Inside 'ManningCast': How Peyton and Eli Manning are changing the way we watch sports
DENVER — The nondescript one-story warehouse sits just off a busy street south of downtown. Motorists pass by the thousands and seemingly no one gives the place a second glance. If only they knew what happens on the other side of those corrugated metal walls.
Not only is the 10,000-square-foot building home to a private collection of 18 lacquered muscle cars, but it's also where another No. 18 — legendary quarterback Peyton Manning — takes the wheel of "ManningCast," turning "Monday Night Football" games into weekly gabfest with his younger brother, Eli.
This week, the Mannings gave the Los Angeles Times an exclusive look into the inner workings of the ESPN2 show, which attracts about 1.5 million viewers per episode.
The brothers are across the country from each other, Peyton in the warehouse and Eli in a studio ESPN built in his New Jersey home. Peyton considered doing the same, but he and his wife, Ashley, were doing some remodeling and he didn't love the idea of all that equipment in his house year-round. So he took a friend up on his offer to transform the garage.
People with access to the miniature museum refer to it as the Batcave, and, out of necessity, Manning arrives like a stealthy superhero. Instead of parking in
