nytimes.com - 1/29/2008
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Olivia and Archie Manning, top right, with their three sons in 1996 at their home in New Orleans. From left, Cooper, Peyton and Eli.
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I WOULD NEVER FORGIVE MY PARENTS
With Leather - Sports news and gossip, panda sex, and the occasional Toonces the driving cat Photoshop —
... With a month of solid, confident play getting the youngest Manning brother to the Super Bowl just one year after big brother Peyton, Eli Manning is now a media darling of sorts, and two pieces from NYC newspapers are particularly embarrassing. First up is the New York Times profile that basically calls Eli a huge mama's boy and provides the picture above (dated 1996 -- "And I miss youuuuu... like the deserts miss the rain"). ...
The Lost Mannings
Cousins of Ron Mexico —
... This is a special post for everybody that went to college with me. The picture originated in this awful piece about what a little girl Eli Manning is at heart. The gist is made up in this quote I made up: ...
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Eli Manning Plays With Your Perceptions Of Reality [Super Bowl XLII] —
Deadspin
As amazing as Eli Manning was last night, it might have behooved someone on the Giants, whether it was a PR person or just an assistant coach, to inform him that when you win the Super Bowl, you're supposed to take your pads off before you put on the championship T-shirt. Doofy fella kept those pads on the whole night. We bet he's still wearing them.
As we mentioned in our Times column, ...
Cooper Manning sits at the kid table —
Mile High Ramblings
New York Times, why do you do the ESPN thing? A story about Eli's closeness to a family member? The Mannings are not just Eli, Peyton, Archie, and a cast of supporting characters. Well, they are, but those supporting characters, as we have learned from shows like Celebrity Apprentice and Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, really any celebrity show with the likes of some guy who did the lighting for
Eli escapes Peyton's shadow (AP) —
Yahoo! Sports - NFL News
Baby brothers across America know hardship. They grow up playing "permanent center" while the bigger kids get to be quarterbacks and wide receivers. They lose every game of Monopoly and Risk, every wrestling match and household power struggle ...
