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Article: `Easy' Eli Manning begins to discover who he is.
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- Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT)
- Article date:
- May 5, 2004
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Byline: John Altavilla
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The third and youngest son of Archie and Olivia Manning _ the college and NFL icon and his homecoming queen _ Eli is as angular and athletically imposing as his brothers, Cooper, the former Ole Miss wide receiver, and Peyton, the Colts' Pro Bowl quarterback.
It is in many ways football's first family, so impressive that Ole Miss chancellor Robert Khayat once described them as "The DiMaggios of the NFL."
But Eli Manning, the first pick of the NFL draft and focal point of the Giants' future, refuses to take himself or his sport so seriously that it totally ...