Peyton Manning rubbed the forehead on his bronze bust, situated on an eight-foot-tall pillar in the Broncos’ Ring of Fame Plaza outside Empower Stadium.
Then, as a crowd of around 1,000 fans cheered early Sunday afternoon, he admired the bust then patted its backside as if it were one of his wideouts.
The ex-Broncos quarterback soaked in the unveiling of his pillar ahead of his induction into the team’s Ring of Fame at halftime of the game against Washington. Manning said the past week “has been all about remembering my four years in Denver and how it all came about,” as he reflected from being an injured castaway in Indianapolis to winning Super Bowl 50 with the Broncos.