Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos' wide receivers practiced playing a game of keep-away with the record-breaking ball on the sidelines. 

"He came to me ... and said if anybody scores the 509, that's what we should do," Demaryius Thomas said. "He said 'Keep the ball away,' like hopscotch or whatever. I was like, 'Cool.'"

Manning broke Brett Favre's all-time touchdown record.

"We were definitely rehearsing it," Emmanuel Sanders said. "But I didn't think we were going to do it. I ended up running up to Demaryius, who had caught the touchdown, of course, and I was like 'Let's do it ... let's just do it.' And we did it.''

"I can't believe they actually did it,'' Manning said. "We sort of joked about it during the week ... I've lost my vertical leap, it's not there anymore, my side-to-side agility is not quite as quick, so it hurt me.

"But that was pretty funny, I enjoyed that and I'll definitely remember a lot of things about [Sunday night], but I'll definitely remember that part of it and the fact they had the guts to go ahead and go through with it.''