what year was peyton manning's rookie year?
1998 NFL Draft
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 In 1982 , the United States Football League formed as a spring league , and enjoyed moderate success during its first two seasons behind such stars as Jim Kelly and Herschel Walker . After its spring 1985 season , the league , which lost a considerable amount of money due to overspending on players , opted to gamble on moving its schedule to fall in 1986 and filing a billion @-@ dollar antitrust lawsuit against the NFL and its television partners in an effort to stay afloat . When the lawsuit only drew a three @-@ dollar judgment days before the fall 1986 season was to begin , the USFL folded . 

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 After 18 seasons with the NFL , Peyton Manning received the 2016 ESPY Icon Award 

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 Peyton Manning and Leaf were widely considered the two best players available in the 1998 draft , and scouts and analysts debated who should be selected first . Many favored Leaf 's stronger arm and greater potential , while others deemed Manning the more mature player and the safer pick . Most observers , however , believed that it would not greatly matter whether Manning or Leaf was drafted first because either would greatly benefit his team . 

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 = = = 2004 NFL Draft and Arrival of Eli Manning = = = 

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 1946 was an important year in the history of professional football , as that was the year when the league reintegrated . The Los Angeles Rams signed two African American players , Kenny Washington and Woody Strode . Also that year , a competing league , the All @-@ America Football Conference ( AAFC ) , began operation . 
