Peyton Manning rap and Wes Welker admission dominate sports talk

Peyton Manning, right, and Eli Manning in a DirecTV commercial. (Getty Images)

Like the 49ers? cornerbacks, I woke up with Peyton Manning on my mind.

Blaring from the other room, as my girlfriend prepared for work, were the exceedingly glee anchors on NBC?s ?Today? show, gushing about Peyton?s rap video. And all I could think was ? at least this is a nice escape from Wes Welker.

Thursday night, mercifully, there is an actual game (though it?s not an actual actual game), with the Broncos playing at the 49ers. But for now, everyone is talking about Welker being mocked by Bill Belichick and Manning mocking Color Me Badd.

The new Broncos wide receiver told Sports Illustrated that last season, the Patriots coach would admonish him in front of the team.

?It was just kind of hard,? Welker told SI, ?one of those deals where you have to endure him, put up with him. I felt like there came a point where he was (voice tails off) ? But he does it to everybody, it?s the way he is.?

Naturally, some New England fans now believe Welker wimped out and went running from a possibility at another Pats AFC title because the coach was a meanie. Look. First of all, we don?t know the severity of what Belichick was doing, so who are we to judge how harsh it was or wasn?t? But even if we all found out exactly what he did to Welker, and the judging fans conclude that it was, certifiably, bearable ? who cares, because obviously it wasn?t bearable to Welker, and he has the reputation of being a dedicated teammate and a voracious worker. (We?re talking about a guy with a perpetual chip on his disproportionately sized shoulders, after first not receiving college offers from D-I schools, then going undrafted.)

Here?s what?s going through Welker?s head during the offseason: ?So I can stay in New England for two years and $10 million, play for a team with some holes on it and get embarrassed a bunch by the coach. Or I can go play with Peyton Manning and the team with one of the best defenses ? and make $2 million more.?

So, welcome, Welker.

As for the Peyton and Eli Manning rap video, ?Football On Your Phone,? at first I was all fired up because 1) Peyton is super funny in commercials, and 2) DID YOU SEE ELI?S HAIR?

But right away, I was thinking ? who exactly are they supposed to be? Of course, the video was in the same style of the ?Saturday Night Live? videos with Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake. (Though the funniest thing J.T. ever did on ?SNL? was being a contestant on the game show ?What?s That Name,? and he couldn?t remember the name of people in his life, such as NSYNC?s Chris Kirkpatrick ? or a woman he just slept with.) In those videos, the ?SNL? guys are mocking the soulful raps of the early 1990s. Eli fit the part, but Peyton? He looked like a backup dancer in the Michael Jackson ?Beat It? video.

And I wanted to laugh at the lyrics, but they weren?t, like, funny. (Though I did release a minor guffaw when they said, ?Look at this guy using his phone as a phone. Your phone ain?t for callin?, your phone?s for footballin?!?)

Benjamin Hochman: bhochman@denverpost.com or twitter.com/hochman

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