While the world waits to hear whether Denver Broncos quarterback and Super Bowl champion Peyton Manning will hang up the cleats or play in 2016, his legacy in college football is etched in stone.
Legend.
The ultimate "Vol for life," Manning signed on the dotted line with former head coach Phillip Fulmer and joined the Tennessee program in 1994 instead of Ole Miss, where his father, Archie, starred. That decision, coupled with some horrible injury luck to the quarterbacks around him during his first year, set the groundwork for what turned out to be one of the golden ages of the Tennessee football program.