Arch Manning says Peyton and Eli gave him wedgies and bullied him to make him tougher

Texas Longhorns backmost Arch Manning has the privilege of coming from 1 of the astir respected families successful football, but helium has besides had to wage his dues on the way. 

The 19-year-old phenom, who is acceptable to yet instrumentality implicit arsenic a starter successful the 2025 season, said helium has been bullied by his celebrated uncles, Peyton and Eli, and they person adjacent fixed him wedgies. 

"Back successful the day, Eli and Peyton utilized to benignant of bully me, truthful it was good, springiness wedgies and worldly similar that," Arch said during an interrogation with ESPN connected Thursday. "You conscionable gotta marque the younger feline tough. My member and I, we went done it a small bit, it was good." 

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As the nephew of Peyton and Eli, and the lad of their member Cooper, Arch is expected to transportation connected the famed Manning mantle successful the NFL. With that besides comes the load of carrying the Manning household mantle of sibling bullying, including wedgies.

Peyton shared a communicative of however Eli gave him a wedgie portion connected a play trip, during a conception connected ESPN's "Manningcast" in December 2022. 

"I was trying to instrumentality a nap, and I was successful a country bed, and helium came up down me, helium benignant of had maine leveraged into the wall, and helium gave maine a wedgie, helium astir went atomic with it," Peyton said. 

Eli insisted, "it was atomic." An atomic wedgie is classified arsenic 1 successful which a person's underwear is pulled supra the victim's caput oregon higher. 

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"I was astir to beryllium asleep, I was truthful angry, basically, due to the fact that the nap was interrupted, but the atomic wedgie was similar an added bonus," Peyton continued. "He was truthful proud, we astir threw down, but I was successful symptom and I couldn't combat to well." 

Eli added that helium ripped Peyton's favourite underwear successful the incident. 

Meanwhile, Eli has, connected aggregate occasions, described the harsh attraction Peyton instilled connected him erstwhile the 2 brothers were increasing up successful Louisiana. 

Prior to playing successful Super Bowl XLVI successful aboriginal 2012, Eli shared the communicative of however Peyton would pin him to the level and springiness him aggravated shot trivia challenges. 

"I astir apt person rather a fewer of them, but to bounds it to 1 -- his astir fashionable move, helium would pin maine down and instrumentality his knuckles and sound connected my thorax and marque maine sanction the 12 schools successful the SEC (Southeastern Conference). I didn't cognize them each astatine the time, but I rapidly learned them. It was a large learning technique. I don't suggest anyone other effort it out, but it decidedly made maine larn the schools of the SEC," Eli told reporters. 

"Once I figured those out, helium moved on. There were 28 teams successful the NFL astatine that point, truthful each teams successful the NFL. I had to get my studying connected for that. Then erstwhile I figured that retired – the 1 I ne'er got was the 10 brands of cigarettes. When helium truly wanted to torture maine and knew I had nary changeable of ever getting it, that's erstwhile I conscionable started screaming for my ma oregon dada to travel prevention me, oregon possibly Cooper. That was his go-to move."

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