A Superbowl Post about Eli Manning

So in a few hours I'll be hunkering down to watch the Superbowl and cheer on the New York Giants. I know that there's some people out there who want the Pats to get their perfect season, and I know that there's some people that hate the Pats and want anyone to beat them, but there's one and only one reason I'm pulling for the Giants - Eli Manning needs this.

Here's the skinny - Eli Manning is the brother of Peyton Manning. Both are first-string NFL quarterbacks. Peyton won the Superbowl last year, Eli has the chance to win it this year. Peyton Manning is considered by some to be the best quarterback in the history of the sport. Eli, not so much. Eli doesn't get much respect.

If Eli Manning was in any other family he'd be considered a champ. Let's be fair here, he's an NFL quarterback. He's among the elite in his sport. There's hundreds of thousands of people who try to get into shoes like his every year and fail miserably. If he had anyone else as a brother he'd be considered awesome. Instead, everyone that ever talks about him or sees him is always going to be thinking "How come I got the crappy Manning?" It doesn't matter that Eli is on his own a respectable athelete, he's not Peyton, so he sucks.

So that's why he needs this. Peyton can go on to win every Superbowl for the rest of his career, pass a million yards, and have a twenty foot tall statue of him built outside the football hall of fame, and that's fine. At the end of the day at least Eli can say "I beat the best team that professional football has ever produced." That's one thing that Peyton will never be able to say and perhaps the only reason anyone will ever actually be interested in talking to Eli Manning.