Broncos’ Sean Payton Gets Eye Surgery After Calling Wrong Play Last Season

Timothy Rapp@@TRappaRTFeatured Columnist IVJune 12, 2024

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Sean Payton underwent cataracts surgery on his left eye last week, and will undergo the same surgery on his right eye on Wednesday, according to Mike Klis of 9News.

The reason? His eye sight got bad enough that it caused him to read his call sheet wrong at one point last season.

“I want to get my eyes fixed, so I call the right play and I don’t mess up and call the wrong play on a play that happened one time this year,” Payton told reporters back on Jan 9. “That was embarrassing.”

Ask just about any sports fan, and they’ll tell you that every official and umpire on the planet should get the same surgery. But we digress.

Payton, 60, will be looking to have a bounce-back season after the Denver Broncos went just 8-9 in his first season with the team. He’ll have a new quarterback in rookie Bo Nix, who replaces the released Russell Wilson and his NFL-record dead cap hit.

Call it a rosy new outlook for the Broncos. And a clearer outlook in general for Payton.