Word: peyton
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...Mannings, the games began in the front yard of the family home in the ornate Garden District of New Orleans. Cooper and Peyton relegated little Eli to the ignoble role of center, the guy who snaps the ball to the glory-hogging quarterback. "Every once in a while they'd throw a pass to me," says Eli in the barely detectable Delta drawl he shares with Peyton. "If I dropped it, I wouldn't get the ball the rest...
...Peyton nonetheless took up football--and everything else--with the same fervor he now displays at the line of scrimmage, where, before the snap, he shouts instructions at everyone but the cheerleaders. Cooper remembers the third grade, when Peyton's basketball coach told him to foul an opponent to stop the clock. Peyton kicked the kid in the gut. Archie recalls another youth hoops game, when Peyton told his coach, "The reason we lost this game tonight is because you don't know what you're doing." Then there was the time he dressed in a red ruffled shirt...
...Colts' high-octane offense is now Peyton's place. "He's not opposed to jumping on somebody's butt," notes Archie. Peyton cajoles linemen constantly to pick up their blocking assignments. After a receiver drops a pass, he often looks as if someone dropped an anvil on his toes. "Guys on offense know if they want the ball, they've got to run their routes crisp all the time, and they've got to be where he expects them to be," says Colts head coach Tony Dungy of his quarterback. "So Peyton gives them a little bit of carrot...
...sumé to rule the Giants with such an iron fist. While he has shown a flair for late-game heroics, he is not yet Joe Montana. He has struggled with his accuracy, throwing four interceptions in a loss to the Minnesota Vikings. Plus, his personality is just not Peyton's. Eli attributes his reticence at least partly to birth order. "Around dinner, I was just kind of watching and letting them do the talking," says Eli of his older brothers. "Don't speak until spoken...
...never devoured football like Peyton. Before college, Eli couldn't name all the teams in the Southeastern Conference, sacrilege for a Louisiana schoolboy. He even has trouble remembering the start times of his games. In high school, about 90 minutes before a big game, he called his mother Olivia at home. She thought something was wrong. He just wanted her to tape Seinfeld. Eli is also more culturally ambitious than the average NFL quarterback with a $20 million signing bonus. He's a budding oenophile and likes to scout antiques, which could make him the only NFL quarterback adept...