Is this the end for Peyton Manning?

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As most pro football fans know by now, Peyton Manning, the future Hall of Fame QB of the Denver Broncos, had a horrible day yesterday. After completing only 5 of 20 passes and throwing four interceptions, Peyton left the game in the third quarter. Benched! This was his worst game in all of his NFL career. Turns out that he was trying to play while having a torn plantar fascia in his foot. In the days before the game, he could hardly even walk. Broncos head coach Gary Kubiak admitted that he should never have put the injured Manning in the game in the first place. But here's the question: what now? Will this injury heal and allow Peyton to return to his old form? Or has "old" become the operative word? At 39 years old, has he reached the point where his body just can't recover from injury as young Peyton's could? As a Peyton fan from way back, I still hope he can play long enough to win that second Superbowl. But it's not looking great right now.