Redskins actually cutting prices

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Peyton Manning has renegotiated his contract to help the Colts save some cap space. From what I hear, the club is still going to pay him an arm this year, but he's deferring the leg until 2010.

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Just thought of a sponsorship possibility for the NFL:

"This 15-minute wait between draft picks is brought to you by Jet Blue."

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Bad sign: The "We Love Our Coach" T-shirts at the Redskins Store have been marked down from $19.99 to $10.99.

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Sam Huff rang me up after I used an old quote of his in Thursday's column. The quote came from a Time magazine story on Huff in the '50s -- a cover story, in fact. But as Sam tells it, it almost wasn't a cover story.

"I nearly got bumped," he says. "A few days before the issue came out [in November 1959], a guy at Time called and said, 'If the monkey dies, you're off the cover.'

"The United States was sending a monkey up in one of those early space launches. Fortunately, the monkey came back alive."