Eli Manning and Peyton Manning are enjoying their respective retirements. And since both are icons to varying degrees, they’ve lived out a portion of those post-football careers in the public eye.
Peyton continued to be a prolific presence in advertising, hosted a revival of College Bowl, and created his own documentary series through his own shop, Omaha Productions. Eli showed up in some ads of his own, made some Penn State walk-ons look bad as the world’s ugliest junior college transfer and kept up his charity work.
But their best-known post-football work is a joint project: the Manningcast. That simulcast is Monday Night Football’s answer to director’s commentary on DVDs, only with different directors who are easily distracted and a bunch of celebrity guests who may or may not have anything interesting to say about the game itself. It’s not a presentation that takes itself seriously.
And Eli was quick to point that out after Peyton won a Sports Emmy for “Outstanding Personality/Event Analyst.”
I did not know you could win an Emmy for just telling fans when coaches should call timeout. https://t.co/cb6rSiXHqj
— Eli Manning (@EliManning) May 23, 2023
I did not know you could win an Emmy for just telling fans when coaches should call timeout.
Wonderful. Manning beat out Cris Collinsworth, Bill Rafferty, Gary Danielson and John Smoltz for the award, while Eli was left un-nominated. That gives Peyton the upper hand for any comeback — though yeah, pretty sweet burn, guy.
