It's hard to imagine Eli Manning wearing any other jersey but a New York Giants one.
But he almost did exactly that before he was traded by the then-San Diego Chargers to the Giants, and that jersey wasn't a Chargers one.
In an interview on "Bussin With The Boys" with Taylor Lewan and Will Compton, Manning revealed the Chargers were going to trade him to the Cleveland Browns, another place he didn't want to end up.
Thankfully, the Giants stepped up and traded for Manning and the rest, as they say, is history.
When it comes to his decision to not want to play for the Chargers, Manning admitted he was the one behind that and his father, Archie was against it.
“My parents really weren’t supportive. My dad didn’t like the idea,” Manning admitted “Now, he came to my defense and like supported me after everything was going down, but . . . he didn’t like that. And afterwards he took the brunt of a lot of the criticism because he came to my defense and people were saying, ‘Oh, you played in New Orleans all those years you didn’t win, so you’re trying to dictate like where your son’s going.’ And and he just bit his tongue and said, ‘Hey, this is what Eli wants to do and I support him’ and he did some media to try to save me from doing all the media and taking the hits.”
Manning said his reason for not wanting to go to the Chargers had to do with the fact he believed the team wasn't "the most committed team to winning at the time."
Manning pointed to friction between then-head coach Marty Schottenheimer and the front office and ownership as another concern.
Safe to say, it all worked out for Manning, who avoided disaster in not ending up in Cleveland.
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