DENVER -- It began with Marvin Harrison. Where it ends, no one yet knows.
But with his 7-yard scoring strike to tight end Julius Thomas Sunday, Peyton Manning became the second player in NFL history with 500 touchdown passes, and hit the milestone in 243 games, 49 fewer than Brett Favre needed.
With his first NFL offensive coordinator (Tom Moore) and position coach (Bruce Arians) looking on from the Arizona sideline, Manning threw a perfect strike to Thomas, who broke outside Cardinals safety Tony Jefferson near the goal line. That created all the separation Manning needed to hit the milestone and put the Broncos in front 10:17 into the game.
The milestone toss pushed his season total to nine. He added three more touchdown passes to push his season total to 12, which puts him on pace for 48 this year.
Manning is already responsible for two of the top three single-season touchdown tallies in NFL history, including his league-record 55 last year. ut the possibility of more milestones is for the future. Favre's record of 508 touchdown passes is in sight and could be reached in the next few weeks. Favre's passing yardage record of 71,838 could be approached late next season. The same is true of Favre's completion standard of 6,300.
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Manning's 500th career passing touchdown
The quarterback's accomplishments have earned him the right to wax nostalgic about the past. That's what he did last month, as he sifted through the folders of his hard-drive mind to recall some targets who caught a single touchdown pass. A guy named Trevor Insley, he caught one, Of courseMitch Unrein would be in that category. There was a tight end named Mike Roberg in there. [Also] Tom Santi and Lamont Warren," recited Manning.
It's one thing to remember the one-off targets; another he cited was Gijon Robinson. It's another to recall the details.
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