Colts fans question owner Jim Irsay over Peyton Manning's place on list of all-time NFL players

Everybody has their "Mount Rushmore" or "Top 10" athletes, musicians, etc. But when Jim Irsay discusses NFL players, he raises eyebrows.

When the Indianapolis Colts owner offered his best NFL players, he listed the late Jim Brown first. But one player he left off his "Top 5" prompted double-takes: Peyton Manning.

Instead, Irsay included John Elway, a quarterback the Colts drafted in 1983. Elway refused to play for the Colts, and they traded him to the Denver Broncos, where he won two Super Bowls. Irsay's Top 5: Brown, Tom Brady, Elway, and pass-rushing menaces Deacon Jones and Reggie White.

Irsay followed up by tweeting that Manning was certainly in his Top 10, but that Elway's accomplishments with lesser surrounding talent for much of his career gives him a boost.

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Colts fans gave Irsay's choices some interesting responses.

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