Is performance or pay behind the Colts’ decision to let him go?
Peyton Manning has been with the Colts since he was selected by the team as the first over-all pick in the 1998 draft. In the 1999 season — his rookie season — Peyton Manning set five, yes five, NFL records including most touchdown passes in a rookie season.
(via Wikipedia)
Wherever Manning goes next, he will always be linked with the Colts — as Brett Favre will always be remembered as a Packer, regardless of his time spent with the Vikings and the Jets.
Playing for the Colts, Peyton won a record four MVP awards, started in more than 200 consecutive games, had 35 fourth-quarter comebacks, 46 game-winning drives, and threw more than 50,000 passing yards. Not to mention being named MVP in Super Bowl XLI, when he lead the Colts to victory in their first appearance in the championship game in 36 years.
(via Jeff Darlington for NFL.com)
Manning was off the field for the entire 2011-2012 season as a result of neck injuries and operations — the Colts’ record for the season was the lowest since Manning joined the team, at 2-14. After signing him to a five-year, $90 million contract in July, the team had to cut him this week, or pay him a $28 million bonus.
Given that the Colts have the number one draft pick this year and will most likely take the opportunity to select Andrew Luck from Stanford, the combined salaries of these two players would be too much for the team to support. Signing Luck is estimated to run the team about $23 million over four years — with more than $15 million of that payable in 2012.
(via WSJ’s The Daily Fix)
Sports Illustrated’s Chris Burke looks at some of the possibilities for Manning — including
The web is full of resources and experts to help you save money, find bargains, and make the most of your finances. Here are a few of the best:
A group of bloggers whose mission is to offer shopping tips, financial advice, career and money-making ideas and “general adulthood know-how your parents forgot to tell you.”
Wife, mother and homeowner Leah Ingram shares her lessons, tips and bargain finds on her blog — from free Leap Day samples to coupons for Fisher-Price products to DIY cleaning tools.
Money saving tips and practical financial tools — strategies and real information to help lower your bills, reduce your debt, and spend smarter— billeater.com’s goal is to help you lower your energy bills, monthly mortgage payments, car insurance, credit card payments, and more.
Not a pure bargains and finance site, LifeHacker covers how-to’s, information, answers, reviews and, yes, tips on everything from the latest and best smartphone apps to how to buy the right toothbrush to how to use sugar to clean your greasy hands. And don’t miss their “App Deals” — where you’ll find paid apps on sale or free, updated daily.
Strategies and life lessons on keeping a home and feeding a family on a budget — from “why I don’t make homemade tortillas” to “play the drugstore game” to “15 ways to repurpose items you already have for reorganizing” — this blog’s goal is to help you live better on less.
Part of a national campaign sponsored by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and The Advertising Council to encourage and help Americans aged 25 to 34 to take control of their personal finances — the site offers games, quizzes, resources, planning tools and more to help you develop and maintain the saving habit. Check out the 5% Challenge — based on your household income, your debt and your annual savings goal (which you provide), the site produces a map of your lifetime savings results.
About living “the smartest, most creative life possible with whatever we’ve got on hand — about doing fabulously more with what we have—even when it’s a little bit less than what we want — it's trading off, not down, turning the ordinary into something extraordinary, the art of living the good life for less, no matter what we’ve got in our bank account.”
For starters check out 24 Savvy’s list of the 50 Best Money-Saving Blogs and Websites.
What you should know before taking the plunge
This Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which showcases the newest, most innovative and dreamiest technology, featured well over two dozen tablets — from budget models, to the lightest, to highest definition, to waterproof — this year. How’s a person to choose?
Tablets come in three basic flavors — iOS, Android and Windows (not including RIM’s BlackBerry OS).
Image from Geek.com
When it comes to device selection, Android wins hands down — there are literally hundreds of devices operating on the Android OS, while only 11 currently run on iOS and about 20 run on Windows mobile.
When it comes to sheer number of apps available, iOS is the winner, with over half a million apps — the Android marketplace is hover just under 400,000, while there about 40,000 apps for Windows Mobile. Chances are pretty good, however, that you won’t want half a million apps. Or even 400 thousand. It’s likely that the apps that are most important to you are available on more than one mobile OS. Check out the app stores and the app reviews — see if what you want is available on the OS of your choice.
Freedom of choice — unlike the Windows and iOS platform, the Android platform places no restrictions on the available apps. You can sideload (download) any app onto your device, unlike iOS and Windows devices, which require that you jailbreak them in order to install “unapproved” apps.
For more comparisons among the three operating systems, see A Mobile Showdown on Geek.com.
Choosing a tablet is like the Goldilocks and the 7 (or 8 or 9) Bears — tablets come in sizes from 10” (like the iPad, which comes in at 9.7”) to 9” to 8” to 7” to 5” (where the line between phone and tablet becomes so blurry, Samsung has coined the term “phablet”).
Samsung owns the size variety offered by a single manufacturer — Samsung’s Galaxy line comes in five different sizes:
· Galaxy Tab 10.1 — 10”
· Galaxy Tab 8.9 — 9”
· Galaxy Tab 7.7 — 7.7”
· Galaxy Tab 7 and 7 Plus — 7”
· Galaxy Note — 5”
Samsung Galaxy Note– first “phablet”
The introduction of the 7” to 8” tablet — ushered in by Amazon’s 7” Kindle Fire last fall — is the biggest change in the tablet game since the iPad. Lighter, smaller, easier to hold, more portable — the mid-size tablet has been a huge hit, despite Apple’s original and total rejection of the viability of the size as too big to compete with smart phones and too small to compete with the iPad (for Steve Jobs’ 2010 rant against the seven inch tablet, check out this blog post on the Wall Street Journal).
Current rumors in the industry are that Apple is investigating testing a new tablet that will be about eight inches (via The Wall Street Journal).
Leading entries in the 10” tablet category include:
In the mid-size tablet category, you’ve got:
Next week: evaluating tablet specs to find the right one for you.
Recent studies may move those french fries off the “don’t” list
It turns out that for some, a low salt diet may be less than ideal.
An article in the New York Times reported on a study that found “that low-salt diets increase the risk of death from heart attacks and strokes and do not prevent high blood pressure.” Another study (reported in Science Daily) observed “a significantly increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease (CVD) associated with lower sodium diets.”
You’ve heard both theories.
On the one hand, there’s the theory that it doesn’t matter what you eat, it matters how much you eat — if you burn more calories than you take in, you’ll lose weight.
On the other hand is the theory that doesn’t matter how much you eat, it matters what you eat — if you limit or eliminate carbohydrates, you won’t have a weight problem.
While it’s true that if you eat 1000 calories worth of Twinkies and burn 1200 calories daily, you’ll probably lose weight — you might also keel over from a heart attack.
And while it’s also true that many carbs (as in processed, refined and simple) have high caloric value and limited nutritional value, it is also true that many of the nutrients necessary to our health (as in vitamins, minerals, anti-oxidants) can be found in carbohydrates pulled straight from the ground, or bush, or tree.
In a classic instance of having your cake and eating it too – recent research shows that following a low carb diet for two days a week is more effective for losing weight than following a low calorie diet every day. (via Salt Lake Tribune)
As low calorie, low carbohydrate, low fat and other restrictive diet guidelines are researched further, the results seem to point to the inescapable conclusion that there are few absolute truths when it comes to health and preventive measures. For instance — aiming for a low sodium diet may be more harmful than helpful for people not already suffering from high blood-pressure.
Bottom line? Follow dietary guidelines using common sense — and take them with a grain of salt.
Who won the Super Bowl of commercials this year?
Eli Manning’s pass to Mario Manningham wasn’t the only memorable moment of last Sunday’s Super Bowl.
On possibly the most anticipated day for television commercials every year — here are the top five as voted by viewers in the USA Today Facebook Super Bowl Ad Meter.
The number one ad was Dorito’s “Sling Baby,” followed by, in order
Bud Light’s “Weego”
Kia’s “A Dream Car. For Real Life”
Chrysler’s “It’s Halftime in America”
M&Ms’ “Ms. Brown/Just My Shell”
Surprisingly, two of the most anticipated commercials didn’t make the top five:
Volkswagen’s follow-up to last year’s Ad of the Year, “The Force” — “Dog Strikes Back” — landed at number 7 (although it received the highest rating on Fox Sports)
And Honda’s homage to Ferris Bueller (“Bueller, Bueller?”) dropped in at #16
So which one was your favorite???
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