Larry Brown Sports

Peyton Manning pulled an outstanding prank on teammate Eric Decker this week while they were out to dinner with several other football players. Peyton and brother Eli Manning have been working out with various receivers at the 2013 Manning Passing Academy. The group went to dinner, and Manning gave papers to all the receivers. But here’s the thing: the paper handed to Eric Decker was an invoice that made the wide receiver think he owed money for participating in the workouts:

Nice little practical joke Peyton drew up…making me think I have to pay for workouts in Duke t/week @mortreport twitter.com/EricDecker87/s…

— Eric Decker (@EricDecker87) April 11, 2013

That invoice looks pretty darn authentic, so it’s no surprise that it fooled Decker.

I didn’t add t/$ amount up at dinner..especially when I thought it was a volunteer workout ha! The tax and facility fee threw me off ha!!

— Eric Decker (@EricDecker87) April 11, 2013

The best part about the prank is that papers were given to all the wide receivers at the dinner to make Decker’s seem legit. The others received notes telling them to play along with the prank on Decker:

Read The Rest of the Story…

Eric Decker and Jessie James form one of the more attractive celebrity couples, and they’re also pretty funny.

The two acted in a humorous video that seems to have been produced by James’ sister, Sydney Rae. In the video, which is called “My Odd Obsession,” the Denver Broncos wide receiver acts as an Ace Hardware store employee named Simon Birch, who is obsessed with sniffing his wife’s panties. James, who is a talented country singer, portrays elementary school principal Michelle Wineburger, who has an obsession with eating poop.

Sydney Rae uploaded the video to her YouTube account Wednesday and seems to be pretty proud of it, because she sent a few tweets teasing it the past few days:

Editing a new video get excited!

— SydneyRae (@SydneyRaeJames) March 19, 2013

are yall ready for the funniest video ever!?!

— SydneyRae (@SydneyRaeJames) March 20, 2013

The video certainly was as funny as it was bizarre, which is no surprise given some of the amusing tweets Decker and James have sent. The outtakes at the end were pretty awesome.

H/T Peter Burns

No one is more relieved that the Broncos erased a 24-point deficit and came back to beat the Chargers on Monday night than Eric Decker. With Denver trailing 10-0 in the second quarter, Decker caught a pass from Peyton Manning and had as clear a path to the end zone as you will ever see. However, his feet got in the way and he tumbled to the ground.

Or maybe it wasn’t his feet. Decker made a pretty funny joke about it after the game last night, but his girlfriend Jessie James took it to an entirely new level. When a Twitter user wondered if having too much sex with James had resulted in weak legs for Decker, she came up with the following clever response:

What do u expect? He has 3 of them RT @dtru184: @ericdecker87 is having to much sex with @thejessicajames #weaklegs

— Jessie Rose James (@TheJessicaJames) October 16, 2012

Is this guy living the life or what? Being an NFL receiver must be great as is, let alone having an incredibly hot girlfriend and enjoying the privilege of catching passes from a Hall of Fame quarterback. And if all that wasn’t enough, said hot girlfriend is now bragging about his man parts to 150,000-plus Twitter followers. Guy is owning life right now.

Read The Rest of the Story…

Eric Decker had one of the most embarrassing plays of the game on “Monday Night Football,” and easily one of the most embarrassing plays of the season. The Broncos receiver caught a deep second-down pass from Peyton Manning during the second quarter against the Chargers and had nobody near him. The Chargers clearly bit on the play action fake and had just given up an 85-yard touchdown pass … until Decker lost his balance and fell (video here).

Decker caught the ball around midfield and began to stumble about five yards later, even though nobody was around him. He fell, got up, and then was tackled after gaining 55 yards. Nothing could explain why he fell, so Decker joked about it after the game:

If yall didn’t see, they had trip wire out there tonight. I reported it to the NFL so an investigation is pending. #humblingmoment

— Eric Decker (@EricDecker87) October 16, 2012

Three plays after Decker’s fall, the Chargers intercepted Manning and returned it for a touchdown to go up 17-0. That was a 10-point swing in the game, but it only was part of the story in Denver’s eventual comeback.

You better believe Decker wouldn’t have been joking had his team lost, but since they won, he could have a little fun with it afterward. Sniper!

Read The Rest of the Story…

With Tim Tebow comes a media circus. We have all learned that over the past couple of seasons. The only things that are guaranteed in life now that we have hit the 21st century are death, taxes, and Tebowmania. While he is considered to be a fantastic teammate and one of the hardest workers in the league, Tebow can also be a distraction. Between dating rumors and talk about religion, the focus isn’t always exclusively on football when Tebow is involved. One of his former teammates, Eric Decker, reminded us of that on Friday when asked if it was a relief that the media circus is out of town.

“Tebowmania — yeah, obviously he’s earned the right to have conversations about him,” Decker said during an interview with 102.3 The Ticket in Denver. “I guess at the same time, to be honest with you it is nice just to kind of focus back on football, and we talk football and there’s not — there’s still a lot of excitement here with the football. I mean, he is a great teammate. I respect him greatly. But again, like you were saying, a lot of the focus right now is on football, is really talking about how we’re gonna form this team to win some ball games next year.”

Decker has had nothing but great things to say about Tebow in the past, and this isn’t exactly a change from that. It does, however, give us some serious perspective as to just how crazy things can be with Tebow around. As you may remember, the Broncos brought in another high-profile quarterback just before shipping Tebow out.

Peyton Manning is a future Hall of Famer who played with one team his entire career prior to joining the Broncos. For Decker to say the team is relieved to no longer have to deal with the media circus despite the fact that one of the biggest NFL names of all time has come to Denver says a lot. Tebowmania truly is a one-of-a-kind beast.

Photo credit: Ron Chenoy-US PRESSWIRE

Everyone needs a little time off for rest and relaxation, right?  Even NFL players go out and have some fun during the week, despite having to be ready to play a tremendously physical game come the weekend.  However, when you’re a proven winner like Tim Tebow there’s no time for going out.  What Tebow lacks in physical makeup he compensates for with hard work.  How do we know that?  For one, every coach or player he’s ever played with says it.  Also, teammate Eric Decker told AM 570 in Los Angeles they can’t even get him to go out and have a good time because he’s too busy working all the time.  Here is the Decker interview, with the Tebow talk coming at around the 6:30 mark.

Say what you will about Tebow and his religious talk and any of that, but that’s the mark of a true winner.  People hate Tebow because there’s nothing to hate.  That’s the way it works.  As a player, he’s exactly the type of guy you want to have leading your team.

Is this all part of a new marketing plan for the NFL?  After two straight weeks with love stories lingering on the side while there are football games to be played, I’m starting to wonder.  Last weekend we had David Nelson and his Cowboys cheerleader girlfriend united on the sidelines in Dallas when Nelson gave her his touchdown ball.  Maybe the fact that even Jerry Jones thought it was romantic inspired the Broncos to invite Eric Decker’s girlfriend, country singer Jessie James, to perform during halftime of Thursday night’s Jets-Broncos game.

As CBSSports.com shared with us, Decker seems straight up giddy that his lady friend will be out on the field singing while he is in the locker room with his teammates breaking down the 64 run plays Denver ran in the first half.

Read The Rest of the Story…