B&C Morning Show: Craig Pumps Up Eli, Jerry Delivers His Update
Picking up where he left off during today's entertaining show open, Craig hurled more praise in the direction of Eli Manning.
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Picking up where he left off during today's entertaining show open, Craig hurled more praise in the direction of Eli Manning.
With the Vince Lombardi Trophy held high, Eli Manning passed by thousands of cheering Giants fans eager to get a glimpse of a piece of Super Bowl history.
Tom Coughlin is coming back. Eli Manning is only getting better. And the vast majority of the Giants' starting lineup is under contract. Can anybody say repeat?
"I get a Christmas gift from you every year. It's a jacket. I don't think Peyton gets that," Manning told Letterman. "That's how I knew I was the favorite."
Best team? Does it really matter when all that counts is that silver piece of hardware?
That's right, our guy Eli went out to Peyton country and Mann-ed up against the New England Patriots.
There was apparently some dancing among Giants players on the plane ride home from Indy, as Jerry Recco provided some audio 'tweeted' by linebacker Mark Herzlich of him and his teammates singing their team song...
Needless to say, Giants fever is everywhere, including the town right over the bridge, where star quarterback Eli Manning lives in a high-rise overlooking the Hudson River with his wife, Abby, and daughter, Ava.
So what's left for Eli Manning, other than to go for three Super Bowl MVPs, right?
Sunday night was epic for Neil Keefe as his Giants won Super Bowl XLVI, and he shares his thoughts from the 21-17 win over the Patriots.
Manning? All he does is take his baby face and $10 haircut back home, with his second Super Bowl MVP trophy and a second ring.
For a fortnight the pretty people – some football fans and some just poseurs at a party watching an old, lip-synching singer – donned Patriots jerseys. The winners wore Giants jerseys.
Beset by injuries, the Giants were counted out before the season even began. At 7-7, they seemed doomed to narrowly miss the playoffs. Forget about all of that now. Get ready for a parade, New York.
Sure, Victor Cruz had on his dancin' shoes Sunday. But it was fellow wide receiver Mario Manningham who saved the Giants with his feet.
Blame me, Welker said. Blame me for letting a ball I always catch fall to the ground.
No more hot seat for Tom Coughlin. No more second-guessing. The 65-year-old made NFL history on Sunday.
Archie Manning told reporters that "it's special" to see his younger son Eli win Super Bowl XLVI in Peyton's home stadium.
Eli Manning once again led an inspirational fourth quarter drive as the New York Giants defeated the New England Patriots, 21-17 to claim Super Bowl XLVI.
Spot-on from beginning to end, Manning went 30 for 40 for 296 yards, with one touchdown pass and zero interceptions.
Indianapolis Colts fans are pulling for Eli Manning to win Super Bowl XLVI.
Patriots fans don't seem to tthink too highly of New Yorkers or Eli Manning.
MVP quarterbacks on marquee franchises. A rematch of a nail-biter from four years ago, featuring many of the same key characters. Madonna and plenty of Manning; Eli, and Peyton, too.
So ready or not, it's time for the "other" Manning vs. Brady, Part II. Both are back in Sunday's Super Bowl, four years after they first clashed, each with plenty still to prove.
Whether it's on the streets downtown to the local pubs, it is tough being a Giants fan in Patriot nation. It also seems everyone wants Eli Manning's head on a stick.
