One of many best quarterbacks of all time formally joined the Corridor of Fame on Sunday night time, and he stuffed his induction speech with touching phrases about household and the legacy of the sport. However that is not all. Addressing the Canton crowd on his particular night time, Peyton Manning could not resist poking enjoyable at a fellow all-timer on his manner into the Corridor. With former on-field rival Tom Brady seated within the viewers, Manning joked that Brady will not be reminiscing on his personal Corridor of Fame profession till he is eligible “within the 12 months 2035.”

“Subsequent 12 months, acceptance speeches will in all probability shrink to 4 minutes,” Manning joked after lamenting this 12 months’s shortened window for induction speeches. “And talking of rivals, my good pal Tom Brady is right here tonight, and by the point he’s inducted, in his first 12 months of eligibility within the 12 months 2035, he’ll solely have time to put up his acceptance speech on his Instagram account.”

Manning took different alternatives to poke enjoyable on the speech time restrict, joking that former Ravens star Ray Lewis had simply wrapped up his personal long-winded speech from the 2018 class. However his comment to Brady received among the heartiest laughs after the Corridor of Fame crowd initially booed point out of the Buccaneers quarterback’s title. Brady and Manning, after all, have been well-known rivals when the latter was nonetheless energetic within the NFL; the 2 went face to face 17 totally different occasions beginning in 2001. However Brady, who turned 44 this month, continues to be suiting up with no sign of ending.

NFL gamers should not eligible to be inducted into the Corridor of Fame till after they have been retired no less than 5 years, so Manning is forecasting Brady hanging up the cleats in 2030, when the longtime Patriots QB will likely be 53.