Manning denies HGH use in 2011

"The 100 Yards" Staff Report

Peyton Manning

Recent reports about Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning have been released through a film that aired on Sunday by Al Jareera that said that Manning was given HGH (Human Growth Hormone) for problems with Manning's neck, specifically neck pains.

"Between being angry, furious, disgusted is how I really feel, sickened," Manning said during his first televised comments since Al Jazeera's findings were released Saturday night. "I'm not sure I understand how someone can make something up about somebody. ... And yet somehow it's published in a story," Manning said. I don't understand that. Maybe you can explain that to me. So it's completely fabricated, complete trash, garbage -- there's more adjectives I'd like to be able to use. It really makes me sick. It makes me sick that it brings (my wife) Ashley into it, her medical history, her medical privacy being violated. That makes me sick. I don't understand that. I'm in the middle of my throwing workout. I enjoy 

"Absolutely not," Manning said when asked if he ever used HGH or any other performance-enhancing drugs. "What hurts me the most about this is whoever this guy is -- this slapstick -- trying to insinuate that in 2011 when I more or less had a broken neck. Four neck surgeries. Broken neck, I'm sure there's a difference in there but I had a bad neck. I busted my butt to get healthy through a lot of hard work, I saw a lot of doctors. I went to the Guyer clinic. He had a hyperbaric chamber that trainers and doctors thought would be good for me. That ended up being part of my best medicine along with a lot of hard work. It really stings me that this guy is insinuating that I cut corners, that I broke NFL rules in order to get healthy."