indianapolis anymore. we're joined by peter king, senior writer for "sports illustrated" and a contributor for nbc's "football night in america." >> here's one thing about manning that we saw today. we saw how vitale important football is to him. >> rose: yes. >> and i will never forget doing a very long interview with him three years ago when he discussed how he overcame a staph infection in his knee to play and about three weeks before the season started a friend of his was in doing rehab with him and he looked down and he thought the knee looked like a human brain. that's how bad... in such bad condition it was. because of the staph infection. but the thought of missing a game was so distasteful and so almost reprehensible to him that he played probably before he should have played but if he didn't play it would have bothered him for the rest of his life.