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Rain ManningThe Colts' brilliant, nerdy, socially stunted quarterback.

By Tommy CraggsPosted Thursday, Feb. 1, 2007, at 5:01 PM ET

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Oops! That one's about Bill Gates. Sorry.

It's time, I think, for football to embrace its poor Screech, Peyton Manning. Let the dorks into the fraternity. After all, we nerds are one of the NFL's sustaining life forces, with our fantasy football and our Football Outsiders and our Madden NFL 07. Like the man says: Let's go, insurance adjusters, let's go!

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Tommy Craggs is a writer in New York.
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