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Peyton Manning Calls HGH Allegations ‘Complete Junk'

With Super Bowl 50 week upon us, Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning wants to make it clear that the allegations made against him in an Al Jazeera documentary about sports doping are "complete junk."

Accusations regarding the superstar NFL athlete first surfaced in "The Dark Side," a documentary that investigates "the secretive world of doping in sports and raises questions about whether medical professionals are linked to some of the greatest sports heroes." Al Jazeera reported that Manning's wife received human growth hormone (HGH) from an Indianopolis clinic in 2011.

During Super Bowl Media Night in San Jose, Calif., on Monday, according to NFL.com, Manning said, "I welcome this NFL investigation, because I know the rules of the NFL and I respect the rules, they're important to me. And so what this report alleges that I did is simply not true. It's fabricated. It's junk. It's garbage. I could give you a long list of other words for it. I can guarantee this investigation, what it will find is an absolute big, fat nothing. That's how I feel about it."

When asked if he would let the league have his records from the Guyer Institute, where he and his wife were both patients, Manning told reporters in attendance, "I haven’t got any of them. They can have whatever they want to have. Like I said, it’ll all take place after the season. Whatever they’ve got to do, I welcome it 100 percent."

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