41.   Or if Manning is ready to go, he could start at small forward, Pippen at big guard and Majerle coming off the bench.

42.   Six months ago, Manning was on her way to work when she was engulfed in a fireball in the lobby of the World Trade Center.

43.   Still, Manning will be a marked man once he enters Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, where the crowd is sure to be hostile.

44.   That is why Manning will be at the American Academy of Pediatricians conference next month in Washington.

45.   The conventional wisdom was that Manning was the more accomplished quarterback at the moment but that Leaf had more potential because of his size and throwing arm.

46.   The Jets have never said that they believed Manning was the best player available, or that they would have picked him to play for them.

47.   There are probably only three or four quarterbacks in the National Football League who can make that touch throw and Manning is one of them.

48.   Though Manning is gone, he is hardly forgotten.

49.   Tinges of a Southern drawl color the many words of the Indianapolis Colts quarterback, a gentlemanly drawl, for Manning is the truest of gentlemen.

50.   Thus, speculation today that Manning is the prohibitive favorite is simply that.