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What Are The Allegations Against Peyton Manning?
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Thirteen years ago, USA Today obtained 74 pages of explosive court documents o
n Peyton Manning, Archie Manning, the University of Tennessee, and Florida Sou
thern College that revealed allegations of a sexual-assault scandal, cover up,
and smear campaign of the victim that was so deep, so widespread and so ugly
that it would've rocked the American sports world to its core. Yet USA Today n
ever released those documents for reasons I can't explain.

Mel Antonen, now a baseball writer for Sports Illustrated, wrote about the doc
uments for the paper on Nov. 3, 2003. Three days later, Christine Brennan, lon
gtime sportswriter for USA Today wrote an op-ed about Peyton Manning and the d
ocuments entitled, “Do you really know your sports hero?” but the scandal pr
etty much died right there.

Facebook wouldn’t be invented for three more months. Twitter didn’t come for
three more years. The word “viral” was still only being used to describe th
e spread of infectious diseases.
But when the documents were sent to me on Tuesday, two days after the Super Bo
wl, it was immediately clear to me that had the world actually known what they
contained, it’s doubtful that Peyton would have ever been the “swell, golly
, gee-whiz” pitchman for Nationwide Insurance, DirecTV or Papa John’s Pizza.
Certainly, evangelical op-eds calling him “squeaky clean” and positioning P
eyton as the arbiter of all things good and decent in the world simply wouldn
’t be the case.

But as his career winds down, we're left to grapple with the reality that ther
e is credible evidence that Peyton and the Manning family knowingly, willingly
, wantonly ruined the good name and career of Dr. Jamie Naughright, a respecte
d scholar, speaker, professor, and trainer of some of the best athletes in the
world.
On the morning after Super Bowl 50, I posted a picture on my Facebook page of
Cam Newton smiling and embracing Peyton Manning after the game and simply aske
d why that warm photo wasn't being talked about instead of Cam being frustrate
d at the post-game press conference. It has since been shared more than 234,00
0 times and seen by more than 20 million people. It now has nearly 6,000 comme
nts, but on that morning, just one leaped out at me, which mentioned something
to the effect of "Peyton sexually assaulted a girl in college."

Now, I get a lot of crap posted on my Facebook page, but I decided, on a whim,
to Google "Peyton Manning sexual assault University of Tennessee." That's how
I discovered the two old USA Today articles about the case. Later that day, w
hen I wrote an article on the racial double standards in the media between Pey
ton Manning and Cam Newton, I decided to mention the sexual assault case, and
how the allegations had somehow slid right off of Peyton like virtually every
other mistake he has ever made in his career.
Less than 24 hours later, a source who claimed to see my article on the racial
double standard, sent me a 74-page court document from Polk County court in F
lorida. Sitting in the San Francisco airport, waiting for a flight home, I ope
ned the PDF, began reading, and felt like I had stumbled on to state secrets.
I literally moved to where nobody could see my computer screen.
While Peyton Manning is not the president of the United States, in a land wher
e football is king, he is the Captain America of sports and certainly one of t
he best quarterbacks of all time. He's also a prolific pitchman, the friendly
face of several multi-billion dollar corporations.
This document says, in essence, that it's all a facade, an act, a well-designe
d for-profit creation, maintained and manicured at all cost. For me, it was li
ke reading proof that the first Apollo moon landing was really a fictional tal
e filmed in a Hollywood studio designed to dupe us all. That flag, planted in
the moon, seemingly blowing in the wind, was a ruse after all. Maybe B.o.B. wa
s right on this one fact.
I read every single page in the airport before I boarded my flight. Maybe a go
od hundred times, I wondered to myself, Why — and how — had all of this been
kept secret for so long?
Titled "Facts of the Case," and submitted to the court by the plaintiff's lawy
ers, the document, which warrants many more takes and reflections than what I
will offer today, is simultaneously shocking, disgusting, painful, and infuria
ting. It offers us the living, breathing human names and faces of the individu
als the American sports machine is willing to mow down in the name of profit a
nd fame.

To begin with, Dr. Jamie Naughright was not "a girl" sexually assaulted by Pey
ton Manning; she was an esteemed professional widely admired by students and p
eers alike at the University of Tennessee, where she was the Director of Healt
h & Wellness for the Men's Athletic Program. Originally from New Jersey, Naugh
right had made Knoxville her home away from home.
In 1991, she earned her B.A. from the University of Tennessee in Exercise Phys
iology with a Minor in Football Coaching (I didn't even know such a minor exis
ted). A year later, with a 3.7 GPA, she earned her Master's Degree in Health E
ducation and Promotion. A few years later, with a 3.925 GPA, she earned her do
ctorate from the University of Tennessee in Health Education and Wellness.
In fact, Jamie Naughright had been a staple across all sports programs at the
University of Tennessee and had more tenure than most of the football staff, i
ncluding the head coach at the time, Phillip Fulmer.

Starting as a student in 1988, Naughright devoted her entire life to the Unive
rsity of Tennessee athletic program. She was a student trainer for the women's
athletic programs and a supervisor for intramural sports on campus. From 1989
-91, she was the student trainer for the men's athletic department. After earn
ing her bachelor's degree and entering grad school, she became the graduate as
sistant trainer for the men's athletic program for two years. Gifted and respe
cted throughout the campus, she was hired as the assistant trainer for the ent
ire men's athletic program in 1993, following a year as a full-time intern.
After two years in that role, she was hired as the Director of Health and Well
ness for the Men's Athletic Program. In that position she developed widely acc
laimed educational and medical programs for students and oversaw the drug test
ing of all of the male athletes. She presented academic papers, served as an i
nstructor and lecturer for college courses, and traveled frequently with stude
nts and staff to conferences all over the country. She started successful comm
unity projects and raised funds for local charities.
While serving as the Director of Health and Wellness, Naughright also was the
head trainer for Tennessee's track and field program, which includes cross cou
ntry, indoor, and outdoor athletics. In that position she hired and trained 25
staff members, oversaw all medical care for every track and field athlete, se
rved as the medical director for large events, coordinated annual physicals an
d supervised weekly drug testing. So many athletes — which would eventually i
nclude medal-winning Olympians — developed such a deep respect for Dr. Naughr
ight that she would be requested to travel with them to international events a
nd world championships.

In addition to all of her other responsibilities, Naughright served as the ass
ociate athletic trainer for the men's football program. Where you live probabl
y determines how much you know or care about Southeastern Conference football.
But in small- to medium-sized cities across the south — places like Knoxvill
e, Tuscaloosa, Baton Rouge, Gainesville — SEC football is just a little more
important than God. The years Naughright was employed as the associate trainer
by the men's football program, from 1996-98, were arguably the three best yea
rs in the modern history of the program, as the team won back-to-back SEC cham
pionships and the national title. Dr. Jamie Naughright was as an absolute forc
e of nature in the University of Tennessee's sports program.
At that time, Naughright's education, training and ascension through the ranks
of the University of Tennessee's athletic program should have culminated, aft
er more than 10 years of service to the institution, with her being able to la
nd any job she wanted. When football teams win SEC championships and national
titles, key employees can pretty much dictate where in the sports world they w
ant to work next. If Dr. Jamie Naughright was a man that likely would've been
the case for her as well.
As an undergraduate in 1989, Naughright, who had interned for a year with the
women's athletic programs (including the world-famous UT women's basketball te
am), was transferred to the men's programs. According to court documents and a
ffidavits, her boss, associate trainer Mike Rollo, perceived Naughright to be
a lesbian. Rollo, who had just left working with a group of young women he als
o thought to be lesbians, allegedly began calling Naughright "c--t bumper." Th
is wasn't a rare occurrence or something he said to her only in private; he al
legedly called her that in front of others. For three years, until 1992, when
Naughright built up enough courage to complain, she said she was almost exclus
ively called "c--t bumper," or "bumper" for short, by a variety of staff membe
rs in the program (see court documents, pages 5-7; all subsequent references a
re to these).

According to the allegations in the documents, Rollo regularly referred to the
women's teams, known as the Lady Volunteers, as the Lady Lickers. Naughright,
who is not a lesbian, said she was told by Rollo that she would just have to
get used to hearing such vulgarities. Since she was one of the first women to
work in the men's program, the 20-year-old Naughright decided to endure the ab
use if it meant she could serve as a pioneer of sorts for women in sports. Aft
er Naughright issued a formal complaint, Rollo and other staff members alleged
ly were ordered by administrators to cease the practice. While the name "c--t
bumper" ceased, Rollo and the staff continued to call her "bumper" and would f
requently add other sexual adjectives to it (see page 8).
Determined to persevere without jeopardizing her career, Naughright began writ
ing policies for the program prohibiting foul or abusive language. First she i
nstituted the policies for athletic training rooms, then later the male cheerl
eading program. Eventually she would train a variety of student athletes on th
e proper and professional use of appropriate language.
In the fall of 1994, Peyton Manning entered the University of Tennessee footba
ll program as the already-famous son of legendary college and pro football sta
r Archie Manning. That semester, his first on campus, some type of incident in
volving Manning and Naughright occurred. By request of the counsel of Peyton M
anning, the details of that incident have been sealed and three-and-a-half pag
es concerning it have been redacted from the permanent record (see pages 11-14
).
Whatever happened, Naughright claims it colored and informed the professional
interactions between Naughright and Manning from that time on and caused Manni
ng to consistently harbor anger toward her. Yet in spite of the drama, Naughri
ght served as the medical director for the NCAA Track and Field Championships
in 1995 and was a member of the training staff for the Olympics trials for the
1996 Games in Atlanta.
To say that her problems with Peyton Manning boiled over in 1996 would be unde
rstating it.
On Feb. 29 of that year, Naughright, at that point the university's director o
f health and wellness, was in a training room, examining what she thought migh
t be a possible stress fracture in Manning's foot. At 6 feet, 5 inches, his fe
et dangled off the edge of the table. Manning allegedly then proceeded to scoo
t down the training table while Naughright examined his foot. At that point, s
he said, he forcefully maneuvered his naked testicles and rectum directly on h
er face with his penis on top of her head. Shocked, disgusted, and offended, N
aughright pushed Manning away, removing her head out from under him (see pages
14-15). Within hours, she reported the incident to the Sexual Assault Crisis
Center in Knoxville (see page 18).
According to the court records, Manning initially denied the incident ever too
k place. It was a calculated risk. He was the star quarterback, a Heisman trop
hy hopeful, and a likely No. 1 pick in the NFL Draft. While Naughright was now
a respected member of the staff, Manning was the star, the savior of Tennesse
e football. It was his word against hers.

While Peyton Manning is not the president of the United States, in a land wher
e football is king, he is the Captain America of sports and certainly one of t
he best quarterbacks of all time.

When Rollo learned of the complaint, he allegedly concocted a story that Manni
ng actually pulled down his pants to moon another student-athlete, Malcolm Sax
on, who was nearby. According to Rollo, after mooning the student, Naughright
just happened to move her head right into Manning's pelvic region. Rollo ackno
wledged under oath that he was the first person to use the word “mooning.”
One person, though, could settle all of this: Malcolm Saxon.
And, in fact, he did settle it. In an affidavit, Saxon refuted Manning's story
and made it clear that Manning never mooned him. In a letter to Manning, Saxo
n, who stated that he lost his eligibility as a student-athlete over it, pract
ically begged him to come forward and tell the truth (see page 20). Here's an
excerpt from the letter:
"First, I have stuck to my same story throughout this drama. I told Mike Rollo
the next day and Coach Fulmer a week or two afterwards. I had nothing to hide
at that point and I have nothing to hide today. I have never been on Jamie's
side or on your side (contrary to what the athletic department was telling you
and telling her). I stuck to the truth and I lost my eligibility for it. My r
edshirt request sat on Mike Rollo's desk for months as the process was going f
orward. I'm not angry about it anymore, just getting a little tired of it!!
"Peyton, you messed up. I still don't know why you dropped your drawers. Maybe
it was a mistake, maybe not. But it was definitely inappropriate. Please take
some personal responsibility here and own up to what you did. I never underst
ood why you didn't admit to it...."
Saxon goes on to tell Peyton things like:
"Coming clean is the right thing to do.

You have shown no mercy or grace to this lady who was on her knees seeing if y
ou had a stress fracture.
You might as well maintain some dignity and admit to what happened.
Your celebrity doesn't mean that you can treat folks this way."
For anybody other than Peyton Manning, such damning statements from a fellow s
tudent who had no dog in the fight would have been the nail in their coffin. A
s a general rule, it's not just gross to smash your testicles on a woman's fac
e, it's a crime.
I'm embarrassed to even be typing such things, but imagine if a grown man forc
ed his genitals on to the face of your daughter or sister or mother or beloved
colleague. What would you think about that? Would you tell your wife, "Well,
that's gross, honey. How was the rest of your day?" Would you ask your daughte
r, "What she did to deserve that?" Of course you wouldn't. You'd be outraged.
When Rollo was asked, under oath, if the woman he had known for more than seve
n years would respond in such a way to being mooned, he repeatedly said no (se
e pages 15-16). Yet he allegedly concocted the mooning narrative, nonetheless.
Instead, the school asked Naughright to leave. Having poured her heart and sou
l out to the University of Tennessee for nearly 10 years, she agreed, as a par
t of a settlement agreement, to part ways.

Before she left, though, two staff members of the school, according to the doc
uments, asked Naughright if she would consider blaming the entire incident not
on Manning, but on another athlete — a black one. According to Naughright, t
he staff members (named as Mr. Wyant and Mr. Rollo) went so far as to actually
name a specific black athlete she could blame it on. Of course, she refused (
see pages 18-19).
In her remaining time at the university, Naughright testified that Manning, in
her presence, on two separate occasions, deliberately reenacted the sexual as
sault on other student athletes to terrorize her. On another occasion he alleg
edly called her a "bitch" in front of other athletes after snatching a marker
used to label drug-test specimens from her hand and throwing it across the roo
m (see page 22).
When Naughright finally left the University of Tennessee it was both heartbrea
king and a great relief. She was hired to be an assistant professor and the pr
ogram director of the Athletic Education Training Program at Florida Southern
College. For more than three years she served Florida Southern with great dist
inction. She received, according to the court documents, regular raises, outst
anding reviews, and was credited for helping grow the program in measurable wa
ys.
In 1998, she served as the head athletic trainer for the U.S. women's track an
d field program in Beijing. Two years later, she was hired to be the head athl
etic trainer for the both the men's and women's USA track and field teams in t
heir competition versus Canada. Her professional life had clearly turned a cor
ner. Beloved both by athletes and her colleagues, Naughright had decided she'd
never discuss the sexual assault by Manning publicly. In fact, both she and M
anning signed a confidentiality agreement when she left the University of Tenn
essee that they would not discuss it.
Yet, in 2001, after moving on and revitalizing her career, everything came cra
shing down again. Now a quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts, and more famou
s than ever, Manning violated the confidentiality agreement in a way that coul
d not be undone. It has scarred Naughright like a scarlet letter to this very
day.
On May 16th, 2001, Naughright returned to Florida after accompanying her stude
nts on an educational and medical trip to South Africa. When she arrived at he
r office, she found a large manilla envelope in a receptacle on her door with
the words "Dr. Vulgar Mouth Whited" printed on it (see page 1). Whited was Nau
ghright's married name for most of her time at the University of Tennessee. Sh
e was immediately disturbed. Other employees testified that the envelope had b
een there for a few days before she arrived home from South Africa.
In it, were Xerox copies from some type of publication. It appeared to be writ
ten by Peyton Manning and it was about her. Colleagues who saw her after openi
ng it testified that she was shaken up by what she read. Manning and his fathe
r, Archie, had written a book called "The Mannings" and perhaps wanting to put
their stamp on the incident in Knoxville before it ever reached the public, t
hey threw Naughright under bus.
Her supervisor at Florida Southern had already opened the envelope and read wh
at was in it. What Manning said about her ruined her career at Florida Souther
n and in college athletics once and for all. After years of amazing reviews an
d great work at the university, the controversy from the book and the stress i
t created eventually caused Dr. Jamie Naughright to be let go, once again, for
doing nothing wrong.
It appears that Peyton and Archie Manning thought Naughright would accept what
they did to her quietly. They were wrong. This time, she did file suit agains
t Peyton Manning, Archie Manning, the ghostwriter John Underwood, and the publ
isher Harper Collins. Manning and his lawyers asked for the case to be dismiss
ed, but Polk County Circuit Judge Harvey A. Kornstein not only denied the moti
on but put Peyton Manning, his father, and the others on blast. In his stateme
nt, he said:
"Even if the plaintiff is a public figure, the evidence of record contains suf
ficient evidence to satisfy the court that a genuine issue of material fact ex
ists that would allow a jury to find, by clear and convincing evidence, the ex
istence of actual malice of the part of the defendants.

"Specifically, there is evidence of record, substantial enough to suggest that
the defendants knew that the passages in question were false, or acted in rec
kless disregard of their falsity. There is evidence of record to suggest that
there were obvious reasons to doubt the veracity of Peyton Manning's account o
f the incident in question. The court further finds that there is sufficient e
vidence to permit the conclusion that the defendants entertained serious doubt
s as to the truth of the passages in this case."
In other words, Judge Kornstein said that there is evidence to support the con
clusion that Peyton Manning lied in his book about the incidents and knew that
he was lying about the incidents.

Under deposition, it was learned from their ghostwriter, John Underwood, that
Archie Manning, speaking of Dr. Jamie Naughright said, "He didn't really like
this girl" (see page 24).
Playing a bit of good cop, bad cop, Peyton said, "I certainly didn't dislike h
er. I thought she had a vulgar mouth, but I always tried to be nice." Peyton w
ent on to describe a few favors that he did for Dr. Naughright, including one
on a trip to Virginia, where, at Naughright's request, he gave some younger st
udents a ride somewhere (see page 25).
When forced to testify about this incident in a deposition, attorneys asked Pe
yton to describe a specific incident when Dr. Naughright had a "vulgar mouth."
He could only think of one — it was during the Virginia trip. According to M
anning, Dr. Naughright said to him, "These motherf---ers are yours. Get these
motherf---ers off my hands for a little while."

It appears that Manning, who was under oath, completely concocted this story o
ut of thin air. Again, just as he expected the student athlete, Malcolm Saxon,
to go along with the story of his mooning Naughright, he assumed that the ple
thora of witnesses in Virginia would also go along with his new lie. Unfortuna
tely for him, they didn't (see page 26).
On the trip to Charlottesville, Va., five University of Tennessee students wer
e selected to go to the NCAA's annual APPLE Conference, a training symposium o
n substance-abuse prevention and health promotion for student athletes and ath
letic department administrators. One was Manning. Three were teammates from th
e football team: Eric Lane, Scott Pfeiffer and Tyrone Hines. The last, Geno De
vane, was a track and field athlete.

The other four students, all juniors and seniors, were all older than Manning,
who was a sophomore. Under oath, they each testified that Manning never gave
them a ride anywhere that night and never would have. It was a peculiar story.
But the strangest — and most damning — part of their testimony, though, was
that they each made it abundantly clear that they never heard Naughright say
one vulgar word that night or any other. Devane, a medical student at the time
of his testimony, said, "I can assure you that I would remember. I would have
been very upset if that had occurred. That type of language would have been c
ompletely out of character because she was always very professional around me
and other student-athletes."
Furthermore, Devane recalls very clearly who drove the athletes that night and
it wasn't Manning; it was Eric Lane (see page 28).
Devane's testimony gets even more damning. Line by line, and statement by stat
ement, he repeatedly testifies, "I unequivocally state that this did not occur
," regarding virtually every aspect of the story Manning concocted.

For some, the testimony of Eric Lane can be considered even worse than that of
Devane. Lane was not only Manning's teammate, but also his fullback on offens
e. At the time of his testimony he was an employee of the University of Tennes
see and in the final year of law school. He also testified that he could not r
ecall any such thing ever being said or done by Naughright (see page 29).
Jill Griffin, the head of the Metropolitan Drug Commission in Knoxville, who w
as also on the trip, roomed with Naughright and spent a great deal of time wit
h her, testified that she never heard Naughright say a vulgar word over the en
tire history of them knowing each other and, furthermore, that she never heard
her calling students by vulgar names. In fact, Griffin testified that Naughri
ght was exceedingly professional at all times with the students (see pages 30-
33).

While not personal friends, Griffin and Naughright worked together on the drug
commission for over three years. She testified that she was an "excellent boa
rd member," and that she "had a good reputation in the Knoxville community and
on the Metropolitan Drug Commission."

But it gets worse. Much worse.
Soon after the alleged sexual assault, records show that Manning told the scho
ol, "I have never approved of Jamie's vulgar language. It has always been my o
pinion, along with the majority of the team, that Jamie wants to be one of the
guys."
To his father, he concocted far worse lies that were torn apart, one by one, w
hen he and others were forced to testify under oath. He told his father, Archi
e, "she's kind of trashy," and "had the most vulgar mouth of any girl he'd eve
r seen" and "was unattractive but had big breasts" and had "been out with a bu
nch of black guys" and "had a toilet mouth."
Under oath, the ghostwriter, John Underwood revealed that Archie Manning sugge
sted to him that Naughright was going into the dorms and having sex with large
numbers of black student athletes. After saying that she was up in the dorms
with black students, Archie, states:
"And, she'd, she'd, been up in the dorm before, I mean hey, you know, they cou
ld have, you know, could have pulled off stuff on her too. Ah, she, toilet mou
th, ah Peyton told me he never did like her, but he always did, cause what I'd
told him to do, ah, I instructed him to be nice to the tr- … don't ever look
down on a trainer or an equipment person you know."
According to the records, attorneys for Naughright drilled person after person
, staff member after staff member, asking them to identify an instance where t
hey heard Naughright use vulgar language. Not a single person could do so. One
after another, those who claimed she was promiscuous admitted under oath that
they didn't have any evidence to support such claims. Instead, everyone, to t
he person, claimed they had just heard such charges from somebody who heard fr
om somebody that it might be true (see pages 37-40). No one with firsthand kno
wledge testified to her ever being vulgar or having sexual relationships with
student athletes.
In fact, the opposite was true.
Lawrence Johnson, an Olympic silver medalist and gold medalist at the World In
door Games, testified at great length to the character, compassion, profession
alism, and overall amazing nature of Dr. Jamie Naughright (see pages 42-43). H
e testified that he believed he had attended at least 80 different local, nati
onal, and international events with her and that he had not heard her a single
vulgar word in the 10 years he had known and worked with her. He testified th
at she was "professional and proper" in her conduct, appearance, and demeanor.
He went on testify how she came to check on him at his bedside after surgerie
s and traveled with him to meets all over the world to ensure his peak perform
ance.

Another student athlete, Antonio Brewer, who has known Naughright since 1995,
testified that he personally knew her to have high moral character and that he
r reputation for being a moral person was actually well-known at the universit
y. He testified that he had never heard her use vulgar language of any kind (s
ee page 43) and that he was deeply offended by the racist suggestion made by A
rchie Manning that she was sleeping around with black athletes.
Until this very day, have you ever seen a single interview with Dr. Jamie Naug
hright trashing Peyton Manning? Me neither. I never knew that any of this happ
ened until last week. My understanding is that she has not worked in college a
thletics since being let go from Florida Southern.
The defamation suit was settled in 2003 but terms were not disclosed. Naughrig
ht settled her suit against the University of Tennessee for a reported $300,00
0.
The book, which trashes the character of Dr. Jamie Naughright, continues to be
sold to this very day, while Peyton Manning continues to benefit from his rep
utation not only as a superstar quarterback, but also an individual of high mo
ral character. In fact, he has reaped tens of millions of dollars in endorseme
nt deals based on a fraudulent mystique he's cultivated as a good guy, an upst
anding citizen, the ideal professional athlete.
This document alone puts the lie to all this. He hasn't come close to apologiz
ing for sexually assaulting Dr. Jamie Naughright. Quite the contrary, he besmi
rched her stellar reputation and character. The price he should have paid for
what he did her — at very least — she has ended paying over and over again,
both at the University of Tennessee and, later, at Southern Florida.


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