Right after winning his initial Super Bowl, Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning hosted NBC’s Saturday Night Live.

Following winning his second, Giants quarterback Eli Manning will do the honors.

Eli will host the show on Could five, according to ESPNNewYork.com.

He’ll be the third active NFL quarterback to host, joining Peyton and Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. The timing is a bit surprising, given that Eli will most likely miss a week of the team’s offseason program as he prepares for the show. On-field perform isn’t expected to begin, nevertheless, till the middle of Might.

During the 2011 season, Tim Tebow was getting pursued to host the show, but he didn’t want to do anything to make himself something other than a single of the guys. (Now that he has turn into the initial backup quarterback in NFL history of have his personal press conference, maybe his position on blending in has changed.)

Peyton’s stint as host was widely praised, with his United Way Digital Brief 1 of the funnier moments of the past decade.

It’s as well poor they never ever got Brett Favre to do the show. He and Andy Samberg could have recreated the funniest moment of the past decade.

Over the weekend, we shared an item from Rob Demovsky of the Green Bay Press-Gazette, which seemed to recommend based on current background that the 2012 schedule will be released on Tuesday, April 17.

Perhaps a lot more significantly, the TVGuide.com listings for Tuesday, April 17, continue to show a “SportsCenter Unique: NFL Schedule Release” at 7:00 p.m. ET on ESPN.

At ESPN.com, the listings for April 17 at 7:00 p.m. show merely a “SportsCenter Particular” for the primary network, with no description as to the purpose for the particular edition of the mother ship’s flagship show.

So, for now, it certain looks like the schedule is coming subsequent Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. ET.

Blair Kiel, a quarterback who played for the Buccaneers, Colts and Packers, died on Sunday at the age of 50.

WISH-Television in Indianapolis reports that Kiel died Easter morning, apparently of a heart attack, at the house of a family friend.

Right after a college profession at Notre Dame, Kiel was selected by Tampa Bay in the 11th round of the 1980 NFL draft. He would later play as both a quarterback and a punter for the Colts just before finishing his NFL career with the Packers. Kiel played in 25 NFL games, starting 3, and completed 108 of 193 passes for 1,296 yards with eight touchdowns and seven interceptions. He averaged 37.1 yards on 17 punts for the Colts.

Kiel is the uncle of present Notre Dame quarterback Gunner Kiel.

Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh is an influential man at his alma mater.

Just before Nebraska hired Tim Miles as its basketball coach, Athletic Director Tom Osborne heard from Suh, who knows Miles via a mutual friend and wanted him to get the job. Osborne stated Suh’s word carries a lot of weight.

“When Ndamukong calls, I often listen. And if I don’t listen,” Osborne told the Omaha Globe-Herald, “he’ll break my neck.”

Any person who knows how universities function knows that the threat of breaking a person’s neck isn’t as much of an incentive to act as the promise of a multimillion-dollar donation. And that indicates Suh, who has donated $ two.6 million to Nebraska, gets his opinions heard.

Even without getting to threaten to break anybody’s neck.

Ronde Barber is coming back.

Barber, the Buccaneers cornerback who had been mulling retirement, has decided that he will return for his 16th season in Tampa Bay, Jay Glazer of FOX Sports reports.

Even though Barber will turn 37 in a couple weeks and isn’t the same player he as soon as was, the Bucs’ coaching staff and front workplace produced clear that they wanted his veteran presence back as portion of a young secondary that might get younger if the Bucs – as several expect them to – use the fifth overall choose in the NFL draft on LSU cornerback Morris Claiborne.

Barber started all 16 games last season, the 12th consecutive season he’s accomplished so, and he has the longest active streak of consecutive starts in the NFL, beginning 199 games in a row.

Adam Caplan reports that the Jets have scheduled a go to with free agent wide receiver Donnie Avery.

The 1st receiver chosen in the 2008 draft, Avery flashed promise in the course of his initial two NFL seasons with 100 receptions for 1,263 yards and eight touchdowns. Avery tore his correct ACL in August of 2010, nonetheless, and struggled to get on the field throughout last year.

He did catch 3 balls for 45 yards and a touchdown in Week Seventeen with the Titans.

This will be Avery’s 1st known check out of the 2012 totally free agency period. The Jets are seeking to add to a receiver corps that consists of Chaz Schilens, Jeremy Kerley, and Patrick Turner behind top rated wideout Santonio Holmes.

Avery can add speed to the unit. His forty occasions at the Houston Cougars’ 2008 Pro Day were four.34 and 4.35.

Florio reported Tuesday that totally free agent tackle Eric Winston drew immediate interest from the Chiefs, Dolphins, and Rams following his surprising release by the Texans.

Winston visited the Miami Dolphins on Wednesday.

Per FOX Sports’ Alex Marvez, Winston will follow that up with a Thursday go to to Kansas City.

Marvez also reports that the Ravens and Rams are showing “strong interest” in Winston. Winston has been a proper tackle all through his profession. Of the teams named here, Kansas City, Miami, and St. Louis want the most help at that position.

Linebacker Brady Poppinga and defensive coordinator Gregg Williams are both presently beneath contract to the Rams, though it’s not clear regardless of whether either 1 of them will be with the team for significantly longer. That’s just as well, simply because Poppinga doesn’t have significantly respect for Williams.

Poppinga, who becomes a totally free agent next week, says that Williams, who may possibly be suspended for running a bounty plan with the Saints, did one thing “degrading,” “animalistic” and “repulsive” in orchestrating bounties in New Orleans.

“I just can’t sit there and be silent,” Poppinga told Alex Marvez of FOXSports.com. “I appear at this as an opportunity to share with the public that we, as football players, are not barbaric and out to try and destroy almost everything in our path. Football is my profession and I take it seriously. It’s an art form. It’s technical, strategic and takes a lot of intelligence to play. When this came out, it started to confirm the notion that football guys are idiots. That’s not who we are. Ninety-five percent of the guys are quite intelligent. It’s just guys who enjoy to go out and play a physical game.”

Poppinga mentioned he doesn’t like the message that the bounty scandal sends.

“It’s a massive dilemma in society not understanding how to compete with the right perspective,” Poppinga said.

As for regardless of whether Poppinga has any future on the Rams’ defense, where he started 12 games final season, Poppinga stated he’s not worried about that.

“If they’re not going to want me on the team due to the fact of that, that’s fine,” Poppinga mentioned.