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Manning Contract Details
Filed to ESPN: Denver and Petyon Manning reached agreement on a five-year, $96 million contract. Manning introduced as QB at 3 pm ET.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) March 20, 2012
This is why the Niners were not going to sign Manning; he apparently cares about the money more than we expected. In fact, I'm surprised he considered the 49ers at all, given that they were certain to have offered much less than this.

