Peyton Manning Reveals the Secret Behind his Famous ‘Omaha’ Bark-Out to Legendary Golfer Phil Mickelson

Former Indianapolis quarterback turned Manningcast co-host Peyton Manning has been famous for his folklore of shouting out ‘Omaha’ at the line of scrimmage during his days with the Indianapolis Colts. His ‘Omaha’ bark used to be very famous and infamous (for the opponents) as it used to confuse the opponents of his next play.

However, during the Manningcast on ‘Monday Night Football’ Peyton made a sudden revelation on his most known call out during his games, when golfer Phil Mickelson sat in as a guest with Peyton and Eli Manning during the second quarter of the game between the Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers.

Peyton Manning shares an interesting anecdote

“It told my teammates we’d kind of gone to Plan B,” Peyton explained. “It was just a few seconds on the clock. Everybody kind of has that word, kind of a trigger word that means, ‘hey, get ready, the ball’s about to be snapped.'”

It was surely an unconventional yet interesting way to play snaps. Although later, Peyton further revealed that they also had snaps based on the golfers’ names, even in the name of Phil himself.

“I don’t know if you know this, but in Indianapolis, before I said ‘Omaha,’ we actually had your name into our offense,” Peyton further added. “We had a snap count called ‘Tiger’ [Tiger Woods] and a snap count called ‘Phil’ [Phil Mickelson].”

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Peyton made snaps in the name of Phil Mickelson, too

The golfer did not see that coming for sure, but it did certainly amused Mickelson. So when Peyton asked Phil, “It’s really irrelevant which one was on one and which one was on two. You were in the Colts offense. How does that make you feel?”

Lefty replied, “Like a Hall of Fame player.” It was quite an interesting anecdote shared by the older Manning, although his famous/infamous ‘Omaha’ play does seem to outplay every other.

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