Peyton Manning had a lucrative offer to join the ‘Monday Night Football' booth, but he turned it down because of one reason, his brother Eli Manning. According to two sources close to Yahoo Sports, Manning turned down the Monday night football gig because he didn't want to have to criticize Eli.
The New York Giants and Eli will be on Monday Night Football twice this upcoming season and Manning knew there might be times where he would have to be critical.
According to the sources if Manning does decide to do Monday Night Football it will be later down the road after Manning and some of his other former teammates retire.
“If he ever decides [Monday Night Football] is something he wants to do, it’s going to be after Eli has finished his career and he gets a little bit further from his era of playing and maybe some of his teammates have moved on, too,” one source said. “It would have been a tough position for him this season, with the Giants [and Broncos] being on the schedule. There is a lot of loyalty there for him and I don’t think he’d ever want to be in a position where he’d be conflicted about his analysis. It just wouldn’t have been a comfortable situation this year.”
Manning would have been a great asset to the Monday Night Football booth but he would have to be neutral and sometimes that would include criticizing his younger brother if it came up. Maybe down the road Manning will be the voice of Monday Night Football but it just wasn't in the cards right now.
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