The apparent attempt to smear Peyton Manning on his way out the door continued unabated on ESPN’s Around the Horn, Monday afternoon.
Washington Post columnist and frequent Around the Horn guest Kevin Blackistone was asked by host Tony Reali “where he was” with the story regarding Peyton Manning’s alleged sexual assault twenty years ago:
It proves to me how institutions create and protect images. Whether the institution is the University of Tennessee or the fourth estate, which has done a curious job, those of us in the media, of covering this story over the last 20-plus years. And that it has taken a title IX lawsuit filed last Tuesday and a discovery by Sean king to remind everybody about what happened with Peyton manning while he was at the University of Tennessee. And this comes at a time when other athletes in the news, particularly black athletes, have had their past brought up time and time again and never seem to be able to escape it for whatever reasons. But Peyton manning has been successful thus far in escaping this past.