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"Rob Lowe, the ultimate NFL insider?\r\nThe Parks and Recreation star, 47, set the web ablaze on Wednesday with a series of tweets suggesting that football superstar Peyton Manning (of the Indianapolis Colts) was heading out to pasture.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;Hearing my fave, #18 Peyton Manning will not return to #NFL,&amp;quot; Lowe wrote. &amp;quot;Wow. #Colts&amp;#x2026;My people are saying Manning will retire today. What do you hear? Colts fans, let&amp;apos;s hope my info is wrong. Don&amp;apos;t like being wrong, but this time... I&amp;apos;m hoping.&amp;quot;\r\nThe former 80s teen idol explained himself -- well, not really -- on a Thursday appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m a huge, huge Peyton Manning fan . . . And a huge, huge Colts fan.  I tweet every week about sports. About, who they should fire. Who they should hire. I do, I&amp;apos;m like a regular guy who has his opinions and stuff,&amp;quot; Lowe said.\r\n&amp;quot;So I was tweeting that I heard this might be in the offing and then you learn the power of Twitter.  That&amp;apos;s a powerful, powerful medium.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nWhen Ellen DeGeneres asked how Lowe obtained this information, he demurred. &amp;quot;I hope against hope, it&amp;apos;s not true. . . .Ellen, I could tell you but then I&amp;apos;d have to kill you.&amp;quot;\r\nManning, 35, holds the record for most NFL MVP awards (four), led the Colts to Super Bowl victory in 2007.  He sat out the 2011-2012 NFL season due to a serious neck injury."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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