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Manning Sets NFL Career Passing TD Record
October 19, 2014 | Football
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#VFL #Peyton Williams Manning #509 pic.twitter.com/95gWz2c97p
-- Tennessee Football (@Vol_Football) October 20, 2014
Tennessee legend Peyton Manning is the most prolific touchdown passer in NFL history. Manning connected with Demaryius Thomas on an 8-yard touchdown in the second quarter Sunday night on an 8-yard toss for his 509th career touchdown pass, passing Brett Favre to set the all-time record.
Manning reached the mark in his 246th game (56 games faster than Favre).
After getting tripped up second down for a 7-yard loss, Manning found the tall wide receiver for a nice grab along the right sideline.
Emmanuel Sanders caught a 3-yard score on Denver's first drive, and Wes Welker got deep to notch a 39-yard score on the third play of Denver's second drive. Like so many milestone touchdowns before it, Manning's throw to Welker to tie Favre was preceded by a pump fake. Niners cornerback Tramaine Brock bit on the play, letting Welker get deep.
Well deserved Peyton. Congratulations on breaking my record. #Onto600 http://t.co/MEeffAlmeP
-- Brett Favre (@Favre4Official) October 20, 2014
That moment you become the NFL TOUCHDOWN KING! pic.twitter.com/pHzF6iBKEI
-- NFL on ESPN (@ESPNNFL) October 20, 2014
BREAKING: Peyton Manning sets NFL record with 509th career TD pass, moving past Brett Favre for most all-time.
-- SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) October 20, 2014Well deserved Peyton. Congratulations on breaking my record. #Onto600 http://t.co/MEeffAlmeP
-- Brett Favre (@Favre4Official) October 20, 2014
#509 enough said!!! #VFL
-- Butch Jones (@UTCoachJones) October 20, 2014
#509
Officially, the greatest of all-time!
Our #VFL #PeytonManning
All-Time NFL TD Passing King! pic.twitter.com/X8xW8h5brx
-- Tennessee Football (@Vol_Football) October 20, 2014
#Peyton509 http://t.co/NkezxWEpoV pic.twitter.com/0gK7rhYNh3
-- Denver Broncos (@Broncos) October 20, 2014
History is made.
Peyton Manning finds Demaryius Thomas for an NFL record 509th career touchdown pass.
#Peyton509 pic.twitter.com/NyD7uE7q7R
-- NFL (@nfl) October 20, 2014
#Salute to #VFL Peyton Manning, simply the greatest of all time. pic.twitter.com/qe3DeuLcMK
-- Tennessee Basketball (@Vol_Hoops) October 20, 2014
Congrats to #PeytonManning for #509. Class act! #VolNation
-- Jamal Lewis (@Jamal31Lewis) October 20, 2014
Congrats Peyton!!! 509 for the greatest of all time!!! #VFL
-- Antone Davis (@Antone_Davis) October 20, 2014
Cant believe I got to run routes w Peyton throwing, multiple of times! Still blows my mind! He defines what a pro should b like 🏈🏈 GOAT #509
-- tyler drummer (@tdrum12) October 20, 2014
G.O.A.T. Peyton Manning
-- Todd Kelly Jr. (TK) (@ToddKellyJr6) October 20, 2014
Congrats @UTKnoxville classmate & #VFL @Broncos @Vol_Football Peyton Manning setting yet another @nfl record. You are just warming up sir!
-- Michelle Marciniak (@mmarciniak3) October 20, 2014
The Quarterback #PeytonManning #509 pic.twitter.com/AKhyNt592b
— Vol Photos (@Vol_Photos) October 20, 2014
Story from ESPN.com
DENVER -- Just three years removed from spinal fusion surgery, in what has been a remarkable re-start to his NFL career as the Denver Broncos quarterback, Peyton Manning passed Brett Favre for the league's record for career touchdown passes Sunday night with his 509th career scoring pass in front of a national primetime audience.
Manning stands alone at the top of the list after an 8-yard touchdown pass to Demaryius Thomas with 3:09 remaining in the first half. The pass gave the Broncos a 21-3 lead in the game.
The Broncos played a brief tribute, that included a video message from Favre, John Elway and several of Manning's teammates. The Broncos receivers, as well as Julius Thomas, played keepaway briefly to keep the record football from Manning before finally handing the ball to the future Hall of Famer.
Manning had thrown a 3-yard touchdown pass to Emmanuel Sanders with 8:29 second left in the opening quarter for his 507th career scoring pass, along with a 39-yard scoring pass to Wes Welker with 2:57 left in the first quarter to tie the record. It was Sanders' first touchdown catch of the season and his first scoring pass from Manning.
The game marked Manning's 246th regular-season start while Favre threw 508 touchdown passes in 302 regular-season starts for the Green Bay Packers, New York Jets and Minnesota Vikings. Manning threw 399 touchdown passes in the regular season during his tenure with the Indianapolis Colts.
Manning had reached the 500 mark in the Broncos' 41-20 victory over the Arizona Cardinals in Week 5, a game Manning finished with a career-best 479 yards passing. At 38 years old, after four neck surgeries, Manning has now thrown 110 touchdown passes for the Broncos since signing with the team in 2012.
It also means since choosing the Broncos over a list of suitors that included the Cardinals, Tennessee Titans and 49ers, Manning has set the league's single-season touchdown record (55 in 2013), guided the Broncos to back-to-back 13-win seasons and a Super Bowl appearance.
With 509 touchdown passes, Manning is currently 135 scoring passes ahead of the next active quarterback -- the New Orleans Saints' Drew Brees, who has 374 career scoring passes after throwing two in the Saints' loss Sunday to the Detroit Lions. New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has 372 career scoring passes and the next active quarterback is Eli Manning, who has 243 career touchdown passes after Sunday's game against the Dallas Cowboys.
Behind Manning and Favre, Hall of Famer Dan Marino is No. 3 all-time with 420 touchdown passes. And though current Broncos executive vice president of football operations/general manager John Elway hasn't thrown a pass since the 1998 season, he is still seventh on the all-time list with 300.
Manning has tried to deflect the record's approach for much of the past month
"I think we've concentrated on the important things. We've had two good wins coming off a bye week -- an early bye week," Manning said earlier this week. "I think you're curious how you're going to respond, especially if you have a little bit of rhythm going and you're playing decent football and then you have an early bye week. Do you come out sluggish? Do you lose anything that you had? I think we've responded well coming off that bye week and have had two good wins playing excellent teams. So that's what I've concentrated on, trying to do whatever it takes to win and I don't feel like it's been a distraction because we've handled it and focused on what's important."
Manning has also thanked "everybody, the coaches I've teammates I've played with ... any kind of record doesn't happen without them."
The pass to Demaryius Thomas gave Manning three touchdowns in the game and made it the 89th career game with at least three touchdowns passes.
Of all of the players who have reeled in touchdown passes from Manning since the start of his rookie season in 1998, former Colts wide receiver Marvin Harrison leads the way with 112 touchdown passes from Manning, with Reggie Wayne having caught 67 scoring passes and Dallas Clark with 44.
Since joining the Broncos Demaryius Thomas leads the way with 29 touchdown passes, including the record breaker.
"Throwing touchdowns is a part of playing football," Manning said in recent weeks. "But I guess for me throwing touchdowns has helped teams I've been a part of win a lot of football games. I don't think I've thrown a lot of touchdowns that didn't mean something. Any time you have a big lead, all the years I played in Indianapolis, the coaches would always take us out and if we were getting bad they'd take us out, so any ones that I've usually thrown usually resulted in our team trying to win the game or win the game so I think about it that way."
Adding the three Sunday to break Favre's record, in his 246 career regular-season games Manning has averaged 2.07 scoring passes per game over the course of his career, 2.89 scoring passes per game in his two-plus seasons with the Broncos.
Manning has now thrown 109 touchdown passes in 38 career starts for the Broncos. And the top four quarterbacks not named Manning in terms of touchdown passes thrown in a Broncos uniform -- Elway (300), Craig Morton (74), Jake Plummer (71) and Brian Griese (71) -- threw 516 combined touchdown passes with the Broncos.
