A few years ago a story came out on the now defunct cable channel Al Jazeera about several athletes using HGH. A couple of those athletes are suing the company because they said the claims were totally false.
Peyton is not one of the athletes suing and now we know why.
In the past couple of months, the litigation has been shrouded in intense secrecy, but now some of the arguments pertaining to discovery efforts are emerging from cloak. The sides are currently warring over whether two top law firms — Gibson Dunn and David Wright Tremaine — have to hand over documents being claimed as privileged. What’s surprising is the prominent attention to Manning, one of the NFL’s all-time prolific passers, a five-time MVP and a two-time Super Bowl champion, including in 2015 when he led the Denver Broncos to success at the late age of 39 in the third-most watched T.V. program in American history.
According to memorandums from Al Jazeera, Davies contacted Manning’s CAA agent Tom Condon before the documentary aired to get comment on something that Sly had been recorded saying. Specifically, Sly stated, “I did part of my training at the Guyer Institute which is like this anti-aging clinic in Indiana. [Peyton Manning] and his wife would come in after hours and get IVs and s***. … So one thing that Guyer does is he dispenses drugs out of his office, which physicians can do in the United States it’s just not very many of them do it. … And all the time we would be sending [wife] Ashley Manning drugs. Like growth hormone, all the time, everywhere, Florida. And it would never be under Peyton’s name, it would always be under her name. … We were sending it everywhere.”
Nine days after Condon was contacted in December 2015, the prominent Gibson Dunn attorney Ted Olson called Robert Corn-Revere of DWT, the firm providing outside counsel to Al Jazeera.
“In their communications with DWT, the Mannings’ lawyers confirmed much of what Sly had said,” states unsealed court papers, although what was exactly said by Olson remains redacted.
But when it comes to Manning, who reacted strongly when the documentary came out by calling it a “total fabrication” and even was reportedly considering his own defamation lawsuit at one point, Al Jazeera has more to say.
As explained in Defendants’ Motion to Compel against Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Sly’s last-minute denials followed a visit to his family’s home by investigators hired by lawyers for National Football League player Peyton Manning … which prompted Sly’s sister to call 911. On the video, Sly appeared to be reading a statement that was prepared for him while sweating profusely, and his statements about Liam Collins’ character were clearly based on information that had been supplied to Sly. On top of that, the Mannings (through counsel) had already corroborated Sly’s most explosive claims, making his denials all the less believable.”
Peyton’s attorneys made a statement saying this new information is false, but one has to wonder if the NFL and Manning pressured Sly into making a denial, because it would have been very damaging to the reputation of the league if Peyton was caught juicing?
There was a lot of evidence that something was amiss and there were shipments confirmed to Manning’s wife, but the NFL decided to look the other way.
