INDIANAPOLIS -- The man who built Peyton Manning’s statue has met Manning just once. Ryan Feeney requested to see Manning in person, to get the larger-than-life monument just right. Feeney ...

The statue, sculpted by artist Ryan Feeney, was almost entirely covered in plastic — except for the heel of Manning's left foot, which poked through. Related: Peyton Manning statue ...

In a ceremony at the team’s Indiana Farm Bureau Football Center on Friday, owner Jim Irsay announced the Colts will construct a statue in Manning’s honor outside Lucas Oil Stadium.