INDIANAPOLIS -- The record-breaking play some 17 years ago was like something drawn up by kids in the dirt. But it further established Peyton Manning as the NFL's greatest quarterback at the line of scrimmage.
Manning secretly told receiver Brandon Stokley he would give him the "smash symbol" -- a universal call players around the NFL know that signals the slot receiver runs a corner route and the outside receiver runs a hitch route -- if the Chargers gave him a certain look at the line of scrimmage pre-snap.
Manning surveyed the line, and the Chargers gave him the look.