"In my business, if you want to light up the e-mail machine, or bring an instant text response onslaught doing local sports talk radio, here's the way you do it:

Peyton Manning will soon be gone in Indy, kicked to the football curb to make way for Andrew Luck. So...

The Cowboys should trade Romo for defensive- or offensive-line building blocks, and then sign Peyton.

No, you don't do that. Tony Romo is not the problem. Peyton is also dealing with age and a bad injury.

But if I did write that, I'm predicting 200 e-mails, running close to 50-50 pro-con in response. Even using the Peyton-Romo comment strictly as a hypothetical there will probably still be 200 e-mails running close to 50-50.

Man, I love this job. Over four decades into it, and not even once has there ever been a morning wakeup where there's the dread of going to work.

For this, let's give thanks."