In this week’s New York Magazine, they list 50 reasons to love New York in 2008. Among them is Eli Manning.

Reason #28 : Because Eli is Now The Manning.

Football today is not about rah-rah speeches in the locker room. These are grown men, professionals, millionaires. What defines a great quarterback these days is an inner calm, a Zen peace, an even keel. A great quarterback needs to reassure his team that all will be okay. Eli’s slightly zapped, off-kilter, loopy, four-steps-removed-from-whatever’s-happening nature served him well.

We are a city of transplants who fancy ourselves the best and brightest. Eli Manning is not from here, but now he belongs.