Peyton Manning adjusts to massive Colts changes, zeroes in on his future

Well, there's one thing we DO know about Peyton Manning — he's watched Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 adaptation of "The Outsiders," S.E. Hinton's seminal book that this writer read about 100 times growing up. Rob Lowe's recent pseudo-announcement of Manning's retirement brought the quarterback to Lowe's role as the middle brother in that movie. "I never thought `Sodapop Curtis' would announce my retirement,'' Manning recently told Bob Kravitz of the Indianapolis Star in an exclusive interview.' "I always thought I would be the one to announce it. I'm a huge fan of the movie, but that caught me way off guard. I can't explain it. I know [Lowe] is a friend of Jim's [Colts owner Jim Irsay], and Jim sounded surprised.'' Indeed. For all of Irsay's spontaneity on Twitter, Lowe's speculation that Manning was done after a neck injury robbed him of his 2011 season threw everyone for a loop — most notabl...