Peyton Manning Pays Tribute To Musical Icon Dolly Parton | TMZ Sports

All right, moving on to the biggest news in the entertainment world. An icon has passed away, Dolly Parton, at the age of 80 years old. Dolly Parton, a country music legend. I mean, a philanthropist, but also somebody that was really involved in the sports world. We were just talking about this. Oh, no, I knocked Tawanda's phone over. We were talking about this, Tawanda, back in 2023, it was. She came out, full Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. As did I, because I was a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader in 2023 for Halloween, because this season that we saw Dolly Parton on the Dallas Cowboys cheerleading show, believe it or not, that is the body of a 77-year-old woman. She was 77 years old when she did this performance. She performed at the Cowboys Commander's game, Thanksgiving game, and they highlighted this performance on the DCC, the Netflix show, Dallas Cowboys Sweethearts. You could just tell how many people were just truly fans of Dolly. All of the cheerleaders were so excited. Jerry Jones was so excited, to the point where they had to get her her own custom-made Dallas Cowboys cheerleading uniform, the most iconic cheerleading uniform in football, maybe professional sports. It's amazing, because she's not from Dallas or anything, but she was so big and iconic, she could put on anything. She could have showed up at any fan base, and it would have been amazing. I remember this performance. She was looking great. She really was. That's incredible. And she sounded great, too. 77. I was just like, girl, I just hope I look that good when I'm 77. Y'all don't even look that good now. I think I'm still a little bit, but Dolly just, ugh, love her. I could not agree more. It's not just the Dallas Cowboys and the Commanders game. She also was at Tennessee. She sang Rocky Top. Peyton Manning, as a matter, as you see her walking arm-in-arm there with the legendary Peyton Manning, of course, Tennessee legend. Here's what Peyton said, responding to the horrible, sad news today. There was only one Dolly, and I feel lucky to have known her. We'll miss you, Dolly. Tennessee won't be the same without her. I think people feel Tennessee won't be the same. America won't be the same. The world won't be the same without Dolly Parton. The career spans so many decades, and the millions and millions of dollars, billions of streams of her music, endless hits. It's incredible. You want to talk to her in such a divided world when everyone is polarizing, and no one can agree on everything, anything. The one thing we can all agree on is that she was just the best and an icon. You know you're dealing with an icon when they die and the president, given it's Donald Trump, tweets out that they're going to lower the flags for her. They don't do that for many people, but when you hear that, you know you're dealing with someone who was truly loved and just truly an icon. I think that's a great point, Juwan. He came out quick with the announcement. I think they're going to do it for like a week. If anyone deserves that, it's Dolly Parton. Rest in peace to an absolute icon.