Walking gingerly with the football-scarred gait of an old quarterback, Archie Manning pulled two leather gloves from his coat pocket.
"On Jan. 1, I made a resolution not to bite my fingernails," he told me Sunday after the Broncos beat New England 20-18 in an AFC championship game so tense, everybody in Colorado had to be reminded to breathe. "So I wore these gloves the whole game."
Then the man Peyton Manning fondly calls Daddy paused in his tracks outside the Denver locker room, curled his fingers and inspected the nails.
"And I still got 'em," Archie Manning declared, a grin erasing every line from his 66-year-old face.