Heard a great story about Eli tonight...

[SaltwaterServr]

One of my regular customers is from the New Orleans area. His grandmother lived two doors down from...Archie Manning.

He played backyard and street football with the neighborhood kids when he visited and got to be fairly good friends with the oldest of the three siblings. He said, without a doubt, that the oldest Manning was the best of the three before he blew out his knee or whatever his injury was.

Funny part, when they played for fun Eli was never allowed to be QB. It was always Peyton and his older brother, and no one wanted Eli because he couldn't catch. He said that if you watch the SNL skit where Peyton nails the kid in the back of the head with the ball, that's what it was like if Archie came out and forced the Manning brothers to let Eli play, or if it was an odd number of kids. They'd pick on him until he ran inside to complain to Dad, or let him get hit with the ball and start crying to Momma.

So in order to play with the big kids, Eli had to toughen up, or his Dad wouldn't let him play at all.

FWIW, he said both Trent Reznor and Anne Rice both lived in the same area as his grandmother, after she moved into a different part of town.

[realtick]

Eli sucks. Romo has a better completion percentage.

[tyke1doe]

One of my regular customers is from the New Orleans area. His grandmother lived two doors down from...Archie Manning.

He played backyard and street football with the neighborhood kids when he visited and got to be fairly good friends with the oldest of the three siblings. He said, without a doubt, the oldest Manning was the best of the three before he blew out his knee or whatever his injury was.

Funny part, when they played for fun Eli was never allowed to be QB. It was always Peyton and his older brother, and no one wanted Eli because he couldn't catch. He said that if you watch the SNL skit where Peyton nails the kid in the back of the head with the ball, that's what it was like if Archie came out and forced the Manning brothers to let Eli play, or if it was an odd number of kids. They'd pick on him until he ran inside to complain to Dad, or let him get hit with the ball and start crying to Momma.

So in order to play with the big kids, Eli had to toughen up, or his Dad wouldn't let him play at all.

FWIW, he said both Trent Reznor and Anne Rice both lived in the same area as his grandmother, after she moved into a different part of town.

He was diagnosed with a narrowing of the spine, which put his health in jeopardy if he continued to play football.

[batman36]

Spinal stenosis, I believe is what Cooper Manning was diagnosed with. Who is Anne Rice?

[SaltwaterServr]

Spinal stenosis, I believe is what Cooper Manning was diagnosed with. Who is Anne Rice?

Famous commercial author. Wrote the Vampire Chronicles series. Interview with the Vampire and Queen of the Damned both ended up being made into motion pictures.

http://www.annerice.com/

FWIW, her vampires don't sparkle, and they're not pedophiles.

[slomoxn]

Famous commercial author. Wrote the Vampire Chronicles series. Interview with the Vampire and Queen of the Damned both ended up being made into motion pictures.

http://www.annerice.com/

FWIW, her vampires don't sparkle, and they're not pedophiles.
I still haven't watched any of those sparkley vampire movies. i tried once not knowing what they were about, and then they went out in the day and he started sparkling and that was the end for me.

[casmith07]

Cooper Manning would've been an All-Pro receiver. He was a better athlete than both of them combined.

[SaltwaterServr]

Cooper Manning would've been an All-Pro receiver. He was a better athlete than both of them combined.

That is EXACTLY what my buddy said, almost to the word. He said it more that Coop could've played QB, WR, or CB and been All-World at it. Just that naturally gifted.