{"id":800104,"date":"2026-03-08T09:12:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T09:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/800104\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T09:12:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T09:12:41","slug":"denver-broncos-history-peyton-manning-retired-10-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/800104\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver Broncos history: Peyton Manning retired 10 years ago today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As I was putting together the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milehighreport.com\/denver-broncos-discussion\/173031\/broncos-running-it-back-bad\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MHR Roundup post last night<\/a>, I saw that we are now 10 years ago today type situation with the Peyton Manning era. It really does feel like it wasn\u2019t all that long ago, but here we are\u2026 a decade since that era ended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Peyton Manning came to Denver in 2012 right after we collectively lost our minds during Tim Tebowmania and the wild and fun 2011 season. What Manning brought was absolute consistency at the position and with it confidence in the fan base exploded.<\/p>\n<p>Peyton Manning stats with Denver Broncos<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He would go on to have the greatest single regular season statistical season in NFL history with almost 5,500 yards and 55 touchdown passes. He would also finish among the franchises best quarterbacks of all-time and achieved that in just four short seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If you really want to go down the rabbit hole, there is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fXCnIG9OsR0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube video of every single touchdown<\/a> during his Broncos\u2019 career. All 152 of them, because there is that one quarterback keeper against the Dallas Cowboys we can\u2019t forget about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We won\u2019t talk about the decade in between his retirement and today too much other than to be thankful that the franchise finally found his heir in Bo Nix. We\u2019ll have a lot more quarterback highlights to draw from between now and the next 10 years too hopefully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As I was putting together the MHR Roundup post last night, I saw that we are now 10&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[232,231,258,14780,2426,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-800104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-broncos","9":"tag-denver","10":"tag-denver-broncos","11":"tag-denver-broncos-history","12":"tag-denverbroncos","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116192788292409660","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}