Pro-Bowl quarterback Derek Carr revealed on ESPN’s “ManningCast” Monday night that his first Pro Bowl came with a painful lesson: never hand your hotel room number to Eli Manning.
Appearing as a guest on ESPN’s “ManningCast” of Monday Night Football’s game between the Cowboys and Raiders, Carr said he learned a hard lesson about trusting the Giants legend.
“He tried to pull some number on me at my first Pro Bowl, Eli did,” Carr said in a clip shared on X/Twitter.
Manning had asked for Carr’s hotel room number, and Carr—thinking the veteran quarterback was extending a friendly hand—gave it to him without hesitation. The next morning, Carr discovered a stack of unexpected charges on his bill.
As Manning later told it, the “special quarterback meeting” he joked they were supposed to have in Carr’s room never happened. Instead, the NFC offensive linemen took full advantage of Carr’s open tab, happily charging their drinks to the rookie quarterback’s bill.
Peyton Manning couldn’t help but jump in, mock-scolding his little brother for breaking the unwritten brotherhood of the position.
“I can’t believe you did that to a fellow quarterback,” he said. “That’s made for a punter or a kicker. Quarterbacks are supposed to stick together.”
Carr agreed, still half-amused and half-incredulous.
Eli, though, insisted it came from a place of affection. Carr’s brother, David, had been Eli’s teammate for years, and Eli said he always saw Derek as something like a kid brother.
“I never had a little brother,” he said. “So when Derek showed up at the Pro Bowl, I’m like, ‘Yeah, I gotta get this guy.’”
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