Eli Manning gave a heartfelt congratulations to Tom Brady on a legendary profession, however couldn’t assist however sneak in a barb on the finish.
“Hey Tom, simply wish to congratulate on an unbelievable NFL profession,” Manning stated in a video Tuesday posted to his Twitter account. “22 years, seven Tremendous Bowls, a number of MVPs — actually, nobody did it higher than you throughout your time. It was an honor simply to observe you compete, watch you play, and to do it at such a excessive stage for therefore lengthy. In your twenty second yr, you had been taking part in pretty much as good as you ever had been.
“I watched you win a Tremendous Bowl after I was in faculty. I received to observe you win just a few after I was within the NFL, and I noticed you win one after I was retired. That’s a reasonably spectacular profession proper there.”
Manning, who himself retired in 2020, clearly needed to get in a deadpan joke on the conclusion of the clip.
“Good luck in retirement, congratulations on an unbelievable profession, and I admire your generosity in a minimum of sharing just a few of these Tremendous Bowls with me,” Manning stated.
Manning was referring to the 2 Tremendous Bowls by which his Giants knocked off Brady’s Patriots. The primary got here through the 2007-08 season, when New England went on a spectacular undefeated run, adopted by a second championship matchup on the finish of the 2011-12.
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