[WinOne4TheGipper]

Will people please leave Eli Manning alone? I'm sick of it. He looked into San Diego. He asked league sources. He decided he didn't want to spend 10 years on a team that wasn't motivated to win, being crushed by a 250 pound line backer on every play. You wouldn't either.

[L.N. Smithee]

Will people please leave Eli Manning alone? I'm sick of it. He looked into San Diego. He asked league sources. He decided he didn't want to spend 10 years on a team that wasn't motivated to win, being crushed by a 250 pound line backer on every play. You wouldn't either.

I don't have as much a problem with Manning as I do Winslow, but if he didn't want to spend "10 years" with the Chargers, let him sign a one or two year contract, and see if they can't shore up the O-line. Oh, and one more thing: No one wants to be crushed by a 250 lb. -- unless they are being paid more in one season then their father earned for several. Like Super Chicken said to his hapless sidekick Fred, "You knew the job was dangerous when you took it."

I don't think it is fair to suggest that the Chargers are the equivalent of the Archie-era Saints. The Chargers have been up and down over the years, but they have several Hall of Famers (Alworth, Fouts, Winslow Sr., someday Seau), AFC championship game losses, and one Super Bowl appearance to their credit. Those N.O. teams were bottom-feeders year after year, and never experienced a lick of glory until their TWENTIETH season, finishing above .500 for the first time and nearly winning the NFC West. Can Archie blame all that on everyone but him? Get real.

[dmz]

Eli Manning is just another whiny baby. I'll not leave him alone. I'll root against him from now until the day he retires. He's never taken a snap at the NFL level, but he's already too good for one of the teams?

It took me damn near until John Elway retired before I didn't want to see him get the Joe Theisman treatment.

Seems that Eli is the opposite kind of person from the one you celebrate in your FR handle, doncha think? Don't think the Gipper would act that way, do you? No selflessness in Eli at all. He's all about himself.

Rant off.