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Bloggers Not Buying New Cool Eli

by Anthony De Rosa on August 20th, 2008 at 11:30 am

Apparently a Super Bowl championship wasn’t enough to convince some in the blogosphere that Eli Manning is the next rock star of the NFL. His cool is still under question by the likes of The Hater Nation who write:

Eli Messiah has clearly entered the “Ronald Miller post-break up with Cindy Mancini” phase of his career. Remember when Ronnie was walking around school in leather jackets, dress shirts with no sleeves, gelled hair and designer sunglasses? That is how ridiculous the Messiah looked on the sidelines last night, stroking his prepubescent beard while smacking his gum.

Sorry Eli, nobody is buying it.

Much like the inner dork still lurked in Ronald Miller’s soul, there is no way that you can escape your inner goofiness.

Money can’t buy you love, and a Super Bowl ring seemingly can’t buy you the respect of Hugging Harold Reynolds either, who had this to say about Eli’s recent status as magazine coverboy:

Put all the fancy 80′s suits on him you want. He’s still a stumbling, bumbling hick, who will never be very good, will forever have his hand held by daddy, will forever be in his brother’s shadow and will forever be beholden to his defense for his ring. It makes for a cute trick or treat costume though.

Ouch.

Anyway, as far as I’m concerned, he could be Wormser from Revenge of The Nerds out there. Just keep throwing those touchdowns and winning those rings Eli. Jealousy is a hell of a thing.
  • NYsportsGUY

    Honestly, Living in Manhattan for the last 3 years and being heavily involved in the sports scene here, Not one Giants fan that I know of was jealous that the Jets got Favre.

    In fact, most Giants fans were THRILLED that they got him because now, instead of watching the Jets putrid offense attempt to put together first downs before/after the Giants play their game, they can now watch a significantly better/entertaining Jets team.

    If you think that Eli should be thankful to his defense for winning the super bowl, then you might as well say that for the 5 of the last 6 Super Bowl teams.

    Here are the last 6 SB winners and whether or not the D or O was the reason why they navigated through the playoffs and won the Sb

    Raven – D won
    Pats – I’ll give you O for 2 of the 3 (Ty Law)
    Tampa – D won
    Pitt – D Won
    Colts- D Won, remember how bad Peyton was and how good Sanders was during that run?
    Giants – D Won

    I guess Peyton and Roth are also beholden to their D too

    I agree with you that Eli is a huge dork though, I like making fun of him myself.

  • dbd2150

    Hey, you know what brings that suit together? The SUPER BOWL Ring!!