News Item: Peyton Manning’s receiving stem cell therapy thrusts medical procedures back into sports spotlight
10. “Hmmm …Maybe since ‘Modern Family’ won a lot of Emmy Awards ,they might have a spot for me …A broken-down, ex-football-player, uncle-type role …”
9. With all the doctors working on him, see if they can qualify under President Obama’s new “Jobs Plan”, maybe get some federal funding out of it …
8. Will have time to figure out just what-the-heck Netflix is doing
7. Give Lorne Michaels a call, maybe hook again with ‘Saturday Night Live’
6. See if Google wants a All-Star endorser for their new “Google Wallet”
5. Two words – “Fantasy Football!!!”
4. Might check out Sarah Palin, see if she’s interested in hooking up with a “Legendary Quarterback”
3. “Hmmm … Yahoo has an opening…I can even do some
commercials – Yahooooooo …”
2. Actually, having bolts inserted into both sides of neck and will announce shift to WWE as new terror, evil, bag guy, “Peytonstein”
1. “Damn everybody, I’ve always wanted to be… a lumberjack”

Bonus Peyton Manning Riffs
Dan Childs: Peyton Manning’s Stem Cell Hail
Mary
Jay Glazer: Manning chooses speedier
recovery
Allen Barra: Goodbye to Peyton Manning, Greatest Quarterback of the 21st Century
Top Ten Cloves: Possible Reasons Peyton Manning
Threw Six Interceptions Last Evening
It’s a “Who Dat” Kind of World Now!
J. Thomas Duffy writes the satire blog The Garlic. This is cross posted from that blog. He is a Contributing Editor of The Reaction.
“When a highly visible celebrity athlete chooses to undergo an untested/unproven therapy, and if they happen to get better without knowing whether the therapy is what caused the improvement, they encourage many other people to ignore scientific evidence and to substitute hope and blind trust for proof,” he said. “The downside is that many people might be hurt by subjecting themselves to a risky procedure, or procedure with unknown risks, when there is no evidence of benefit to be gained.”
lets not forget the middle class folks with no options…I’ve heard of people spending their entire life savings on some stem cell therapy that never had a chance of working.