CANTON, Ohio -- One of NFL's most decorated players helped close out the Pro Football Hall of Fame's grandest enshrinement weekend in its history Sunday night as Peyton Manning led the Hall's class of 2021 in a ceremony filled with tears, laughs, memories and a cascade of thank-yous along the way.
Drew Pearson, who was the only first-team selection to the All-Decade team of the 1970s who had not previously been enshrined in the Hall, led off the evening with an energetic presentation that set the tone for the evening and included showing the crowd "these skinny legs" that propelled him to the Hall of Fame as he pulled up his trouser legs for an ovation.