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Whether Peyton Manning should retire after winning Super Bowl 50 is a question many football fans are asking. In short, yes, he should. This past season, Manning was a backup quarterback for the first time since his freshman year at the University of Tennessee.

Toward the end of the season, starter Brock Oswelier began to struggle and Manning, after returning from a foot injury, got his starting position back and was able to lead the Broncos to their third Super Bowl victory in franchise history. Like his boss, former Denver Broncos quarterback and current Broncos general manager John Elway, this is the perfect opportunity for Manning to ride off into the sunset and go out on top.

We’re used to Manning carrying his team, but from the time he took back the starting job under center until the end of the season, his performance wasn’t the greatest. Manning took back the starting job in the final week of the regular season, and the Broncos didn’t score over 27 points for the remainder of their postseason run.

Just look at the Super Bowl; the Broncos didn’t score a touchdown until the fourth quarter, but didn’t need more than that thanks to their defense. If the Broncos’ defense were just half as good as they are, Manning’s 141 passing yards wouldn’t have cut it, and the Panthers would’ve ran away with the victory.

Manning was asked after the Super Bowl if he was going to retire or not, but he gave the stock answer of having to think about it and talk to his family. Knowing how smart Manning is, everyone is aware he already thought about retirement, and within the next couple of weeks he will be announcing his expected separation as a player from the NFL.

There’s no reason Manning should continue to play, as there’s nothing more he can do in his career. He’s 39 years old, so he can’t be the one man show that he was 10 years ago. He can’t lead a team through a whole regular season and to another Super Bowl victory.

After all, with the injuries he’s had to deal with over the past few seasons, it just makes sense for him to retire. People are going to say that players like Joe Montana and Tom Brady are better because they’ve won four Super Bowls, but that does nothing to tarnish Manning’s legacy. Players like Manning don’t come around too often, and his career should be appreciated for what it is.

A man with five regular season MVP awards, the all-time record for passing yards and touchdowns, one Super Bowl MVP, and two Super Bowl victories to his credit should be considered as one of the best quarterbacks ever to play football.

After he retires, whether Manning gets involved with a general manager position or finds his way into sportscasting, his legacy will never be forgotten.

Source – http://www.westernherald.com/sports/article_ef83ab26-d0e9-11e5-97ca-0397cd4af440.html

My opinion – I think that he should retire. He isn’t exactly a new buck, he has had many good games. He is a great quarterback, but there are other players out there who deserve the opportunity to play for the Denver Broncos. Don’t get me wrong I like Peyton, I just think that he should retire and maybe become a coach or just support his younger brother on his way to success. Regardless, Peyton will leave a very hard legacy to beat.

Fighters make excuses for losses all the time, whether they admit it or not – excuses are simply apart of mixed martial arts. From cracked skulls, to not having enough money to train, all the way to being poisoned, we’ve heard it all.

Former UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman recently stated that he suffered a fractured foot prior to his loss to Luke Rockhold at UFC 194 this past December. Weidman made it clear he was not making an excuse, just informing fans what had happened. But, whether or not he realizes it, what he said is an excuse. The fight is in the past, so what happened prior to the fight doesn’t matter at this point. The public doesn’t need to know that he was injured, even if that is the truth. Why even bring it up?

There’s an obvious reason Weidman made it clear he was injured in the Rockhold fight — fighters need to be confident in their abilities and believe they can be the best. At the same time, however, fighters need to be humble in defeat. They can’t always assume there’s another reason they lost, other than the fact that their opponent was simply better than them on that given night. And that’s exactly what Weidman is doing — he likely made himself believe one of the only reasons he lost was because of the injury, and may want fans to believe the same.

On a side note, if he was indeed injured going into his fourth title defense, perhaps he should’ve thought through the possible consequences of fighting injured more carefully. Perhaps he should’ve pulled out of the fight, despite the backlash he would have almost guaranteed from fans. Perhaps it would’ve been worth it in the long run. Perhaps he would still be holding UFC gold.

I’m aware Weidman likely had good reasoning to fight injured: he hasn’t been overly active in the past few years; MMA is far from the highest-paid professional sport, therefore fighters often times need to jump at all opportunities; he wanted to avoid the backlash for pulling out from fans. All of those are fair reasons.

Weidman will have a chance to rebound from his first pro loss in an automatic rematch with Rockhold at UFC 199 in June, and he may win and become the champion again. He may prove that the injury did affect him, and that he wasn’t at the best of his abilities in his first fight with Rockhold. But if he wins, that shouldn’t be our thought process. If he wins in the rematch, we shouldn’t be recalling Weidman’s injury leading up to the first fight, because Weidman shouldn’t have revealed he fought injured in the first place.

This is a message to fans: you can’t put everything into this one injury and automatically assume Weidman defeats Rockhold 99% of the time. That could be the case, and we’ll find out who the better fighter is soon enough. But on paper, for now, anyways, Rockhold is simply a better fighter than Weidman. It was a close fight early on, but Rockhold found a way to win.

And finally, this is also a message to fighters: we don’t need to hear your excuses. It doesn’t matter if you were hurt or ill, or didn’t have the best training camp. Publicly saying afterwards you weren’t at your best during a fight won’t change anything, including the outcome of the fight.

Source – http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2016/2/15/10993202/ufc-chris-weidman-vs-luke-rockhold-injury-excuses-losses-opinion-editorial-mma-news

My oppinion – I compete in mixed martial arts and there are 3 pro fighters in my team and over 10 amature fighters. I agree that fighters need to stop making excuses for their losses. When you get inside the cage it is just you, your coaches may be telling you what to do ringside, but you are responsable for yourself the second you step in the cage. There is nobody to blame but yourself. For example, if you lost and after the fight you said you lost due to a leg injury you had before the fight then it is your fualt for cometeing with an injry because you could have called the fight before that. Coaches are not responsable for your losses ethire, this gose to all fighters. Your coaches are trying to help you and build you up, they want to see you suceed, don’t ever say your coach didn’t train you enough after a fight, if you needed more training YOU should have asked for it and worked for it. Almost all fighters have lost and its very easy to make excuses (believe me I know), but in the end we have nobody to blame but ourselves, all you can do is train harder because failure makes you stronger.

THE ISSUE:
The presidential candidate again crosses the line from debate to debasement.
THE STAKES:
Do his supporters really believe this is what makes America great?
Donald Trump has marketed himself as the politically incorrect presidential candidate, unafraid to say what others won’t.

It has taken him — and our political discourse — down some offensive and sometimes dark paths. This is the candidate who painted Mexican immigrants as rapists and drug dealers. Who suggested prisoners of war don’t qualify as heroes. Who mocked a disabled journalist. Who, when two supporters attacked a homeless man whom they apparently mistook for an illegal immigrant, shrugged it off, saying his fans are “very passionate.”
He has a particular penchant for demeaning talk about women. He cast Republican primary opponent Carly Fiorina as unelectable because of her looks. He suggested Fox News’ Meghan Kelly was menstruating when she asked him a pointed question about his crass comments about women. He said a key difference between him and other candidates is that the women in his life are more attractive.
The Internet is having trouble — or perhaps a field day — keeping up. Various websites catalog his top 10 offensive remarks, his top 15, his top 23, even his top 115.
Mr. Trump was talking to a crowd Sunday about torture when a woman shouted out a vulgar description of one of his opponents, Ted Cruz. Mr. Trump feigned offense: “She just said a terrible thing. You know what she said? Shout it out ’cause I don’t want to … OK, you’re not allowed say — and I never expect to hear that from you again, she said — I never expect to hear that from you again — she said he’s a —–” And then he repeated what she said. “That’s terrible. Terrible.”
And the crowd cheered.
If you want know the term, you can find it on the Internet. We consider it unprintable in this newspaper. Make of that what you will.
This is not about political correctness. It’s about maintaining a level of decency in our public discourse — and about the kind of example a president, and those who aspire to the job, ought to set. Those who buy Mr. Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America great again,” should ask themselves what’s so great about his thinly veiled, vulgar racism, jingoism and misogyny. How does that advance greatness? They should consider that, not so long ago — back, say, in the days of American’s Greatest Generation — a child would have had his mouth washed out with soap, figuratively or literally, for the kind of language Mr. Trump uses on the stump for all to hear.
It’s about the decency that’s very much part of national greatness.
It’s worth noting that the Federal Communications Commission bars profane language in broadcasts before 10 p.m. Imagine, then, a president whose State of the Union or Oval Office addresses were suitable only for late-night broadcast, and even then had to come with a parental advisory.
All of which is to say that Mr. Trump is not ready for prime time, much less.

Source – http://www.timesunion.com/tuplus-opinion/article/Editorial-Mr-Trump-s-vulgarity-6821801.php

My opinion- I am glad that he is speaking his mind, and standing for what he believes in even if others disagree. Not everyone is going to agree with you and that is fine, he should know that, but he should be more careful with his words considering since he is trying to become president. I think he should stop labeling groups and problems and tell what the problem is and propose a solution instead of calling out a group(s) on something that has little to no truth to it. On the contrary I think that he has received a lot of hate from media and from people who don’t really know about him, that just go with the crowd.