Giants 2-time Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning fails to land Hall of Fame nod in first year eligible 

Eli Manning’s 2 Super Bowl runs weren’t capable to get him into the Pro Football Hall of Fame connected the archetypal try.

The 2025 Canton people includes Minnesota Vikings antiaircraft extremity Jared Allen, Green Bay Packers wide receiver Sterling Sharpe, cornerback Eric Allen and San Diego Chargers choky extremity Antonio Gates

But the Giants’ backmost volition request to hold astatine slightest 1 much year, if not more, to don a golden jacket. Because the voters person spoken: this is nary definite thing.

Manning, 44, a two-time Super Bowl champion and MVP, evidently has a lawsuit based connected his postseason heroics and historical spot successful immoderate of the NFL’s biggest moments.

He and the Giants knocked disconnected the undefeated New England Patriots, 17-14, successful Super Bowl XLII to headdress the 2007 NFL season. Manning’s final-drive completion to David Tyree for his celebrated helmet drawback inactive stands arsenic the astir singular play successful Super Bowl history.

Then Manning and the Giants bushed Tom Brady and the Patriots again, 21-17, successful Super Bowl XLVI to adjacent the 2011 NFL play with different title ring.

It undercut Manning’s Hall of Fame case, however, that helium ne'er won different playoff crippled extracurricular of those 2 seasons and lone posted a .500 vocation regular play grounds astatine 117-117-0.

He finished with 57,023 passing yards, 366 touchdown passes and 244 interceptions. He reached the postseason six times successful 16 years. And helium lone won successful the playoffs connected those 2 magical runs.

Those conflicting realities astir Manning’s vocation person made his lawsuit a hotly-debated and arguable 1 for years, from the section bars of New York City, New Jersey and Long Island to the authoritative voting process that yet decides who gets into Canton.

Manning is revered for his clutch cistron and show nether unit successful immoderate of the biggest moments of those runs. Tom Coughlin’s New York defense, though, was the backbone of those title chases.

They held Bill Belichick’s Patriots, who were averaging 36.8 points per crippled during their undefeated 2007 season, to 14 points to assistance the Lombardi Trophy that year.

Not that shot isn’t a squad game. When judging Manning’s archetypal effort to suffice for Canton, however, the Hall of Fame voters did not presumption him arsenic worthy of an evident nod.