Peyton Manning!

3 neck surgeries in a year... If they are really getting rid of Tebow they are putting a hell of a lot of their eggs in the Peyton basket.

He will be good for the five years he has MAX with the Broncos.

Eggs in a basket, he says...

Now what is the meaning of this idiom? You have your eggs, I assume they are not just separate eggs, but eggs in a carton container of some kind. That is the correct and useful form to carry them safely any way, and if they drop, they drop, some may break, some won't.

What's this basket then? Is it a wooden basket? Like a weaved one, oldschool? Or is it just a rectangular basket, for example, with a flat bottom. To either of these, I wouldn't place my eggs separately, as they would swirl around and possibly destroyed just by being in the basket! But if I had a container for the eggs, and maybe some other stuff, celery, basil, I would carry these things all in a basket, and not be afraid of breaking any of the eggs. Why would I separate the eggs? Should I put some in my pockets, then what if I slipped? I would fall and probably all eggs would be destroyed, no matter where they are, basket, pocket, in my hands...

What a stupid idiom.

I do see the idioticness of it when putting it in those terms, but perhaps it refers back to when a farmer would be carrying eggs from his hen house to the farm house (or other area for preparing them for sale). That's lots of eggs, which are also part of his livelihood. Would you put them all in one basket in order to take just one trip, but at risk of losing your profits? or make several trips with a basket less full in case it falls? Makes sense if you think of it that way rather than in a modern day "buying 1 dozen eggs at the supermarket" in separate baskets.

he's pretty neat. now the broncos will be super neat too.

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