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After Dallas Cowboys malcontent Terrell Owens, no NFL player elicits as much fan emotion as Manning. Love him, hate him--either way, he's that transcendent athlete, perched in the public eye, who always gets a rise. And now he's truly in the spotlight. After nine pro seasons of compiling stunning individual stats while his teams tasted postseason failure, Manning has his shot at a title: his high-octane Colts are favored to bounce the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XLI, which will be played Feb. 4 in Miami...
...Manning haters. Why? Start with the TV spots' saturation. "You know he did something to your favorite team," says Spikes, understanding, though not agreeing with, the backlash against the ads, "and then you have to look at him after every commercial break." Some fans are uncomfortable with a player who is so serious, and often sour, on the field morphing into a charmer on camera. "I find the marketing of his personality contrived," says Spencer Wilking, 27, a Concord, Mass., native and Patriots devotee still reeling from the championship-game loss. "It rubs me the wrong...
Peyton need look no further than his father for another player who charmed fans through losing. Poor ol' Archie Manning would have been a Hall of Famer if those Nawlins 'Aints had had any good players. But if Archie had won a Super Bowl, he would be another Bob Griese...
...appellation for which there have been more interpretations than the Rosetta Stone?at age two. Neil was playing with a toy stethoscope, and Danny burst out, "This kid is gonna be a doctor." As Neil grew up, Danny enthusiastically envisioned him as America's greatest baseball player and, later, the world's foremost comic genius. He backed up this boosterism with hard work: Danny dragged Neil into writing. Both brothers say that without Danny's coaching, the shy and initially indolent Neil would never have developed the craft...
...room Los Angeles dwelling, of white brick and wood, houses an extensive collection of modern art (including works by Modigliani and Edward Hopper) and sits above three tiers of terraces, with the obligatory swimming pool on the bottom tier, although Simon does not swim. He is a passionate tennis player, yet the house has no tennis court. "First you wind up providing the balls, then the Cokes?there's no end to it," Simon explains. "I decided to join a tennis club instead, which was, at one point, my only contact with mankind." While the house is decorated to resemble...