Eli Manning
- New York Giants (2004 -present)
- 3 × Pro Bowl selection (2008, 2011, 2012 )
- 2 × Super Bowl champion (XLII, XLVI )
- 2 × Super Bowl MVP (XLII, XLVI )
Elisha Nelson " Eli " Manning ( born January 3, 1981 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American professional American football player at the position of quarterback. He plays for the New York Giants in the National Football League ( NFL), with whom he twice won the Super Bowl ( Super Bowl XLII and Super Bowl XLVI ) and was elected both times to the Super Bowl MVP. Manning is the son of Archie Manning and younger brother of Peyton Manning.
College
Eli Manning played college football for the Ole Miss Rebels and led them into his senior year in 2003 to a 31:28 victory in the Cotton Bowl, where he was elected to the offensive MVP and won the Maxwell Award.
NFL
As part of the NFL Drafts 2004, he was selected as the first players from the San Diego Chargers. In exchange for Philip Rivers (who was drafted as the fourth player from the Giants ), the draft law in the third round this year, as well as in the first and fifth round in the following year, he was delivered to the New York Giants. The Chargers selected with these additional draft kicker Nate Kaeding rights, linebacker Shawne Merriman and offensive tackle Roman from the top (in exchange with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers ).
For the Giants, the position of quarterback was busy at the time with Kurt Warner, so Manning at the beginning hardly received periods of use. In the second half of the 2004 season finally gave head coach Tom Coughlin his rookie confidence, after which they lost six of their next seven games and missed the play-offs. Subsequently, however, the trust placed in Manning paid off: In the 2005 season, Manning led his team with eleven victories in five defeats first time since 2002 in the play-offs, failed there but also in the first round as in the following year.
In the 2007 season, Manning and the Giants qualified as a wild card team for the play- offs and went after victories against the favored Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers in the Super Bowl. In the Super Bowl on February 3, 2008 against the previously undefeated New England Patriots, the Giants were 2:42 minutes to play back with 10:14 and needed 84 yards for a touchdown. Believed to be the game-winning third attempt for five yards to their own 44 -yard line Manning escaped 75 seconds left in the game several blind trials and found his wide receiver David Tyree with a 32- yard pass, to this spectacular secured with the help of his helmet. The media then spoke of perhaps the greatest play in the history of the Super Bowl. With even 58 seconds on the clock and the now much closer to the end zone Patriots Manning threw four plays later the decisive touchdown pass to Plaxico Burress, and he won with the Giants Super Bowl XLII and was elected to the Super Bowl MVP.
2009 Manning signed with the New York Giants a new, endowed with 100 million U.S. dollars six-year contract. In the seasons 2009 and 2010, the first time he threw passes for more than 4,000 yards space gain, missed with his team, however, the play-offs.
In the 2011 season, Manning presented with passes for 4,933 yards on a new Career. However, to qualify for the play-offs at the last minute managed by victories at the last two matchdays of the Regular Season. As an outsider ran Manning and the Giants then to top form, and went after victories against the Atlanta Falcons, Green Bay Packers and San Francisco 49ers back in the Super Bowl a. Here, Manning developed the nickname " Comeback Kid " and " Magic Manning ", as it repeats the last quarter decided the game in favor of his team. In Super Bowl XLVI, he met again on February 5, 2012, Tom Brady and the New England Patriots. As four years earlier with his team in the last quarter he ran it behind a residue. With still 3:46 minutes on the clock, the Giants came with the score at 15:17 on the own 12 -yard line the ball and moved as a result of a 38 - yard - pass from Manning to Mario Manningham in the shortest possible time to the middle line in front. One minute left in the game Manning had his team brought down to six yards to the end zone of the Patriots. The long drive was crowned by the subsequent touchdown by Ahmad Bradshaw to 21:17 victory. Then Manning won for the second time the Super Bowl and the Super Bowl MVP award.
This second victory Manning belongs to the circle of eleven quarterbacks who could repeatedly win the Super Bowl. In addition, he is next to Bart Starr, Terry Bradshaw, Joe Montana and Tom Brady only the fifth player who was repeatedly voted the Super Bowl MVP.
Private
Eli Manning is married and has one daughter. He is the son of the former quarterback of the New Orleans Saints, Archie Manning, and younger brother of quarterback Peyton Manning. Every summer he runs with his father and his brothers Peyton and Cooper Manning Passing Academy. Its goal is to improve the offense capabilities of quarterbacks, wide receivers, tight ends and running backs.