The BEST episodes of Peyton's Places season 1
Every episode of Peyton's Places season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Peyton's Places season 1!
Through conversations with former players, coaches and key figures, Peyton Manning gets to the heart of football history and its cultural impact.
#1 - Two Presidents & A Girl Named Heidi
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 11/17/2019
Every Sunday, millions tune in to watch the NFL from the comfort of their own home or the bar down the street. Peyton visits with Anthony Gonzalez, Joe Namath and Ben Stein to learn it took President John F. Kennedy's signature, a movie about an 8-year-old orphan who is sent to the Swiss Alps to live with her grandfather, and President Richard Nixon's political muscle to bring NFL games to your living room.
Watch Now:Amazon#2 - The Evolution of the Wide Receiver
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/12/2019
Raymond Berry, Antonio Brown and Jerry Rice explain the evolution of the wide receiver.
Watch Now:Amazon#3 - A Lot To Be Thankful For
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 11/24/2019
In the Manning household, football is a priority, which means Thanksgivings were spent on the gridiron. Even though the family was often apart, Archie, Cooper, Eli and Peyton are thankful for their bond over football. When the four Manning men recently met up, they took a trip down memory lane and dove into the archive of Archie's home movies.
Watch Now:Amazon#4 - The Origins of Fantasy Football
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/24/2019
Matthew Berry joins Peyton Manning to breakdown the origins of fantasy football.
Watch Now:Amazon#5 - History of the QB
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/29/2019
Peyton visits with Joe Montana and walks through the history of the league's most important position.
Watch Now:Amazon#6 - Da Bears
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/31/2019
Actor George Wendt and writer/comedian Robert Smigel, who play Bill Swerki’s super-fan characters in the popular Saturday Night Live skit, turn Peyton into a born-again Chicagoan as a fan of Da Bears.
Watch Now:Amazon#7 - The Draft
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/29/2019
Peyton and Mel Kiper Jr. review Kiper's library of draft guides, exploring how the ESPN NFL draft guru helped turn a "boring" business meeting into great television.
Watch Now:Amazon#8 - Unbreakable Records
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/21/2019
Hall of Famers Brett Favre, Eric Dickerson and Emmitt Smith have achieved milestones no player in the league is likely to match or surpass. While discussing whether their respective NFL records will stand the test of time, Peyton visits with Smith at his memorabilia storage unit, dons Dickerson’s goggles, and shares cheese curds with Favre.
Watch Now:Amazon#9 - Ray Lewis
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/17/2019
Ray Lewis shares his film strategy with Peyton Manning, saying he was watching Manning's every move, and more.
Watch Now:Amazon#10 - The Lombardi Trophy
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/7/2019
Every NFL team covets the Lombardi Trophy, named after Vince Lombardi, one of the legendary figures in the history of the league. Peyton and his brother, Eli Manning, the Giants two-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback, go on a journey to discover the history behind the trophy and attempt to recreate the original prototype.
#11 - Peyton’s Favorite Players
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 12/29/2019
Peyton takes a trip down memory lane to seek out his three favorite players: His father, Archie, and brother Eli Manning, and his childhood hero, Dan Marino.
Watch Now:Amazon#12 - The Greatest Catch
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/29/2019
Peyton meets Cris Carter in midtown Manhattan to recreate a famous PR stunt the New York Football Giants pulled off in the 1920s -- by throwing a football off a skyscraper.
Watch Now:Amazon#13 - Fantastic Finishes
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 11/10/2019
In the NFL, it's not how you start, but how you finish. Peyton relives some of the most dramatic endings in NFL history with Roger Staubach, Eli Manning, Joe Montana and Dave Robinson.
Watch Now:Amazon#14 - Brett Favre
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 10/13/2019
Peyton and Favre drive around Green Bay in a convertible, share football stories over cheese curds in a suite at Lambeau Field and look back at film of past NFL games, including the Colts-Packers matchups when the legendary NFL quarterbacks played against one another.
Watch Now:Amazon#15 - Elvis Presley
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 1/12/2020
Peyton is all shook up by Elvis Presley's fascination with football and finds himself channeling his inner Elvis when he visits Graceland to run the King's touch football playbook.
Watch Now:Amazon#16 - Two-Way Players
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 10/20/2019
In the modern-day NFL, no player is on the field for all sixty minutes, but years ago it was common to play both offense and defense. To experience being a two-way player, Peyton meets up with Deion Sanders and learns to play both sides of the ball.
Watch Now:Amazon#17 - In Lombardi's Footsteps
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 12/8/2019
Vince Lombardi is one of the most iconic names in NFL history. Peyton explores the places that define Lombardi's legacy, including a stop at Yankee Stadium with Bill Cowher and a trip to Lombardi's old home, via Bart Starr's Super Bowl MVP car, with Brett Favre.
Watch Now:Amazon#18 - The Hupmobile
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/29/2019
Peyton joins comedian Jay Leno for a ride in a Hupmobile to commemorate how the classic car helped in the creation of the NFL. Then he gets the inside scoop on Joe Namath's legendary guarantee ahead of Super Bowl III, with an assist from Broadway Joe himself.
#19 - Blame General Custer for the Patriots Dynasty
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 10/6/2019
In the NFL, kickers are often the difference between victory and defeat. To understand more about the only players that touch the ball with their feet, Peyton learns to kick from Mark Moseley, makes a barefoot FG with help from Rich Karlis and meets up with Adam Vinatieri, the most respected kicker in the NFL.
#20 - Gamewreckers
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/14/2019
Peyton meets up with Texans All-Pro defensive end J. Watt, one of the game’s most fearsome defenders, gets slugged by a baseball bat, and gets in the ring with George Foreman to explain how dealing with pass rushers is similar to being in a heavyweight brawl.
#21 - The Birth of the Ball
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 9/28/2019
Over the NFL’s 100 seasons, the football has evolved from the original watermelon ball to the model used today. Peyton meets up with former teammate Brandon Stokely to trace the history of the football, and later ventures inside the Wilson football factory in Ada, Ohio, to make the perfect pigskin.
Watch Now:Amazon#22 - The Evolution of Coaching
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 12/15/2019
Peyton discovers how a missed boat in 1915 led to something new in football – a coach who calls the plays and dictates strategy. As part of the episode, he visits with Hall of Famers Mike Ditka, Tony Dungy, Dan Fouts and Joe Montana to discuss the greatest coaches in NFL history.
Watch Now:Amazon#23 - Tom Brady
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 1/5/2020
Peyton meets up with his greatest rival, Tom Brady, to hit golf balls off Jim Nantz's home and reminisce about their epic battles.
Watch Now:Amazon#24 - The Art of the Quarterback
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 1/19/2020
Along his journey, Peyton has met up with some of the NFL's most iconic quarterbacks. Peyton discusses the intricacies of the position with some of the greatest to ever play the game, including Tom Brady, Joe Montana, Brett Favre, Steve Young, Joe Namath and Dan Marino.
Watch Now:Amazon#25 - Are You Ready For Some Football?
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 12/1/2019
Peyton meets up with Al Michaels to narrate halftime highlights Howard Cosell-style, and learns how Monday Night Football brought the NFL to primetime. Peyton's journey also includes a stop in Baltimore to meet Brian Billick who starred in the first season of HBO's Hard Knocks, which kicked off reality sports TV.
Watch Now:Amazon