James Kent

Peyton Manning says 8 years of pointless wet-ball drills finally paid off in the Super Bowl, and says he and Jeff Saturday practiced taking snaps in the rain every Thursday before Super Bowl XLI and it never mattered until that night when Chicago had 3 fumbled snaps and they had 0 “I’ll tell you a good Super Bowl story about Jeff Saturday real quick. Every Thursday during our entire career in Indianapolis, Jeff and I played together forever, we always did wet-ball drills. We’re taking snaps before practice and the equipment guy is spraying water on the football, creating the environment.” “Jeff would get so mad because he’d say, ‘Peyton, we’re playing in the RCA Dome this week. There’s no chance of rain.’ And I’m like, ‘You never know. You’ve got to prepare anyway.’ We did that for eight years. Every Thursday, no matter what.” “We get to the Super Bowl, and it’s raining cats and dogs. We have zero fumbled snaps. The Bears have three fumbled snaps. And I said, ‘That’s why we’ve been doing the wet-ball snap drill all these years.’ So those little things pay off in the Super Bowl. They pay off.”