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FNR: How Close Were The Carolina Panthers To Drafting Peyton Manning?

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CHARLOTTE, NC - Next April will mark thirteen years since Peyton Manning was headed into the NFL Draft. Thirteen isn't a lucky number, and the Carolina Panthers, if legend holds true, weren't so lucky back in 1998.

"Peyton wanted to be the first pick in the draft," Archie Manning said Wednesday in a radio interview with a Charlotte-based sports radio station, WFNZ-AM, 610 The Fan.

The elder Manning confirmed there were serious talks about the Carolina Panthers putting together a package and dealing up for the first pick to select Peyton.

Read more: http://www.foxcharlotte.com/sports/How-Close-Were-The-Carolina-Panthers-To-Drafting-Peyton-Manning-111966734.html

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that could have changed the franchise's history in such a great way. instead we've had to deal with scrubs and a fanbase that makes excuses for them.

we have a chance to draft someone incredible who can change the face of the franchise in a big positive way for years much like peyton would have (and did in indy). yet, many fans are content with mediocre at best options at QB and want to trade that pick away. oh...take a look at what genius moves were made by the cards when they traded out of the #2 spot. mediocre franchises will remain mediocre franchises regardless of how many picks they get. like it or not, an elite QB can make this team dominant. look at the colts and the saints and what they have to work with.

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Richardson tried to get the league to take the #1 pick from the Colts and award it to the Panthers as compensation for GM Bill Polian jumping ship while still under contract.

After reviewing the situation, the league agreed compensation was due and decided to transfer the first pick...in the third round.

We used it to take Chuck Wiley :(

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Scot, you forget the deal that Polian was trying to put together with the Colts before he jumped ship. He was hoping to get McCormack's job and be President as well as GM. In the pricess he was trying to trade the house for the right to draft Manning. Then the job went to Mark Richardson, and Polian became the President and GM of the Colts.

Ah, memories... :)

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