Peyton Manning on Tom Brady's leaked emails: 'No harm, no foul'

Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning holds no ill will against Tom Brady for the so-called jabs his longtime rival made against him in a private email to a friend.

In the emails, which were obtained as part of the NFLPA's lawsuit to appeal the New England Patriots quarterback's four-game suspension, Brady wrote that "I've got another seven or eight years. He has two. That's the final chapter. Game on."

Manning told reporters Wednesday that the situation was overblown and that he received an "unnecessary" apology text from Brady after the emails were leaked.

"The fact that his emails got revealed, that didn’t make a lot of sense to me," Manning said, per Nicki Jhabvala of the Denver Post. "No harm, no foul.

"I didn't think a lot of it. Somebody said I was roasted. I've been roasted before. That is not a roast. I haven't been on a Comedy Central roast, but there have been a couple of those private dinners and banquets where I didn't know it would turn into a roast of me, but it did. I can promise you, that email was amateur night compared to some of the things people really said about me."

Manning and Brady square off Nov. 29 in what could be the last meeting of their careers.