2012
Peyton: The Welcome Mat
Cartoon drawn for 9News KUSA TV Denver Dispatches From the Drawing Board: Nothing quite like signing a Hall of Fame quarterback to get the week started. Good stuff for a cartoonist. It should be great stuff for Broncos fans, but I get the feeling a lot of people don’t like adding Peyton Manning to the Broncos roster. Or more they don’t like the idea that Tim Tebow is about to be subtracted from it. The difference in the two quarterbacks is pretty complex. One can throw, read defenses and run a complex NFL offense from the line of scrimmage. The other one can’t. I like Tebow immensely. I like everything about him. But Peyton Manning he’s not. Manning gets you closer to the Lombardi trophy. Tebow gets you closer to the Heisman trophy. That’s the difference. I know I did a cartoon recently about Manning quitting while he’s still ahead. Here’s the link for it. That said, I’m not a doctor, so I kind of take it all back. Though I wouldn’t mind a doctors salary. Speaking of salaries, Peyton reportedly will sign for $95 million over 5 years. That isn’t too bad. Certainly not numbers cartoonists are used to seeing. Unless you were Charles Schulz, who made roughly $60 million a year in his prime. Yeah, you read that right. I can’t remember ever drawing three different cartoons on the same subject in the same day. Can I take the rest of the week off? Naw. THIS is too much fun. So what do ya do with Tebow? Trade him? To who, for what? Not a big market for running quarterbacks in the NFL. I wonder if Josh McDaniels wants him? I know. Bad joke. I say they give Tim his very own Tebow jersey concession kiosk in the South Stands. I mean someone needs to help subsidize Peyton’s $95 million contract. Got any better ideas. Well, let’s hear ’em!
