RoanokeFan
03-07-2012, 12:10 PM
PEYTON COMING TO THE JETS WOULD BE "FUN": ELI (http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/giantsblog/peyton_coming_to_the_jets_would_HTMTfFei1uRz93AA3Q rTTM)
"Eli Manning thinks older brother Peyton coming to play for the Jets will be
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Well, at least that’s what he thought last month, when Peyton was still with
the Colts, before Wednesday’s not shocking but still stunning release from the
only NFL team he’s ever known.</p>
“Yeah, it’d be fun,” Eli said last month during a radio interview on 1050
ESPN, responding light-heartedly to a question about how he’d feel about Peyton
playing for the Jets. “We could probably commute to work and we’d come home and
eat dinner together, have the kids be playing … We could share notes on
opponents and watch some film together.’’</p>
Growing a bit more serious, Eli added “I think it would be interesting to
have your brother in the same city playing football together. I don’t think we
would see each other that often because our schedules would be a whole lot
different, probably just talk on the phone more than see each other during the
season. It would be interesting. I’m not saying it’s going to happen or I want
it to happen, but to have your brother that close to you and playing in New York
would be very unique.”</p>
This figures to be a very sobering day for Eli, who probably never envisioned
the day when Peyton – an icon in Indianapolis - would be sent packing from the
Colts. You have to think this turn of events prompts Eli to consider his own
career and staying-power with the Giants. If you don’t think there ever could be
an un-amicable parting of the ways, consider the case of Joe Namath, Joe
Montana, Brett Favre and now Peyton Manning. </p>
Eli has four years remaining on his contract, taking him through the 2015
season, when he will be 35 years old – the same age Peyton is now. Eli’s deal
will pay him $55.9 million in salary in those four years. Maybe he wins another
Super Bowl or two and rides of into the sunset. Maybe he wants another contract,
his performance is down and the Giants balk. Who knows? Just one month removed
from a second Super Bowl MVP performance, Eli Manning is gold in New York,
seemingly intertwined within the Giants very fabric. At the moment, he is. But,
as Peyton now knows, very few golden situations last forever."</p>
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"Eli Manning thinks older brother Peyton coming to play for the Jets will be
“fun.’’<div style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; COLOR: #000000; OVERFLOW: hidden; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; TEXT-DECORATION: none">
Well, at least that’s what he thought last month, when Peyton was still with
the Colts, before Wednesday’s not shocking but still stunning release from the
only NFL team he’s ever known.</p>
“Yeah, it’d be fun,” Eli said last month during a radio interview on 1050
ESPN, responding light-heartedly to a question about how he’d feel about Peyton
playing for the Jets. “We could probably commute to work and we’d come home and
eat dinner together, have the kids be playing … We could share notes on
opponents and watch some film together.’’</p>
Growing a bit more serious, Eli added “I think it would be interesting to
have your brother in the same city playing football together. I don’t think we
would see each other that often because our schedules would be a whole lot
different, probably just talk on the phone more than see each other during the
season. It would be interesting. I’m not saying it’s going to happen or I want
it to happen, but to have your brother that close to you and playing in New York
would be very unique.”</p>
This figures to be a very sobering day for Eli, who probably never envisioned
the day when Peyton – an icon in Indianapolis - would be sent packing from the
Colts. You have to think this turn of events prompts Eli to consider his own
career and staying-power with the Giants. If you don’t think there ever could be
an un-amicable parting of the ways, consider the case of Joe Namath, Joe
Montana, Brett Favre and now Peyton Manning. </p>
Eli has four years remaining on his contract, taking him through the 2015
season, when he will be 35 years old – the same age Peyton is now. Eli’s deal
will pay him $55.9 million in salary in those four years. Maybe he wins another
Super Bowl or two and rides of into the sunset. Maybe he wants another contract,
his performance is down and the Giants balk. Who knows? Just one month removed
from a second Super Bowl MVP performance, Eli Manning is gold in New York,
seemingly intertwined within the Giants very fabric. At the moment, he is. But,
as Peyton now knows, very few golden situations last forever."</p>
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