Peyton Manning is a player who is well-respected by his former teammates and coaches for how he played the game. The NFL legend's reputation was put into question by a documentary by Al-Jazeera. This 2015 Al-Jazeera documentary, titled The Dark Side, claimed that Manning was given a human growth hormone (HGH) in 2011 by pharmacist Charlie Sly.
Sly worked for the anti-aging Guyer Institute in Indiana in 2011. Manning quickly refuted the documentary and denied using any PEDs, saying it was completely made up:
“The allegation that I would do something like that is complete garbage and is totally made up. It never happened. Never. I really can’t believe somebody would put something like this on the air. Who said this is making stuff up.”
The former Indianapolis Colts star was playing for the Denver Broncos at the time of the documentary's release. Denver came out in defense of the seven-time All-Pro in a statement to People Magazine:
“Knowing Peyton Manning and everything he stands for, the Denver Broncos support him 100 percent. These are false claims made to Al Jazeera, and we don’t believe the report.
“Peyton is rightfully outraged by the allegations, which he emphatically denied to our organization and which have been publicly renounced by the source who initially provided them."
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