It came with 11 minutes and 51 seconds gone in the second quarter. An eight-yard throw to Denver Broncos wide receiver Demaryius Thomas – and on 7.42 on Sunday evening, Mountain Time, Peyton Manning had broken the National Football League record for touchdown passes and further staked his claim to be the greatest quarterback in NFL history. That pass was the 509th for a touchdown by Manning, taking him past Brett Favre on the all-time list. And Favre, the indestructible “gunslinger” for the Green Bay Packers, took 302 games to reach his 508; Manning...
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