Tag Archives: Peyton Manning

Zeus Predicts that Broncos Will Win

By Robin Bates | Published: January 21, 2014

A passage in the Odyssey forecasts that Peyton Manning will win the Super Bowl.

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Mourning the Colts’ Loss

By Robin Bates | Published: January 14, 2014

The Indianapolis Colts’ playoff loss brings to mind a childhood poem, “Noonday Sun,” about losing a colt. Peyton Manning can also be regarded as a lost colt.

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The Return of King Peyton

By Robin Bates | Published: December 28, 2013

The excitement over Peyton Manning is like that of the townspeople for Thorin Oakenshield in “The Hobbit.”

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Manning vs. Brady, Hector vs. Achilles

By Robin Bates | Published: November 23, 2013

Once again Manning and Brady square off, reminding us of Achilles and Hector.

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Peyton Manning and the Maltese Falcon

By Robin Bates | Published: December 1, 2012

“The Maltese Falcon” captures the existential absurdity of Peyton Manning in a Broncos’ uniform.

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Fed, Peyton: Made Weak by Time & Fate?

By Robin Bates | Published: September 8, 2012

Peyton Manning and Roger Federer, in the twilight of their careers, bring to mind Tennyson’s Ulysses.

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Après Peyton, le Déluge

By Robin Bates | Published: September 8, 2011

News that Peyton Manning may be out for part or all of the upcoming football season puts me in mind of the future of the Geats after Beowulf’s death.

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What to Make of a Diminished Peyton

By Robin Bates | Published: December 11, 2010

Sports Saturday “The question that he frames in all but words,” Robert Frost writes in his “Ovenbird” sonnet, “is what to make of a diminished thing.” This poem has always had a special place in my heart.The ovenbird is not a bird that sings when June is bustin’ out all over.Rather, it is a “mid-summer and […]

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Manning vs. Brady, Hector vs. Achilles

By Robin Bates | Published: November 20, 2010

Sports Saturday Tomorrow will witness the fiercest rivalry in American football—and maybe in American sports—as Peyton Manning of the Indianapolis Colts travels to Boston to play against Tom Brady of the New England Patriots. Many are beginning to believe that football has never seen a quarterback rivalry that matches this one. Which of the two […]

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