ATLANTA – Notice anything missing from Super Bowl LIII?
Besides points and the Rams offense and a fresh-faced victor and decent commercials, that is.
No, there was something that had been part of just about every one of the past dozen Super Bowls but was conspicuously absent from this one, and you probably didn’t even realize it.
Eli Manning.
The Giants quarterback was in town late in the week but barely made a peep and never really registered on any Super Bowl radars. He’s had a public role in the big game just about every year since Super Bowl XLI when he played the role of supportive little brother to Peyton, right up to last year when he stole the show by lifting Odell Beckham Jr.