I’ll never forget that meeting. It was during Super Bowl week, in early February of 2012, and I’d been called in to a room in the Indianapolis Convention Center to discuss the offseason. At that point, since I’d gotten a job at NFL Network in Oct. 2010, I’d gone pretty much straight through—2010 season, 2011 lockout, 2011 season—and I was looking forward to things slowing down a little.
Then, they told me. They wanted me to be the point person on the Peyton Manning story. I was set to go home to Boston the following Monday, and they wanted me back in Indy two days later, with plans to have me effectively staking out until the Colts cut him.