was gunning for the bachelorette. Well, the chicks head to another popular bar area of Indy in a limo and Peyton and his boys follow. When they get to this area, all the bachelorette’s friends get out and Peyton gets in the limo. He starts makin out and hookin up w/ the bachelorette, and starts yelling at the limo driver–who was still in the front–to “put the divider up.” The limo driver calmly reminds Peyton that the divider button is in the back seat with him. Peyton continues to yell at the driver to “put the divider up” until the driver gets out.”
“From what we hear,.. the payroll isn’t the only thing of Peyton’s that Ms. Buchman is on.”
“Ashley mandated an open marriage after she realized that Peyton was never going to change. I don’t buy that Archie and Olivia are okay with this open marriage. They run that family with an iron fist. Look at how Olivia announced the twin’s birth, and Ashley had a meltdown. Or how they always have to pay Ashley to come back to Peyton when she runs off. Or Ashley acting a fool about Peyton running the streets.”
“Maybe there’s more to this story that demands a certain level of privacy. Maybe these twins were adopted, or perhaps there was a surrogate mother. That might explain why seemingly no one knew the Mannings were expecting. Maybe the stork brought them”
“And 100% of all press releases, news reports, etc., avoids saying his wife “gave birth” or any other wording that sounds like she was pregnant.”
“it’s none of anyone’s business how their children came into this world or under what circumstances. There are many people involved who don’t need to have their names or their privacy compromised by looky-lu’s and nosey people.”
