Peyton Manning Had Stem Cell Surgery That's Currently Illegal in the United States?

(NewsCore) - Peyton Manning traveled to Europe and underwent a stem-cell treatment not yet available in America before his Sept. 8 neck surgery in an aggressive effort to get back on the field, FOX Sports' Jay Glazer reported Sunday on "FOX NFL Sunday." "They actually went and took some fat cells, probably out of his belly, and they put it in a culture," Glazer said. "And they try to almost turn back the hands of time with these cells and they inject them in the neck, hoping that these cells regenerate the area, regenerate the nerves."

Are we all collectively ok with this, or has it just not really set in yet because ESPN for some reason hasn't run this story yet? I mean, far be it for me to call him a cheater, but this doesn't sound any different than an athlete doping with HGH to help speed-up a comeback from injury, does it?

"Try to almost turn back the hands of time", "inject", "regenerate the area." Not for nothing but that just blatantly sounds like Peyton Manning is using performance enhancing procedures to help along his recovery. If a guy on the DL can't juice to help "regenerate muscles," and "turn back the hands of time," then I'm not sure why this should be ok. Coupled with the fact that he had to leave the country to do this (similar to traveling down to Tijuana for roids), and what you have here is a full-fledged case of Peyton Manning attempting a new way form of performance enhancement, except no one seems to care.  Fox has had this story for over 24 hours. It's no where on ESPN (actually they now have a little "Fox's Jay Glazer reports" blurb on Manning's player card). 

This makes no sense. Reporters saw a bottle of legal supplements in Mark McGwire's locker over a decade ago and a shit storm erupted (granted he was involved in other stuff, but that little bottle, a supplement that you could have walked into GNC and bought, started it all), and yet there isn't one hint of the media questioning what Peyton got done and how fair it is or isn't. If the guy is never playing again and he's doing this to lead a normal life that's one thing, if he's doing it to rejuvenate his career, well that's something we need to question.