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If Apple weren’t invented in this new age of innovation, we seemingly wouldn’t have iPods or iPhones. The same can be said for owner Jim Irsay and the Indianapolis Colts. If they weren’t in dire need of a franchise quarterback, the Colts apparently wouldn’t have seen the emergence of Peyton Manning, the endearing star of the South’s most famous college quarterbacks.

The legacy will be his forever, even if the Colts are ready to cancel Manning Health Watchers, contemplating whether or not to part ways with Manning and move forward by selecting top QB prospect Andrew Luck with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2012 NFL Draft. For over a decade, Manning was a rifle-armed thrower and aired it out for a bottomless receiver core. Ever since he wore a Colts jersey, he’s been the all-encompassing icon in the smaller town of Indiana, emerging into one of the primary athletes in sports with a passer’s mentality.

But now, he honestly knows his days are numbered as a Colt and this exchange in a war of words has perpetuated a feud in what appears to be a broken ending to an unsteady relationship when Irsay and Manning traded words verbally Thursday, with Irsay calling him a “politician.” It would be foolish of the Colts to move on without Manning, the symbol of football in this country, a superstar Indianapolis can embrace deeply as he sold Sprint phones and tickets at Lucas Oil Stadium.

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