{"id":15125,"date":"2016-02-09T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=15125"},"modified":"2016-02-09T09:00:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T15:00:22","slug":"peyton-graciously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/09\/peyton-graciously\/","title":{"rendered":"Peyton, Graciously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this when it happened, and I chortled so much my turkey-wattle neck swayed from side to side:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/vine.co\/v\/i1vanwQJxl6\/embed\/simple\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.vine.co\/static\/scripts\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I knew what it meant: That young man was unhappy because his brother would continue to overshadow him.<\/p>\n<p>Peyton Manning was gracious enough to try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/news\/local\/Peyton-Manning-Explains-Elis-Reaction-368068721.html\" target=\"_blank\">to cover for his little brother<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cEli\u2019s just like me. Eli is analyzing the game. He\u2019s thinking about whether we were going to go for two. Whether it was going to be reviewed,\u201d Manning told CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEli\u2019s kinda like me,\u201d Manning continued. \u201cHe wasn\u2019t gonna to relax until that final second ticked off. I\u2019ve had a great chance to celebrate with Eli. He\u2019s very happy and proud of me just like I\u2019ve always been of him.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I doubt that.<\/p>\n<p>To be frank, I&#8217;ve not been an Eli Manning fan since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/eye-on-football\/24337716\/eli-manning-on-why-he-didnt-want-to-play-for-chargers-i-forgot-i-think\" target=\"_blank\">he refused to play in San Diego<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how he looked then:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/eli.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t that look familiar?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always torqued me a bit that the entitled young man has more Super Bowl rings than Aaron Rodgers or Brett Favre; I&#8217;m pleased to see he has only as many as his older brother now.  And that&#8217;s only until Peyton gets one or more as a coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this when it happened, and I chortled so much my turkey-wattle neck swayed from side to side: I knew what it meant: That young man was unhappy because his brother would continue to overshadow him. Peyton Manning was gracious enough to try to cover for his little brother: \u201cEli\u2019s just like me. Eli [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15126,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15125\/revisions\/15126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}