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Eli Manning pulled the curtain back on some of his family dynamics. He outed his father, Archie, and brother, Peyton, as being on opposite ends of the poor texting etiquette spectrum.
Appearing on the “Great Dane Nation” podcast with legendary former kicker Morten Andersen, Eli talked about how his 72-year-old father is now walking with a cane due to all the hits he took as a quarterback, and segued into an anecdote about Archie as a manic texter.
“My dad, there’s not a better person,” Eli said. “He’ll never talk about his offensive line. No excuses. No regrets about anything in his life. He has great friendships and relationships with all his teammates, coaches. Current coaches, current players. He texts more than a 13-year-old girl.
“When we’re together, when we’re sitting at the dinner table — in our household we kind of have a no phones, no iPads rule; that’s a little time when we can try to get together a little bit — my dad’s there on his phone the whole time. ‘Aw sorry, I’m texting Trevor Lawrence,’” the former quarterback added.
Eli, the two-time Super Bowl winning quarterback who played his whole career with the New York Giants, said he has to tell his father to “take a little break — we’re at the dinner table.”
“It should be you telling me that,” Eli laughed. “It shouldn’t be the son telling the dad to get off the phone.”
Anderson juxtaposed this by saying that when he texts Peyton, he usually only gets emojis back. Eli told the host that he shouldn’t feel snubbed since his Manningcast co-host deals out similar treatment to his family.
“Same here,” Eli said. “I’m not even asking him a question, or I am asking him a question — and I need a yes or no, or to know what time he’s getting in tomorrow — I just get like the “ok” emoji. I don’t know what that means.”
Eli finished it off with tales of Peyton’s confusing predilection for sending voice memo texts — which no one likes to receive.
“And now, if he has something to say — if it’s too long to text and he actually has to use words or write a sentence — he doesn’t text that anymore. He leaves a voice memo. So he texts you what he wants to say, but he doesn’t actually have a conversation.
“And in it, he asks questions! In the memo. So sometimes I’m listening to it, and I’ll start answering. Like, oh yeah, I forgot, you’re not really talking to me. It’s just a recording.”
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