Peyton Manning is about to play in his third Super Bowl, but not even his brother thought he would ever get the chance after multiple neck surgeries. Manning first had surgery in May 2011 to repair a damaged nerve that was causing weakness in his throwing arm. After playing catch with his brother, New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning was "convinced" Peyton's career was over. "I saw him after that first surgery, this neck surgery, and I was pretty much convinced that he was done," Eli Manning said Wednesday on NFL Network. "There was no way he could come back and play football. That first time he went and we were just throwing it in the backyard of our house. We're throwing 15 yards away, and it was a lob. He couldn't throw 15 yards on a line. It had no pop." Read more http://espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/201...ing-thought-peyton-manning-was-done-surgeries
