Peyton Manning Reflects on Co-Hosting CMA Awards, Morgan Wallen, and His Growing Role in Country Music

 **Peyton Monitoring Ponders Co-Facilitating CMA Grants, Morgan Wallen, and His Developing Job in Nation Music**

By Marcus K. Dowling

As he equips to co-have the 2024 CMA Grants close by Luke Bryan and Lainey Wilson, NFL Lobby of Famer Peyton Monitoring is cutting out an extraordinary spot in down home music. Exchanging his Super Bowl MVP persona for a job suggestive of a *Hee Haw* have, Monitoring is embracing his new association with the class.

Wearing a plaid gingham shirt, pants, and rancher boots behind the stage at Bridgestone Field during CMA practices on Tuesday, Monitoring took a gander quiet in the midst of arrangements for down home music's greatest evening. Notwithstanding, he's speedy to minimize his job.

"I'm similar to an eavesdropper," Monitoring kidded to *The Tennessean*. "In reality, I'm more similar to the person on a NFL field telling the official the television break is finished, and now is the ideal time to get the game moving."

The 2024 CMA Grants air live from Nashville on November 20, 8-11 p.m. EST on ABC, with following day spilling on Hulu.

### Monitoring Goes "All In" With Morgan Wallen

Monitoring's developing association with blue grass music incorporates an essential second sooner this year when he joined Morgan Wallen in front of an audience during one of Wallen's sold-out shows at the College of Tennessee's Neyland Arena. Wearing his famous No. 16 pullover, shoulder braces, and cap — recovered from a memorabilia show — Monitoring made his entry close by Wallen, lead trainer Josh Heupel, and current Tennessee quarterback Nico Iamaleava.

"Leaving a similar passage I completed quite a while back caused me to choose to bet everything," Monitoring said. "I even taped my lower legs for it. The stuff fit somewhat more tight than previously, yet it was worth the effort to be essential for a particularly unique evening."

Monitoring considered how his exhibition piled facing other VIP appearances during Wallen's visit. "Eli [Manning] firm searched in New York, and Tom Brady's tight shirt in Vegas wasn't helping him," he joked. "I'm not quite so cool as Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce in Kansas City, however I did the best that I can with it."

### In the background of *It's All Country*

Monitoring likewise worked together with co-have Luke Bryan on *It's All Country*, a six-episode Hulu narrative series investigating the tales and motivations behind a portion of the class' most notable tunes. Delivered by Monitoring's Omaha Creations and facilitated by Bryan, the series plunges into open discussions with stars like Luke Brushes and Woman A.

"Luke has resided it, very much as I did with *Peyton's Places* in the NFL," Monitoring said. "He carries an insider's viewpoint to these meetings, offering something novel for both easygoing audience members and in-your-face fans."

### "Down home Music's Future Is Brilliant"

Presently in his third successive year as a CMA Grants co-have, Monitoring is excited to invite 2023 Performer of the Year Lainey Wilson to the facilitating group. "It's enjoyable to see Lainey go from getting a high-five for winning Performer of the Year to imparting the stage to us," he said.

Monitoring is especially amped up for respecting George Waterway, who will get the Willie Nelson Lifetime Accomplishment Grant. Exhibitions by co-have Wilson, Jamey Johnson, Miranda Lambert, and Parker McCollum are set to observe Waterway's incredible profession.

"However much I love facilitating, the genuine stars are the craftsmen having their groundbreaking minutes," Monitoring said, adding that he's anxious to watch exhibitions by Luke Brushes, Eric Church, and Ashley McBryde's accolade for Kris Kristofferson.

Considering down home music's getting through bid, Monitoring compared its development to the NFL. "Very much like in football, the up and coming age of specialists gaining from prepared veterans guarantees the class' future. Down home music is looking good into the indefinite future."