Why hasn't Peyton Manning sued yet over slanderous HGH allegations?

He would subject himself to discovery.

you're assuming the allegations are false

Polly pugh wrote:

If someone threatened to ruin my hard earned reputation I spent years creating over false allegations, I would sure as heck have a surfeit of lawyers doing everything possible to clear my name.

What are false about the allegations. I've never once hear Manning say that his wife didn't get HGH. NOt once.

I've heard Manning say the report was 'garbage' but have yet to hear him factually dispute a single thing in the report. Now, the implicatoin in the report was that Manning used his wife's HGH.

Does anybody know if anyone asked Manning about the HGH stuff at Super Bowl media day?? Or did all of the media worshippers just bow down and kiss his knee.

It looks like they did ask him some stuff.

http://www.sbnation.com/2016/2/2/10894148/peyton-manning-hgh-public-relations-super-bowl

In two separate interviews he used the term "a big fat nothing."

"I know exactly what they're going to find: a big fat nothing,"

Maybe he has been busy doing something else. Like playing football. The statute of limitations has not run yet.

Also, the guy making the allegations has retracted them, and, as Mr. Obvious says, a defamation case is a 2-edged sword because you have to disclose all of your dirty laundry and testify under oath.

Finally, it hardly ruins his hard earned reputation for there to be doping talk. I think most people assume that most NFL players are doping to some extent or another. The NFL has a very weak antidoping program. There also isn't the same direct correlation between doping in football and bogus records as there is in track and baseball, where steroid or EPO induced records ruin a major element of the sport.

I think going after a lawsuit would be a big distraction while preparing for the Super Bowl.

And is there money to be gotten by him?

It's probably not worth it.

"The guy making the allegations retracted them." Well of course he (Charlie Sly) retracted them, or else he would lose all of his money and have to live fighting court cases against him. It's funny that he said he lied but wants you to believe him this particular time. What he said about Manning is absolutely true and anyone who doesn't believe Peyton did HGH is a naive idiot and media slave.

Thedirty wrote:

"The guy making the allegations retracted them." Well of course he (Charlie Sly) retracted them, or else he would lose all of his money and have to live fighting court cases against him. It's funny that he said he lied but wants you to believe him this particular time. What he said about Manning is absolutely true and anyone who doesn't believe Peyton did HGH is a naive idiot and media slave.

My point was that from a PR standpoint, Manning may feel like the retraction gets him as much as he could get from filing a defamation case. He doesn't need money, he probably doesn't want the risk and distraction of being involved in litigation, and since everyone assumes NFL players are doping and most fans don't care care, the allegations don't hurt him much anyway.