Eli was looking for his fiancee, Abby McGrew. It’s been a longstanding superstition between her and Eli that she watch from the stands; her being in a luxury box is considered bad luck. (eg: Jessica Simpson.)
Turns out she wasn’t in the stands that day since she had the flu and couldn’t take the harsh conditions, so she watched from the suite. It would seem that the curse has been broken.
IIRC, Joe Montana has two high-school age sons who are pretty good. I think they’re QBs, but not positive. I guarantee you that Joe won’t be anywhere near as much of a spotlight hog as Archie if his two boys make it to the Superbowl.
As distasteful as I find Archie’s media whoredom, you have to admit that it’s pretty remarkable that the guy has two sons who were starting QBs in two consecutive Superbowls. (Three, actually, when they face each other in next year’s Superbowl, but I’m getting ahead of myself.)
He was great, but the Aints were really really bad. There really isn’t a stat for eight yard pass completeions on third and ten that would have been ten yard losses or incompletes with any other quarterback. That won’t get him in the Hall of Fame, nor should it, but I can see why he might feel a little cheated.
On the other hand, he’s had over 20 years to get over it already.
Look to Howie Long if you want to see a father handle the on-field success of one of his children without stealing the spotlight. It isn’t difficult. If someone puts a camera on him in whatever box he happens to be sitting in, he turns out the lights in the box. In short, he lets it be known that he doesn’t want the camera on him at all. Most producers figured it out pretty quickly.
All the Mannings are media whores. I mean how many commercials are Peyton and Eli in?
We’ll never know of course, but if you had put Terry Bradshaw on the Saints and Arch on the Steelers, would history have been any different? Can we say for sure that at least part of the Saints failures weren’t his doing? Was anyone here a Saints season ticket holder at the time who could shed some light on what made them so bad?
I wouldn’t call appearing in a commercial “media whoring” I’d call it payday.
BTW, in which commercials does Eli appear?
First laugh-out-loud I’ve seen or read today. Thanks lieu
Look on the bright side. At least the Colts didn’t make it to the Super bowl as well. If it were a Manning vs. Manning SB you would never get him off the air. This way he has to split time with all the “Brady: Greatest ever?” stories.
Competitive oreo eating, and
“unstoppable, Eli Manning, is.”
off the top of my head. I bet he does more in the metro region.
Phil Simms manages to handle it without looking like a fool. Well, he did, I guess. I’m not sure if Chris Simms is going to come back after being on IR all season.
Phil Simms has this part time job he has to do on Sundays. He doesn’t get to watch his son play most of the time.
I’m not sure why they are saying Burress was ignored. That night I saw him interviewed on TV at least four times. He may be exciting on the field and talks a lot of shit but off the field he is very quiet and boring. All he does is parrot the team speech that Coughlin has been giving them. That might be why the print media was staying away. They need quotes.
Except when his part-time job corresponds with his son’s playing schedule, I guess. But Howie Long has got a part time job as well, and I was responding to a post about how he behaves.
It was either this or another discussion of Spygate…I’d say the media did us a public service by chatting up Archie.
Not as many as you’d think. I see way too much of the local NYC market sports broadcasts / networks, and he’s not really in that many.
He’s had that unstoppable thing for a while; I think it started in the NYC market and then expanded. Other than that, he did a couple “This Is SportsCenter” spots, plus the same type of thing a couple years back for MSG with Chad Pennington. MSG used to have a NYC-centric SportsCenter-style show called SportsDesk – which I dearly loved – but that’s now defunct. Luckily, SNY sprung up and has put on the same deal in its stead called SportsNite, but it’s weighted toward Jets coverage.
So other than promotional sports show spots, Eli’s only product endorsements I see commercials for in the NYC market are the orea races (which are painfully bad) and the watches (which used to be painfully ironic.)
I heard a deal is all set. If the Giants win, the camera will show Achie Manning. You’ll hear the question, “Archie Manning, your son’s team just won the Super Bowl. What are you going to do?” Manning will say, “I’m going to Disney World.”
Archie should say:
“I’m going to have my vasectomy reversed.”
