Packers, other pro athletes named in Al Jazeera documentary on PEDs

Sly, who is now said to be living in Austin, Texas, told ESPN he was lying in the interview.

Manning released a statement through the Broncos PR office shortly after the report was published online Sunday, calling the allegation that he used PEDs “complete garbage” and “totally made up”.

At the end of the documentary, Al Jazeera notes that Sly said his statements about athletes were “false and incorrect”, but doesn’t elaborate further.

Peyton Manning is firing back at the Al Jazeera documentary that aired Sunday.

Al Jazeera’s report, titled “The Dark Side“, contends that steroids and other drugs were shipped to the home address of Manning in 2011 in the name of his wife, Ashley, so that the quarterback’s name was never attached to the shipments.

Manning did not have much to say about the explosive allegations of performance-enhancing drug use made against Peyton Manning on Saturday night, other than to defer any comment to the strong denials Peyton has since made.

“All the time we would be sending Ashley Manning drugs”, the pharmacist stated in the video.

Manning’s former team, the Indianapolis Colts, also issued a statement defending the quarterback, who played with them for 14 seasons before being signed to Denver in 2012. “Peyton, I would consider him a good friend”.

While Manning says he never received HGH from the Guyer Institute, he admits that he received treatment there while with the Colts. On Sunday, he told ESPN that “I was trying to pull one over on Collins to see if he had any idea of what he was talking about”.

The clean-cut 39-year-old is one of the icons of the National Football League and the most marketable player of his generation, earning around US$12 million (S$ 16.8 million) a year from endorsements, according to Forbes.

And in another development, Major League Baseball said it would investigate allegations made in the documentary that several of its players took banned hormone supplement Delta-2, even as a lawyer for the players refuted the charges.

“I think I rotated between being angry, furious”, he said. Manning told ESPN. “It really makes me sick”. “It’s not right. I don’t understand it”.

The head of the Guyer Institute, Dr. Gale Guyer, also blasted the accusations in a statement to the Denver Post.

Manning, speaking to Lisa Salters in the middle of a throwing workout, vehemently denied ever using performance enhancing drugs. Sly allegedly names Manning and other high profile athletes as having received HGH from the clinic.