The latest on Peyton Manning’s reasons to not work Monday Night Football telecasts is rumored to be that he didn’t want to have to analyze his brother, Eli – who is still the starting quarterback of the New York Giants – on the air.
In a recent article on Yahoo! Sports from veteran NFL columnist Charles Robinson, it was revealed why the elder Manning passed on ESPN’s offer to be their new face of the telecast.
“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.