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For the 3rd consecutive year, the Manning brothers volition instrumentality arsenic caput coaches and spell head-to-head successful an action-packed Pro Bowl weekend, featuring prima violative and antiaircraft players from the AFC and NFC.
Peyton Manning, two-time Super Bowl champion and arguably 1 of the top quarterbacks of each time, volition manager the AFC. Eli Manning, two-time Super Bowl champion who infamously bushed Tom Brady to triumph some games, volition manager the 2025 Pro Bowl’s NFC team.
"Peyton benignant of keeps trying to bargain my strategies," Eli told Fox News Digital. "He keeps trying to bargain my playbook."
Last year, Eli’s NFC squad triumphed against Peyton’s AFC roundup successful a last 64-59.
In 2023, Eli bushed Peyton 35-33.
"It's been a batch of amusive coaching the Pro Bowl these past 2 years," Eli said. "Especially beating Peyton these past 2 years."
The sibling rivalry is intelligibly live and good successful the Manning family, arsenic Eli pointed the digit astatine Peyton for lacking the indispensable skills to bushed him, particularly with respect to the game's skills challenges.
"He didn't deliberation about, and helium didn't truly interest about, the accomplishment challenges past year," Eli told Fox News Digital. "He was each disquieted astir the playbook and the X’s and O’s connected the tract wherever we conscionable dominated him successful the skills.
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"Peyton’s not bully astatine dodgeball. Peyton’s not bully astatine ping pong. He’s not bully astatine pool," Eli said. "All helium did was play shot increasing up, truthful helium ne'er learned immoderate different skill. He didn’t cognize however to manager the players successful immoderate of those skills."
Eli touted his superior past of playing tug-of-war arsenic 1 of his galore advantages against his brother.
"I astir went pro successful tug-of-war years ago," Eli said.
The youngest Manning member added that Peyton’s mentation includes studying and consulting with experts for the skills challenges, a relay contention and dodgeball, among others.
"I’ve conscionable got to truly trust connected my instincts and, successful my experience, playing emblem football," Eli said of his ain strategy.
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Above each else, Eli said helium is excited to get successful Orlando, Florida, and observe a play of palmy football.
"That's what this is each about," helium said. "All of these guys had unbelievable seasons."
Travis Kelce, Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, Myles Garrett, Cameron Heyward and Joe Thuney are among the AFC team’s headliners who earned their spot connected the roster.
Jared Goff, Kyle Juszczyk, George Kittle, Lane Johnson, Nick Bosa and Justin Jefferson are among the NFC athletes acceptable to present a riveting flag-football show connected Sunday, Feb. 2, astatine Camping World Stadium in Orlando.
"I ticker these guys each Sunday competing connected the AFC and NFC side," Eli said. "To get to cognize them a bit, to get to bent retired with them and spot their personalities disconnected the tract is what I look guardant to the most."
In concern with Knob Creek, Eli launched a azygous tube bourbon, Eli Manning’s 2025 Bold Pick, conscionable successful clip for the Pro Bowl and Super Bowl LIX.
"I got to spell down to Kentucky and manus prime this bourbon," Eli told Fox News Digital.
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