Peyton Manning - The Superbowl - The Fame - The Sweet 16 Party?
March 12th, 2007 | by Kevin Morris |
I found this story while searching the web and thought it was hilarious. It just goes to show that these guys make a lot more money than their NFL contracts pay them.
Here’s the scoop: It seems that Peyton Manning got paid a whopping $200,000 for a one night appearance at a Sweet 16 Party. I have no real problem with this, I would have gone for $5,000, and 
danced just like Peyton for an extra $2,000. I guess Peyton hid behind the cake and yelled surprise at the opportune time to enthrall the attendees. It must have cost too much to have Peyton actually jump from the cake. Surely the cake jumping was a part of the negotiations, but was at least another $100,000 in special services fees.
Once again, let me state my problem is not with Peyton Manning on this, I would have taken the money too. My problem is this: I don’t think I ever got a lousy clown or even pony rides for any of my birthday parties, and here this kid gets a Superbowl MVP ?? I wonder how much it would have cost to keep Peyton Manning for the week? Now that would be cool, to wake up every morning and have a Peyton Manning in your room all tucked in to his sleeping bag in his footed jammies, you could feed him breakfast, find out what cartoons he likes to watch, show him to all your friends.
Maybe next year Daddy will negotiate the week long “Peyton Manning Happy Birthday Package”…and the pony rides too.
Kevin
