Oh, Brother!!

A Manning has won another Super Bowl. Sure, he may not be the Manning we've all come to know & love but just the same we're loving him now. And for good reason: little brother Eli & the New York Giants pulled off one of the more monumental upsets in Super Bowl history when they knocked off Tom Brady & his New England Patriots 17-14 last night.

Eli may not get all the accolades which Peyton has received over the years but let's face it: his latest accomplishment has helped keep the family name strong & very much alive. And after all the bruises & slams that Eli was an underachiever, not on the same page as his older bro, it definitely feels good to be a Manning right now; to be honest, it really does. Not only have the Manning brothers won two straight Super Bowls (the Colts & the Giants, respectively) but they have also left a mark in NFL history which Tom Brady couldn't touch much less grab a hold of last night, try as he might.

Eli knew the Giants could stack up nicely against the Pats (as the last regular season game readily confirmed); they could compete against the so-called big dogs & did for the second go-round. I bet $1.50 that he acquired a few pointers from Peyton along the way in hopes on how to make the Patriot defense look plenty vulnerable (& BTW, they were). Then again, Eli was Eli last night, keeping a cool head in a very heated game & not folding his tent when the chips were down. Against Dallas & Green Bay, he did the exact same thing, just in a different light.

But now the Pats haters can finally rejoice now that someone actually unseated the Patriots from the ranks of the undefeated in one of the best Super Bowls ever played. The New York defense played stubbornly for the whole game, true, but Eli (with the aid of two lesser-knowns in Messrs. Boss & Tyree) helped New Yawk accomplish the unthinkable or should I say the impossible in the eyes of Pats fans everywhere: win a Super Bowl!!

Somewhere, Peyton is saying that he's absolutely proud to be a Manning; the same could be said of his little brother as well.