Manning rolls back the years

When Peyton Manning talks about his football mortality, acknowledging his physical shortcomings and scoffing at the notion that he plays as he did in his prime, it all makes perfect sense.

He is 36, coming off four neck surgeries and a lost 2011 season, and he’s struggling to get in sync with new team-mates in a new city as the clock on his career mercilessly ticks away.

Yet while we may have politely nodded in agreement Sunday night as Manning, in a hallway outside the Denver Broncos’ locker room at Sports Authority Field at Mile High, said: “I can’t do the same things I used to do, and I’m learning to adjust,” our head hurts from the twisted logic.