Latest / OneLegUpAlex Media / OneLegUpAlex Sports- ELI MANNING, WHEN WILL HE GET THE CALL TO THE HALL?! 1-28-26
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- 0:01Speaker 1: No fancy music, everybody, no fancy intro, no fancy song.
- 0:06Speaker 1: This is raw. According to reports, a day after Bill
- 0:11Speaker 1: Belichick misses the Hall of Fame on his second try,
- 0:15Speaker 1: Eli Manning has missed out on the Hall of Fame.
- 0:18Speaker 1: What if the frick is Canton doing? New York Giants
- 0:23Speaker 1: quarterback fell short of the cut, making his second straight
- 0:27Speaker 1: time falling short. Eli Manning, When will he get there?
- 0:35Speaker 1: He misses it again? Okay, his regular season stats were subpar.
- 0:41Speaker 1: I hate to tell you that he liked but it's true.
- 0:44Speaker 1: But look what he did for New York City. Look
- 0:46Speaker 1: what he did those two games. He had a great defense,
- 0:50Speaker 1: that's true. But that scramble alone is a Hall of
- 0:54Speaker 1: Fame scramble to throw it to Tyrene's habit until remake
- 0:57Speaker 1: it the catch Eli Manning missing the Hall Hall of
- 1:00Speaker 1: Fame again. Here. I was about to talk about how
- 1:05Speaker 1: Tim Walls and President Trump are trying to make good
- 1:08Speaker 1: for the better men of Minneapolis. But this is New
- 1:12Speaker 1: York centric right here, as I wear my giant sweater,
- 1:17Speaker 1: right now, as I got a picture of Eli signing
- 1:20Speaker 1: helmets at Fanatics Fest and wore that guy's number ten
- 1:26Speaker 1: everywhere I went, back in the day, a childhood hero
- 1:33Speaker 1: misses the Super misses the Hall of Fame. According to
- 1:39Speaker 1: Ahoo Sports and others, calm me down, Ryan, this is
- 1:46Speaker 1: pissing me off. Eli Manning should be in the Hall
- 1:51Speaker 1: of Fame. He deserves to be there. Ian O'Connor writes,
- 1:59Speaker 1: El Manny will have to wait at least another year
- 2:02Speaker 1: for induction in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Ryan,
- 2:05Speaker 1: Do I have to meet him first? That would have
- 2:06Speaker 1: to happen. I don't understand it. The former New York
- 2:10Speaker 1: Giants quarterback did not make the cut after being one
- 2:13Speaker 1: of the fifteen Modern Era finalists for the second consecutive year.
- 2:17Speaker 1: Manning is one of six players in NFL history to
- 2:22Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl MVP Award multiple times. That's up
- 2:27Speaker 1: there with Montana Bradshaw, Starr Brady, and Patrick Mahomes. Yes,
- 2:36Speaker 1: I understand his regular seas records was one seventeen and
- 2:40Speaker 1: one seventeen. But the guy brought something to the city.
- 2:46Speaker 1: I remember when he came into the league to replace
- 2:51Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer Kurt Warner who was injured at
- 2:55Speaker 1: beating up and whatnot, and he had a rough start
- 2:59Speaker 1: that first playoff game against Carolina. I was at where
- 3:03Speaker 1: they got shut out awful, but then Coughlin calmed down,
- 3:07Speaker 1: he finally coached the kid right, and Manning led these
- 3:12Speaker 1: guys through. I mean, it wasn't just a super Bowl.
- 3:15Speaker 1: Both times he had to get him through Tampa. He
- 3:18Speaker 1: had to get him through. We beat Dallas in the
- 3:21Speaker 1: playoffs that year. And don't forget about the Green Bay
- 3:24Speaker 1: game where it's freaking below freezing and times has to
- 3:30Speaker 1: make those field goals and he does, but Manny got
- 3:34Speaker 1: them there with a stellar defense. Then what about that
- 3:40Speaker 1: twenty eleven twenty twelve team. I've had him on. Bradshaw
- 3:44Speaker 1: on this show a couple of times, though he didn't
- 3:47Speaker 1: want to come on last time because he's like, this
- 3:49Speaker 1: team's not to talk about. Hopefully that changed with Harball,
- 3:52Speaker 1: we'll see. But Bradshaw was part of that magic. Brandon
- 3:57Speaker 1: Jacobs was too, manningham Nicks. The list goes on and on,
- 4:05Speaker 1: and I'll tell you I remember that play where he
- 4:08Speaker 1: threw to the sideline and many him made that incredible
- 4:12Speaker 1: catch to keep the drive going. And of course Brady
- 4:17Speaker 1: two years in a row, two years super Bowls in
- 4:20Speaker 1: a row against the Giants, he misses in the end
- 4:23Speaker 1: zone twice because that defense stepped up for the Giants.
- 4:28Speaker 1: But Manning deserves to be in the Hall of Fame.
- 4:33Speaker 1: This is outrageous, Belichick, Brady, Okay, you can talk about
- 4:37Speaker 1: the de Flakegate and other things, but Manning did a
- 4:41Speaker 1: clean He played the game clean. He was a little goofy,
- 4:46Speaker 1: but he played the game clean. He also had that streaker.
- 4:51Speaker 1: I'll never forget that. He had that streak up two
- 4:52Speaker 1: hundred and ten starts, which is the third longest streak
- 4:55Speaker 1: ever has But another year, we'll have to wait. Just
- 5:03Speaker 1: like waiting for a Super Bowl title to hit New
- 5:05Speaker 1: York again, just like waiting for a World Series to
- 5:09Speaker 1: hit New York again, Just like waiting for the Knicks
- 5:11Speaker 1: to actually bring on Malario Brian again. We just are
- 5:16Speaker 1: in a waiting pattern. I'm sorry, I forgot to mention
- 5:20Speaker 1: the Mets. Just like the Mets fans are now waiting
- 5:22Speaker 1: for one Soda to bring them a World Series to Queens,
- 5:27Speaker 1: we have to wait. I'm getting too old for this shit.
- 5:31Speaker 1: I'm getting too old. I want to see Manny in
- 5:34Speaker 1: the Hall. I would like to see another Super Bowl,
- 5:38Speaker 1: or another World Series, or an actual NBA championship, or hell,
- 5:43Speaker 1: even a h a Stanley Cup Again, sometimes I'd like
- 5:50Speaker 1: one gol slown away from not seeing anything, So of
- 5:54Speaker 1: course I want to see it now while I'm here
- 5:57Speaker 1: living and breathing. And of course, now this includes basically
- 6:03Speaker 1: petitioning for third times of charm for Eli Manning. It
- 6:07Speaker 1: shouldn't have been taken. I get the first ballot, Okay,
- 6:10Speaker 1: you could make that argument, but the second try, the
- 6:17Speaker 1: second try, it fumes me up because what he did
- 6:27Speaker 1: was he brought a Super Bowl to New York for
- 6:30Speaker 1: the first time since nineteen ninety one. They had not
- 6:33Speaker 1: won since nineteen ninety one. And not only did it once,
- 6:39Speaker 1: he did twice in four years, which I know Brady
- 6:42Speaker 1: have the dynasty and all that, but two and an
- 6:44Speaker 1: out of four is still a damn good accomplishment. And yeah,
- 6:49Speaker 1: Coughlin settled down, he coached, they sent His more relaxed
- 6:53Speaker 1: approach helped everybody out those two Super Bowl runs. I mean,
- 7:01Speaker 1: I want to hear what Lindsay has to say. I
- 7:02Speaker 1: want to hear what Ryan I say. I want to
- 7:03Speaker 1: hear what license plate guy Joe Rubac has to say.
- 7:06Speaker 1: I want to hear what jazz meets sing the Giant
- 7:09Speaker 1: singer has to say, Nathan, all my media friends, what
- 7:13Speaker 1: say you today? What say you as Eli Manning again?
- 7:19Speaker 1: Missus Canton. I was ready to Ryan, you don't know this.
- 7:22Speaker 1: I was ready to book my flight to Canton this year.
- 7:24Speaker 1: I was ready to go see this man being inducted
- 7:27Speaker 1: into the Hall of Fame. I was about to buy
- 7:29Speaker 1: the plate ticket, only to find out not this year.
- 7:35Speaker 1: Third time's a charm for a two time Super Bowl winner.
- 7:42Speaker 1: I don't even care who makes it this year. I
- 7:44Speaker 1: really don't, because it should be Eli, There's no doubt
- 7:49Speaker 1: about it. It should be Eli Manning going into the
- 7:57Speaker 1: Hall this year. And another thing, I am going to
- 8:03Speaker 1: hopefully get to talk to him in person for that
- 8:05Speaker 1: excess and tell him you deserve to be in the Hall,
- 8:09Speaker 1: and maybe that'll get him in there. But Eli missing
- 8:14Speaker 1: the cut again, This is ridiculous. It is almost like
- 8:23Speaker 1: Don Manningly missing the Baseball Hall of Fame again. It's
- 8:29Speaker 1: ridiculous for another straight ballot, two New York legends are
- 8:35Speaker 1: not in the Hall. Is that because they don't care
- 8:37Speaker 1: about New York? Is that because they don't think highly
- 8:41Speaker 1: of the accomplishments of both Manning and Manningly And Manning respectively.
- 8:47Speaker 1: I got it. Andrew Jones a great defensive ballplayer. He
- 8:51Speaker 1: would climb the seat of the defence at a turner
- 8:55Speaker 1: field and make those unbelievable plays. He probably killed the
- 8:59Speaker 1: Mets changes if you times too with his You know,
- 9:02Speaker 1: his glove and his bat. Came to the Yankees, had
- 9:05Speaker 1: a great few little months here, a couple of years here.
- 9:11Speaker 1: But manningly should be in there also. Eli Manning should
- 9:16Speaker 1: be getting his uh bust, I guess because you know
- 9:22Speaker 1: they make the bust of his face in Canton this
- 9:26Speaker 1: year he battled injury. I'll never forget being at the
- 9:33Speaker 1: game he came back against the Cowboys in twenty seventeen,
- 9:37Speaker 1: and the fans, Yeah, they were tough on him at times,
- 9:39Speaker 1: A lot of times. A lot of times we thought
- 9:43Speaker 1: we could make it beyond where we were in that
- 9:45Speaker 1: regular season mode. I do also think Plexico burst jinxed
- 9:51Speaker 1: the rest of Manning's career. You shoot yourself up at
- 9:54Speaker 1: a club when your team is six and zero a
- 9:58Speaker 1: year after winning the Super Bowl. Come on, that set
- 10:02Speaker 1: the Giants on a really bad down swing even beyond
- 10:05Speaker 1: that second Super Bowl. I don't care what you say.
- 10:07Speaker 1: It was a jinx. It was a jinx, and Burris
- 10:10Speaker 1: actually caught the game winning touchdown in a eight if
- 10:13Speaker 1: you remember, if you remember. But after that nothing really
- 10:22Speaker 1: felt the same. The momentum felt killed, and I just
- 10:34Speaker 1: I just am blown away. He should have been in
- 10:39Speaker 1: the Hall this twenty twenty six a second time. We
- 10:48Speaker 1: all have to wait a third time. It's almost disgraceful.
- 11:02Speaker 1: It's almost disgraceful. I just you add the tensions of
- 11:13Speaker 1: all this stuff going on around us and the freezing temperatures,
- 11:18Speaker 1: some good news would have been nice today. Some good
- 11:21Speaker 1: news of Eli Manning making the cut and going to
- 11:25Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame would have been nice. But no,
- 11:29Speaker 1: we have to keep being tortured in the sub freezing
- 11:31Speaker 1: temperature world worried, and keep waiting and waiting like we're
- 11:36Speaker 1: waiting for another championship to come down the cane of Heroes. Yeah,
- 11:42Speaker 1: but the Liberty was there. I understand. I love the
- 11:44Speaker 1: Liberty run. That was a special run. But the Big
- 11:48Speaker 1: Four have not had a championship since the Giants won
- 11:53Speaker 1: that second Super Bowl. We are five thousand plus days.
- 11:58Speaker 1: We're probably gonna hit seven thousand days by the end.
- 12:00Speaker 1: By the end of twenty seven, or twenty six. This
- 12:03Speaker 1: has been it's been torture. What would I like to
- 12:07Speaker 1: say the Jets winn a Super Bowl in my lifetime?
- 12:09Speaker 1: Sure that would be interesting, because I I do have
- 12:14Speaker 1: a soft spot for the Jets. I think it's it's
- 12:16Speaker 1: just stupid the way they operate over there on the
- 12:20Speaker 1: asside met Life Stadium. But this beyond not seeing a championship.
- 12:26Speaker 1: I think not seeing Eli Manning hit the Hall of
- 12:28Speaker 1: Fame hurts the soul of little Alex. And what I
- 12:32Speaker 1: mean by that is the kid that wore it Mannags
- 12:35Speaker 1: jersey from oh five till at least twenty seventeen, and
- 12:42Speaker 1: I have a managed jersey in I have two of
- 12:43Speaker 1: them in my closet right now. That kid is hurting
- 12:48Speaker 1: right now. And that is why that kid opened up
- 12:53Speaker 1: a podcast twelve fourteen or twelve fourteen years ago to
- 12:58Speaker 1: vent about this stuff in college. Now in adulthood, we
- 13:04Speaker 1: got to be disappointed again by now the football writers,
- 13:08Speaker 1: the NFL beat sportswriter. I cannot comprehend it. I was
- 13:16Speaker 1: gonna COMPREHENDI. I've gone about thirteen minutes on this, but
- 13:19Speaker 1: I'm I'm fired up, and I don't have time to
- 13:23Speaker 1: say well, who should be in and not? And I
- 13:26Speaker 1: don't have time to do that. But if you see
- 13:31Speaker 1: the stats, he is, as written by the Sporting News
- 13:37Speaker 1: Billy Hayden, he's one of six players and then history
- 13:45Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl, play MVP multiple times. And I
- 13:50Speaker 1: know Patrick's still young, but he'll probably be a Hall
- 13:52Speaker 1: of Famer. Tom Brady Cheating's acide seven time Super Bowl winner,
- 13:57Speaker 1: probably gonna be a Hall of Fame obviously, But Hannah
- 14:00Speaker 1: Bradshaw star all Hall of famers. So what makes Eli different?
- 14:06Speaker 1: His average regular season where sometimes he was injured. That
- 14:12Speaker 1: shouldn't stop him from deserving his rightful place in Canton, Ohio.
- 14:19Speaker 1: That should not stop him or stop the writers from
- 14:21Speaker 1: voting him in. But I guess it'll have to be
- 14:25Speaker 1: third times of charm. But you know what, in lieu
- 14:33Speaker 1: of this, we're gonna drop the fanatics link to his
- 14:35Speaker 1: twenty eight Super Bowl jersey, the one I love so much,
- 14:39Speaker 1: that first of ball in Arizona because that was just
- 14:42Speaker 1: a classic memory game. And I'll drop the jersey so
- 14:45Speaker 1: you guys can have a piece of that history in
- 14:48Speaker 1: mourning that he did not make it a second time
- 14:52Speaker 1: and just wear it all year, just wear Manning all year.
- 14:55Speaker 1: Make the point, show up to the Giants stadium in
- 14:58Speaker 1: and say, hey, football writers, look look at us. We
- 15:01Speaker 1: all want to lie in the hall. Listen to the
- 15:04Speaker 1: fans for once and not stupid analytic bowl crap. Okay,
- 15:13Speaker 1: so one seventeen one to seventeen record, he won two
- 15:18Speaker 1: Super Bowls in the most incredible ways, dramatic ways, Eli
- 15:27Speaker 1: Manning ways, and I mean Peyton Mannings in the hall.
- 15:34Speaker 1: His brother should join him sooner than later. Well we
- 15:39Speaker 1: all can be here to see it. So by your
- 15:45Speaker 1: Eli jersey now where it all year long, make the case,
- 15:49Speaker 1: make the point that the fans want to lie in
- 15:53Speaker 1: and they'd all listen to us for a third time,
- 15:55Speaker 1: in the third time because his accomplishments hall of fame
- 16:00Speaker 1: worthy and we should help him have one leg up
- 16:06Speaker 1: on the ballot next year.