Eli Manning Not Sure How To Tell Giants He Was Adopted

TJ · Jun 27, 2007

After his second consecutive atrocious performance Monday night just the latest of many awful games in his three-year career New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning is starting to feel the pressure to perform from both outside and inside the Giants organization. And that pressure has caused him to consider revealing a little-know fact about his past.

Everyone knows that the Giants drafted me almost exclusively because of my family name, said Manning. Most scouts rated both Philip Rivers and Ben Roethlisberger higher than me. And, obviously, for good reason. But three years ago the idea was that I would be great simply because of some sort of quarterback gene or something in my DNA. But, uh, heres the thing: I dont have the same DNA as my brother Peyton. Or my adopted father Archie.

The Giants quarterback says he was adopted at one month of age by the Manning family after Archie Manning saw a story on local New Orleans news about the abandoned bastard son of a one-legged French Quarter prostitute with a lazy eye and a mentally-goobered long haul trucker with a severe case of gout.

The story really touched me and I wanted to give this sad, pathetic child a home, said Archie Manning. Plus, my wife and I thought it would be great if Peyton and Cooper had a younger sister.

The Mannings soon discovered that little Elisha We assumed that was a girls name, says Archie wasnt female at all, but instead an oddly-named newborn boy with two little testicles that had yet to descend.

But while it was an open adoption, almost no one outside the Manning family knew that Eli wasnt born a Manning and the family was happy to keep it that way so their new son wouldnt be thought of as different.

And as little Eli grew, any doubts that he was a true Manning were washed away by his uncanny resemblance to his father and brothers.

We were amazed and pleasantly surprised to see the person Eli grew into, said Archie. He had that certain Manning look. I dont know exactly how to describe it, but Ive heard people refer to it as inbred.

Unfortunately, however, with those Manning looks came Manning expectations.

Ive always had trouble meeting the expectations people have for me on the football field, says Eli. I just dont have the same athletic pedigree as Peyton. Heck, I hear my birth father comes from a long line of clubfoots. Im just lucky I didnt get that.

But as beneficial as it was for Eli Manning to conceal the truth about his birth parents during his upbringing, that secret came back to bite him once his pro career began.

Would we have traded a whole bunch of picks to bring in Eli Manning here as the No. 1 overall pick had we known his mother was a one-legged tramp and his father was a mentally slow clubfoot with a myriad of diseases and health problems? No. Of course not, says Giants general manager Ernie Accorsi. I was actually very, very high on Ben Roethlisberger and, obviously, Philip Rivers would have been a great pick, too. There was pressure to bring in that Manning name, though. So we did. Now that were stuck with him all we can do is hope that nurture won out over nature and hell become a great quarterback. Although thats probably hoping for too much since his adopted father was an atrocious pro quarterback, too.
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Source: SportsPickle

TDJets72027 · Jun 27, 2007

Sheli is a piece of garbage.

DawkinsINT · Jun 27, 2007

“The story really touched me and I wanted to give this sad, pathetic child a home,” said Archie Manning. “Plus, my wife and I thought it would be great if Peyton and Cooper had a younger sister.”
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SHAKEDOWN · Jun 27, 2007

:itsgood:

Buffgrandpa · Jun 28, 2007

That there is funny...

yisman · Jun 28, 2007

last night I was randomly surfing around and checked out sportspickle and saw this.

what's weird is that sportspickle has a len bias story on the homepage, and it isn't marked as sportspickle from the past. Pretty sure Gallo wrote that one quite a while ago.

linz_renee · Jun 28, 2007

Sad... he's a good athlete, just is compared to his family all the time.

Oh... and he probably got a little more of the screw up gene than payton... instead of under pressure... it's just all the time.

Thumper · Jun 29, 2007

linz_renee said: ↑

Sad... he's a good athlete, just is compared to his family all the time.

Oh... and he probably got a little more of the screw up gene than payton... instead of under pressure... it's just all the time.
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Nope, Eli is a whiny little snitch.

linz_renee · Jun 29, 2007

That's just fact... doesn't need to be stated.

Omen · Jun 29, 2007

sheli sucks

wide right · Jun 29, 2007

TJ · Jun 29, 2007

That pic never gets old

wide right · Jun 29, 2007

TJ said: ↑

That pic never gets old
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No prob. I love drunk pictures of QBs

Big Ben

Kyle Orton

brakos82 · Jun 29, 2007

wide right said: ↑

Kyle Orton

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I really hope that that is her hand next to the arm holding the whiskey. :|

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