Is Eli Manning now for real?

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Almost always, almost always the quarterback in the Super Bowl is a completed product, an excellent quarterback, or maybe, at the least, an aging veteran that knows all the tricks.

So what do we make of Eli Manning?

Some players’ careers build to and peak in the Super Bowl. For Manning, that showcase game might have been the starting point. In some weird way, he earned the crown jewel of his profession as the Super Bowl MVP before fully convincing most of the football world he could take a team that far.
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Did you know that this is Eli’s first championship?

“It was a huge deal,” Manning says during the lunch break at the Giants’ training camp in Albany. “You always hope to win a championship in anything you do. I’ve been playing sports a long time, and through high school and college I never won a championship. Never won a state championship, never won an SEC championship, never won a national championship.

Maybe there is something in his mental makeup that has Eli playing on the big stage. Amani Toomer says he never saw Eli crack under pressure, never hang his head.

Does not matter what we think. Eli won a Super Bowl and he just keeps getting better.

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