Welcome to Indiana, where every football field has a Peyton

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INDIANAPOLIS -- The football, delivered with http://www.steelersnflofficialprostore.com/AUTHENTIC+BRANDON+BOYKIN... startling swiftness by Peyton Williams, soars over a thicket of outstretched limbs and lands 40 yards away in the hands of Peyton Trexler. There is a cheer as the flashes of a dozen smartphones capture the historic moment.

Williams is a lean freshman quarterback at McCutcheon High School in Lafayette, Indiana. Trexler, a precocious sophomore receiver, caught 18 touchdowns at Southwood High School in Wabash, Indiana. They were part of an unprecedented gathering this past Sunday at the Sports Zone Indy.

Call them the Peyton generation.

During his 13 active seasons here with the Womens Jeff Heuerman Jersey Indianapolis Colts, Manning produced 399 touchdown passes. According to statistics, there are probably even more boys named after him. In 1998, when the Colts made Manning the No. 1 overall draft choice, the most popular names for boys in Indiana were Jacob, Austin and Michael. Peyton wasn't even a top-100 name, a good distance behind even Kaleb, Jalen and Gabriel.
But as the Colts improved, so, too, did your chances of being named Peyton. In the team's sweet spot, from 2004 to 2010, Peyton ranked consistently in the top 60s, 70s and 80s, peaking -- not surprisingly -- with Indianapolis' victory in Super Bowl XLI at the end of the 2006 season. Girls named Payton also became more prevalent. The year Manning left for the Broncos? Peyton had fallen back into obscurity.

With the lure of national television airtime via an ESPN NFL Countdown audience -- not to mention 16 free pizzas -- we corralled this week no fewer than 23 football-playing Peytons, nearly all of them named after the man himself. That's not even half the football-playing Peyton haul. There are 57 Peytons on Indiana high school football rosters this season.

They came in a dazzling array of shapes and http://www.seahawksofficialnflonline.com/WOMENS_YOUTH_WILL_BLACKMON... sizes and hues. One of them, Peyton Stoddard, was a 10-year-old with a shocking-pink Mohawk. Another, Peyton Sturgill, was a 1,000-yard rusher as a senior for Peru High School. All bound by No. 18.
James Pruett loved Peyton Manning. One day his wife, Tracie, pregnant with her third child, called him at work.