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NFL World Reacts to Peyton Manning’s Induction to the Pro Football Hall of Fame

Published 08/09/2021, 8:45 AM EDT

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Peyton Manning is undoubtedly one of the greatest quarterbacks to have ever played in the NFL. A two-time Super Bowl champion and a record five-time MVP award winner, Manning has enjoyed a career worthy of being a Hall of Famer.

Bowing out of the NFL with a Super Bowl win in 2015, it was a question when and not if Peyton Manning would be enshrined among the sport’s greatest athletes.

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And on Sunday evening that’s exactly what happened. The legendary quarterback was formally inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame for his illustrious career.

Following his induction, Twitter was abuzz. With tweets flooding in, we take a lot at some of the standout reactions to Manning’s Hall of Fame moment.

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Manning’s bust draws a lot of attentions

Apart from his stirring speech, there was something else that caught the eye of fans, Manning’s bust which now makes its way into the Hall of Fame.

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Cracking jokes about the wide forehead, some fans feel that the bust doesn’t look anything like the former Denver Broncos player.

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All jokes aside, Peyton Manning’s legacy is one that deserves to be celebrated. And now it shall remain immortalized in the halls of the Pro Football Hall of Fame at Canton, Ohio.

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Shivayan Roy

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Shivayan Roy is currently an NFL writer at EssentiallySports. After completing his Masters Diploma in Journalism from the Asian College of Journalism, Roy functioned as a reporter for Goal.com and extensively covered the FIFA U-17 World Cup.
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