The moment he retired....

Manning sent goons to the guys house...to intimidate him. At that point, the reporter realized it wasn't worth it, financially, to go up against someone willing to hire ex-Bush aide Ari Fleischer as a crisis management expert. Manning went into full-on political shake-down mode. He didn't really have an axe to grind....so he recanted.

Peyton, knew, due having it his wife's name, protected them from deeper inquiry. They cant just dig into private medical records. It was always a contingency plan from the start....

So now..the NFL is accepting the report...with all the references to Manning blacked out. Money buys you out of anything in America....

If you follow the trail of events...it looks pretty obvious:

1. Colts believe Manning is beyond repair...after consulting with experts. Irsay said it was the hardest decision he's ever had to make...
2. Manning signs with Denver. A team that leads the NFL with documented cheating offenses. Their new GM was caught juking the salary cap in his final playing years. The plan was always to get Peyton one final trophy at all costs.
3. Manning, against the odds...comes back better than before. Throws for a record 55 TDs after "re-teaching" himself how of hold a football. This goes against all the medical experts opinion on his rehabilitation chances. He has magically proven science wrong...
4. NFL starts testing for HGH in October 2014...Manning's decline starts in the final month of the 2014 season.
5. Elway forces him to take a pay-cut...and they try to rest him as much as possible during the season.
6. Peyton has HGH shipped to house. There are only 3 rare conditions that allow for the treatment to be used...and what do know...his wife just happens have it...although nobody can verify this due to medical privacy laws.
7. Manning goes from being the best passer in history to the worst rated passer in the NFL in less than a year.
8. Manning hires goons to intimidate reporter at his house. Reporter recants. NFL goes cold on the story.
9. Manning retires
10. NFL reopens the report but omits Manning.

Of course not but they can come to agreements. They could easily hold a meeting and do something after a vote if they felt his actions were not in their interest. He will continue to act and use the power he has until they tell him otherwise.

You don't really think he does what he does without the majority of the owners support. All the Brady crap would have never happened if the owners didn't support it. But let's face it, they don't like Bill and what he did in the past that they believed screwed them over and Roger covered it up for his boy Kraft. They saw their chance to stick to them so they gave him a behind closed doors green light to be an asshole and he was.

Dead on point. Very likely.