Eli Manning, who completed 19 of 34 passes for 255 yards and two TDs against New England joined his older brother, Peyton Manning who was also named the Super Bowl MVP last year after the Colts beat the Bears.
A new Cadillac Escalade, a champion ring, a Super Bowl MVP trophy and more than 97.5 million viewers of his performance…could someone ask for more than?
With the biggest game of his life still only hours behind him, Giants quarterback Eli Manning said:
“I never doubted myself, I never lost confidence, as a quarterback I think that’s the most important thing, you can never lose confidence in yourself”.
“When you’re not playing well and you’re losing games, they’re looking to everything you do and dissect it, my demeanor and how I am on the sidelines and my personality,” Eli Manning said. “But I’m very comfortable in my own skin, you know, I am the way I am and I wasn’t going to change.”
“The thing that always struck me about the New York Giants when I was an assistant coach was the way in which, for example, George Young and Bill Parcells approached the peaks and the valleys, they didn’t want any of those. And that’s one of the great characteristics I think Eli has. He knows how to handle praise and he knows what comes with the criticism as well. And I think that serves him very, very well,” said Coughlin.
A play that only someone with a tremendous sense of poise could complete was when Eli Manning somehow escaped two Patriots defenders who had their hands all over him and launched a 32-yard pass to David Tyree for a first down, while the clock winding down and the Giants‘ Super Bowl dreams perilously close to slipping from their fingertips.Manning described the play in typical understated style, “People were kinda asking me how did I get out of that jam I was in. I just said I really don’t know, they never pulled me down. I felt the pull they made, but I never felt any anybody pull me to the ground and I stayed alive and I saw David in the middle of the field and gave him a shot to make the catch.”
