Still, Manning acknowledged how difficult it must be for a player, on perhaps the biggest play of his career, no less, to suddenly do the exact opposite of what he has always done.
Weise: "A million more or less – suddenly it wasn't a problem any more".
(Answer: two, so far as I know: Jody and his compadre Hamilton Jordon, who died sixteen months ago, less suddenly but at an even less advanced age).
He directed his scientific criticism against the idea of the "compression of morbidity" - the belief that with enough medical advances, disabilities will go away and people will live in good health until, more or less suddenly, they die.
And much less suddenly, it wasn't that far off, until finally, he was bathing in it.
Watching a game on anything less suddenly seems as pointless as preferring black-and-white TV over color, mono over stereo, the Atari 2600 over the Xbox 360.
A wake-up light slowly raises the level of light in the room to help you adjust less suddenly.
The real deals, uncondensed, are no less weighty, but suddenly they're looking less scary, more approachable, more essential even.
In the light of these revelations about personal wealth, brought to you by the Office for National Statistics, no less, voting intentions suddenly seem pretty easy to understand.
The impact would, I am certain, have been no less had I suddenly found myself face to face with Shakespeare or Beethoven.
