The Real Story Behind One Of The Biggest Lies In NFL Draft History (Everyone Misses This)

Everyone calls it "pulling an Eli Manning" — the move where an NFL prospect forces his way to a better draft spot.
But Eli wasn't the one who took the heat for it.
His dad was.
This is the story of Archie Manning — the man who raised two Super Bowl champions in Peyton and Eli, who stepped in front of every media bullet aimed at his sons, and who quietly carried a grief that most fans never knew about.
One generation back in the Manning bloodline, there's a tragedy that explains everything: why Archie hugged his boys every day, why he told them he loved them every time he hung up the phone, why he was willing to take the hits so they wouldn't have to.
Football royalty doesn't happen by accident. It gets built. Usually by a man who decided, long before he ever had kids, what kind of father he was going to be.
Peyton and Eli got the rings. Archie earned the crown.

Much of the Manning family story in this video comes from Lars Anderson's book, "The Mannings: The Fall and Rise of a Football Family" — a New York Times bestseller and one of the best sports family biographies ever written.
Amazon: amazon.com/Mannings-Fall-Rise-Football-Family/dp/1101883820
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