Elisha Nelson (Eli) Manning (age 34) was born January 3, 1981, in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Archie and Olivia Manning. Eli has two older brothers, Cooper (age 41, born in 1974) and Peyton Manning (age 39, born on March 24, 1976). (1) Although the Manning brothers were born in Louisiana, the family considers themselves to be from Mississippi because they attended school here and moved here when the children were small. Eli and his college sweetheart, Abigail McGrew, got married on April 18, 2008. They have one child, Ava Manning who was born on March 21, 2011.
Eli comes from a “football family”; his father and both of his brothers have played football their whole lives. Although he came from a football family, their parents had never put …show more content…
He had said all along that he would not play football for the Chargers; and on draft day, the team traded him to the New York Giants. Six years earlier, his brother Peyton, who had played football at the University of Tennessee, was drafted into the NFL to be a quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts. Eli was the starting quarterback for the giants and is still the starting quarterback today. At the end of his season in 2007, he lead the Giants to the Super Bowl XLII(February 3, 2008), where they defeated the previously undefeated New England Patriots and their quarterback, Tom Brady, 17 to 14. This was one of the biggest defeats in Super Bowl history. When asked about his win, Eli Manning said, “It is hard to explain what that feeling is, you don’t know whether to scream or cry or yell. You don’t know what to do.”(3) Four years later, in 2012, the two teams met again in the Super Bowl XLVI, and the Giants won 21-17, still being led by Manning and Brady. In 2008 and 2012, Eli Manning was named the Super Bowl’s Most Valued Player or MVP. (1, 2) One Eli’s fellow players; Michael Strahan, when asked about Manning, literally said, “This team goes nowhere without him.” Strahan had played for 15 years before Eli helped him win his first championship. (4- chapter one) In 2011, Eli finished regular season with 29 touchdown passes. …show more content…
Besides being worth 80 million dollars, he doesn’t allow the fame and fortune to go to his head. He has been active in efforts to rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and raising awareness about the Gulf oil spill in 2010. For the past five years, Manning has hosted an annual charity event called Guiding Eyes for the Blind’s Golf Classic, it’s a nonprofit organization that provides dogs for the blind as well as for autistic children. . Manning has also campaigned to raise 2.5 million dollars for construction of the Eli Manning Children’s Clinic at the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s children’s hospital. (1,
Eli comes from a “football family”; his father and both of his brothers have played football their whole lives. Although he came from a football family, their parents had never put …show more content…
He had said all along that he would not play football for the Chargers; and on draft day, the team traded him to the New York Giants. Six years earlier, his brother Peyton, who had played football at the University of Tennessee, was drafted into the NFL to be a quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts. Eli was the starting quarterback for the giants and is still the starting quarterback today. At the end of his season in 2007, he lead the Giants to the Super Bowl XLII(February 3, 2008), where they defeated the previously undefeated New England Patriots and their quarterback, Tom Brady, 17 to 14. This was one of the biggest defeats in Super Bowl history. When asked about his win, Eli Manning said, “It is hard to explain what that feeling is, you don’t know whether to scream or cry or yell. You don’t know what to do.”(3) Four years later, in 2012, the two teams met again in the Super Bowl XLVI, and the Giants won 21-17, still being led by Manning and Brady. In 2008 and 2012, Eli Manning was named the Super Bowl’s Most Valued Player or MVP. (1, 2) One Eli’s fellow players; Michael Strahan, when asked about Manning, literally said, “This team goes nowhere without him.” Strahan had played for 15 years before Eli helped him win his first championship. (4- chapter one) In 2011, Eli finished regular season with 29 touchdown passes. …show more content…
Besides being worth 80 million dollars, he doesn’t allow the fame and fortune to go to his head. He has been active in efforts to rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and raising awareness about the Gulf oil spill in 2010. For the past five years, Manning has hosted an annual charity event called Guiding Eyes for the Blind’s Golf Classic, it’s a nonprofit organization that provides dogs for the blind as well as for autistic children. . Manning has also campaigned to raise 2.5 million dollars for construction of the Eli Manning Children’s Clinic at the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s children’s hospital. (1,