Because he’s so focused on the process, Peyton Manning’s Broncos teammates knew not to expect a big fuss last night when he broke the league’s all-time touchdown record.
But they also knew what it meant.
“You kind of just know you’re part of something big,” Broncos tight end and former Colts teammate Jacob Tamme said, via Jeff Legwold of ESPN.com. “You know someday you’re going to reflect on it, think about it, but in the moment he wants to win games and we want to win games. But someday, yes, it’s going to be a good story.”
Even for defensive players, who were about to take the field again, it was hard to ignore.
“I wasn’t really paying attention, I don’t get to see him really, we’re looking at our sheets, talking about what we’re going to do on the next play, things like that,” linebacker Von Miller said. “But we were looking at our stuff, and all of a sudden it was like a concert, all the phones were up all over the stadium, you could feel it. We knew it was going to happen. And you had to watch.”
And those are the guys with ringside seats, so imagine what the fans in the stands felt.