Tag Archives: Peyton Manning

Touching the Happy Isles One Last Time

By Robin Bates | Published: February 8, 2016

Peyton Manning limped rather than sprinted across the finish line but he still was victorious in probably what was his last game. The words of Walter Savage Landor’s dying philosopher come to mind.

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Peyton: Old Age Hath Yet His Honor

By Robin Bates | Published: February 4, 2016

Two narratives clash on Super Bowl Sunday: the return of the king vs. the aging king that must be overthrown. Is Peyton Manning Odysseus and the Panthers the suitors? Or is he the dragon who must yield to the next generation?

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Kobe: The Lone Wolf Going Down

By Robin Bates | Published: January 21, 2015

Kobe is both like and unlike Akela, the Lone Wolf in “The Jungle Books.”

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Peyton Manning as Poe’s Dupin

By Robin Bates | Published: October 25, 2014

Peyton Manning is like Edgar Allan Poe’s detective Dupin, who uses his keen mind to triumph over devious opponents.

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Austen, Moral Equivocation, and the NFL

By Robin Bates | Published: August 30, 2014

My love of the NFL runs me up against some real moral quandaries. Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte would understand.

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Maybe the Gulfs Will Wash Us Down

By Robin Bates | Published: February 8, 2014

Peyton Manning was not Homer’s Odysseus but Tennyson’s Ulysses.

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Seahawks: Unleashed, Endlessly Hungry

By Robin Bates | Published: February 3, 2014

Mary Oliver’s poem about hunting hawks about sums up last night’s Super Bowl.

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Is Peyton Manning Pitted against Puck?

By Robin Bates | Published: February 1, 2014

Tomorrow’s Super Bowl drama may be forces of order vs. forces of chaos. Or it may involve Denver trying to outwit a trickster Puck-like team.

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Competing Heroic Narratives in Super Bowl

By Robin Bates | Published: January 25, 2014

One Super Bowl narrative: Manning as the return of the king. Another narrative: Manning as Laius blocking the way of the next generation. Plus: Belichick-Welker in Oedipal drama.

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