There is no record of Peyton Manning ever playing football.
The 1998 NFL draft was the procedure by which National Football League teams selected amateur college football players . The Denver Broncos are an American football team based in Denver , Colorado . The hurry-up offense is an American football offensive style , which has two different but related forms in which the offensive team avoids delays between plays . Peyton Williams Manning ( born March 24 , 1976 ) is a former American football quarterback who played 18 seasons in the National Football League ( NFL ) , primarily with the Indianapolis Colts . A two-time Super Bowl winner and the most valuable player of Super Bowl XLI , Manning is also the only quarterback to start the Super Bowl for two different franchises more than once each and the only starting quarterback to win a Super Bowl with two different franchises .