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Did an NFL Player Line Up for the Wrong Team During Sunday’s Pro Bowl? Picture and Video

Jan. 28, 2013 7:43am Jonathon M. Seidl

Jeff Saturday Lining Up for One Final Snap With Peyton Manning in Pro Bowl

Jeff Saturday lines up for the AFC to snap the ball one last time to Peyton Manning. (Source: screen shot)

No your eyes aren’t fooling you: that’s a picture of Packers center Jeff Saturday playing for the opposite team during Sunday’s NFL Pro Bowl in Hawaii. But before you burst out laughing, there’s actually a logical and touching explanation.

Saturday, retiring at the end of this season, played for both teams lined up on one play for the AFC to snap the ball one last time to Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning, his longtime former Colts teammate.

Saturday said it meant a lot to him that the Broncos quarterback, whom Saturday called a true friend, orchestrated the stunt.

“He’s got a little more pull than I got,” Saturday said. “He got it all set up and timed up for me, so it was really nice of him to do that.”

You can watch the gesture below:

Saturday played 13 seasons in Indianapolis, all with Manning – except 2011, when Manning was out with a neck injury. He signed with the Packers for his final season and on Saturday played later in the game for the NFC, snapping to Peyton’s brother, Giants quarterback Eli Manning.

Saturday’s last play on the field was a passing touchdown by Eli Manning.

Peyton Manning said it was nice for the NFL to allow the play to happen.

“It’s something that I’ll always remember,” he said, “that he’ll always remember to kind of get that one, final snap together after the thousands that we’ve taken together.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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GoodStuff
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 3:57pm
The GOP is caving on amnesty as we speak, and this is what the Blaze is talking about??

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- IndyServative
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 4:21pm
  @ GOODSTUFF
  
  Good grief, take a break now and then.
  
  Besides, you didn’t have to click on the story!
  
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- ERP
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:59pm
  @Goodstuff
  
  It’s a news website. If it’s news, it’s on the site, get it? There is much more to life than “That Guy”.
  
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- Weiners Wiener
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 1:01pm
  @GOODSTUFF — Don’t like it? Go start your own all-politics website. Simple.
  
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Carol in Indy
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 12:33pm
I do not consider playing in the PRO bowl meaningless. Your peers say you are not best in what you do and get paid a fortune while doing so.

These two men have made Indy proud for over a decade. I believe that the owner of the Colts, Jim Irsay is on oxy’s – norco’s ( hydro’s in general). His family needs to take away his laptop and the checkbook before he wakes up dead.

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- edmundburk
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 3:54pm
  @CAROL IN INDY- get stuffed, your not fit to smell Mr. Irsey’s jock. Peyton and Jeff good luck we’ll
  miss you!
  
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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:15am
Lame.. Buy him a rolex or a Mercedes you cheap bassterd….

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jrcess
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:14am
Did this guy go to Notre Dame?

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LukeAppling
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:07am
The NFL and the NBA have all-star games that are pathetic I will not watch ever it takes to thrill of the game away with such feeble effort by the players for money and a few moments on TV.

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phillips1990702
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:45am
Why is he retiring? He signed a two-year contract?

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- JeffMT
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:08am
  http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000114512/article/jeff-saturday-benched-by-green-bay-packers
  “Jeff Saturday benched by Green Bay Packers”
  By Kareem Copeland
  nfl.com
  Dec. 21, 2012
  
  This is why Saturday decided to retire – although he was voted to the Pro Bowl as an all star, by the end of the season he was no longer the starting center on his own team, the Green Bay Packers.
  
  The further irony is that his coach in Green Bay who benched him, Mike McCarthy, was also his coach in yesterday’s Pro Bowl.
  
  I wouldn’t be surprised if the ‘retirement’ decision gets changed during the off-season and Saturday returns to play elsewhere next season. It ended up being an awkward situation all the way around.
  
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- Coded-Dude
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 12:26pm
  I was under the impression that Saturday was ready to retire. He knew McCarthy was grooming Dietrich-Smith to take the spot and wanted to step down ahead of schedule. Saturday is plagued with old injuries and just can’t do what he once used to. /Packers fan.
  
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AnAmerican111
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:58am
Peyton is a class act and Saturday was a great center!
More of the classless “Professional” players should take a lesson in.

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- jmmjr49er
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:26am
  No, its a joke. The game should be abandoned. Maybe their wives can hold hands too!
  
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- KevINtampa
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:10am
  I would think that being center for Manning, who is known for running 99% of his plays with last second audibles, is probably one of the most challenging spots in all of football andSaturday always played it well.
  
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- A_CALL_TO_CONSCIENCE
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 3:00pm
  You can say that again. It was really cool they got to do that.
  
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RaydocX
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:40am
It was classy by Peyton and the NFL.
The grunts in the game are too often ignored.
As to the import of the game, i would much rather see this in the first or the second week of the season, during the exhibition games, when the starters aren’t playing anyway. The super bowl nominees could play, it would give the non starters in the ‘real’ practice games more game time to impress coaches, and winning conference could get the next Super Bowl site.

just thinkin’ out loud.

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- @leftfighter
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:58am
  Having been a former (albeit much lower level) Center/Guard, I can’t agree more.
  
  Outstanding that Peyton would lobby for and the NFL would grant Saturday the chance to do this.
  
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- Kalidor835
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 7:00pm
  I found it very cool and a sign of great respect from Manning.
  
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The-Monk
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:25am
Some of those football players really enjoy “playing for the other team”….

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mlimberg
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:18am
Wow… finally, a little class back in America.

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coachsmac
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:01am
Dang I thought that was Oregon and USC out there. I mean really, 62 – 35, Pro’s don’t score that much except in strip clubs and Golden Corral’s buffett!

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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:00am
I think that was great. These players go through so much together, they put each others bodies on the line for their teammates, and this shows class from the NFL to allow a final play together.

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SamIamTwo
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:44am
Weirdos….

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Eastinfection
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:31am
I guess Peyton really wanted to put his hands between Jeff’s “pillows” one last time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjwavGuTQSM

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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:21am
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Now that Obama has set his eye on making football safe. I wonder how much longer we have to enjoy the game?……..

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- gbo
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 4:11pm
  You will still be able to enjoy the game – just in a fundamentally transformed kind of way.
  
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Exidor
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:02am
No ceremonial **** pat?

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- MittensKittens
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:15am
  I don’t watch flag football…
  
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Gonzo
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 7:55am
I think they should just have an awards ceremony and skip the game. It’s beyond meaningless anymore.

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