Hall of Famer Peyton Manning is a five-time NFL MVP, two-time Super Bowl champion, seven-time first-team All-Pro, and is one of the most decorated quarterbacks to ever play the game. But, his younger brother Eli -- whom Peyton deems the “silent assassin” -- will always have one over on him around the Thanksgiving table or Christmas tree.
Eli Manning will announce his retirement during a Friday press conference. The former Giants quarterback conquered the frozen tundra in one of his most impressive victories, in a place where Peyton never tasted victory.
“That Green Bay game when (Tom) Coughlin’s face is freezing off and you’ve got (Brett) Favre, the Packers, that mystique, and I never won in Lambeau Field," Peyton Manning said during an extensive sitdown with the Denver Broncos’ official website. “I thought it was an intimidating place to play. You could feel Lombardi. You could feel Ray Nitschke. To go in there and win up there, in an NFC Championship Game, in those conditions, that game might have been more impressive than the Super Bowl.”
The Giants’ dramatic 23-20 overtime victory over the packers propelled Manning’s team to a berth in Super Bowl XLII and ultimately the first of two Lombardi Trophies and Super Bowl MVPs for Eli.
Eli Manning’s victories against the Packers and San Francisco 49ers in his two NFC Championship Game appearances help cement his legacy as one of the NFL’s greatest clutch-performers.
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It remains to be seen if 39 of the 48 members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame selection committee will believe in five years that Manning belongs enshrined alongside his brother in Canton, Ohio as one of the five modern candidates inducted on the first ballot -- or ever.
When surveyed by NJ Advance Media last summer, 10 of 30 current committee members said they will not vote Manning into the Hall of Fame.
However, Peyton believes strongly that Eli deserves and one day will own a Gold Jacket.
“I certainly have my strong feelings and opinions,” Manning said. “When you’re the Super Bowl MVP twice, against the greatest dynasty of all-time, Tom Brady and Bill Belichick, and you join a list that includes Terry Bradshaw, Bart Starr, Tom Brady, Joe Montana, and Eli Manning as the only two-time Super Bowl MVPs, I don’t really know what that term ‘drop the mic’ is, but I guess if there was one, there really is no ‘yeah-but,’ after that.
“It wasn’t like he just played those two seasons. He answered the bell, played his butt off, won some huge games for his team.”
Peyton Manning is correct that it is difficult to tell the entire story of the NFL without including Eli’s pair of Super Bowl victories and Super Bowl MVPs against the Patriots.
However, Manning is just a 117-117 regular-season quarterback, who never won an MVP award or made an All-Pro team. Manning only made six trips to the postseason in 16 years and was one-and-done four of those times. Manning’s case will be bolstered by his 210 consecutive games played streak, and the fact that he retires as the NFL’s seventh-leading passer.
Manning’s Hall of Fame candidacy will rest largely on the pool of modern-day candidates that he is up against, and how selectors view his complicated resumè.
As the sports world celebrates Eli Manning’s career, honors his contributions to the New York/New Jersey community and to pediatric cancer research, Peyton says he’ll always remember the camaraderie, and of course, Eli’s pranks.
“He’s the silent assassin,” Manning joked of Eli’s reputation as a locker room prankster. “You’ve really got to watch him. The best time he got me on was when we were on a golf trip one time, and we were staying in the same room, and my bed was up against a corner. I was taking a nap and he jumped on top of me and gave me an absolute atomic wedgie. He had all the leverage. My shoulders were stuck in the corner, I couldn’t get out.
"I haven’t had a chance to get him back. Maybe if we play some more golf now, I’ll have a chance to get him back. But, he’s still one-up on me.”
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