Brady steps up for embattled Manning

During his Monday morning appearance on Dennis & Callahan with Minihane, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady offered support for Peyton Manning as the Broncos quarterback denies a report that suggested he used performance-enhancing drugs in 2011. Both Sly and the Guyer Institute have also said he did not work at the clinic in 2011 when the drugs were allegedly sent to Manning.

A statement he made in response to the report was posted to YouTube Saturday. Sly, who also named other high-profile athletes on the secret recordings, told Al Jazeera the statements attributed to him “are absolutely false and incorrect”.

Peyton Manning is firing back at the Al Jazeera documentary that aired Sunday. At first he was supplied with human growth hormone from an Indiana-based pharmacist. The phraseology sounded careful enough to protect Al Jazeera but loaded enough to tar Manning. “I’ve got some built-up anger as you might understand”, Manning said. Davies did double down, claiming Peyton Manning hasn’t denied Ashley Manning received HGH shipments and noting that it’s still illegal in the United States in most instances.

“I think I rotated between being angry, furious”, Manning told ESPN.

Kudos to the Today Show hosts for pressing Davies on the issue – Peyton Manning’s wife receiving HGH is interesting if there’s evidence against Peyton Manning, but Al Jazeera has nothing of the sort and Davies was forced to admit that. State licensing records indicate that a Charles David Sly was licensed as a pharmacy intern in IN from April 2010 to May 2013, according to ESPN.

“I can’t speak for any other athlete”.

“We have not said that in the program”, said Davies, the reporter central to the story that set off a threat from Manning to sue the company.

Sly, was secretly videotaped in the undercover investigation alleging the drugs were sent to Peyton’s wife, Ashley. “But if they don’t feel that’s the best for the team, then I’ll respect that decision and do what I can to help the team”.

The NFL collective bargaining agreement, ratified in 2011, banned HGH.

“There is nothing I really want to add, because I don’t know; someone writes a story and to comment on the story that someone writes all the time, I don’t know the details of anything”, Brady continued. “It is that you don’t believe the person will be honest with you if you went to them and said give us an interview”.