No Worries - I Still Don't Like Peyton

An interesting take on the employer/employee relationship.

When Peyton Manning was initially being shopped around, he said his decision would not be based on money. He's rich. He has a ring. He's 36 years old.

In the same scenario, Jim Irsay, Colts' owner, said that letting Peyton go was not a financial decision.

Peyton was telling the truth. Jim Irsay was lying.

You can generally assume in any employer/employee dialogue, that the employer is lying, the employee is speaking the truth.

The rule is that the higher up on the ladder you climb, the more immoral you become and the easier it is to do.

Of course the situation in this case is not so simple. If every NFL team offered Manning $7.25/hour to play, he'd be making commercials. And Irsay had to make the decision he did because Manning is ancient and his health is in question and Irsay could not, in the current climate of avoiding unpleasant truths, actually be honest.

But in a big picture kind of way I still found the comments interesting and my theory rock solid.

I wouldn't lie about that. I am only a humble part time employee.