This is a red cup of bourbon and a plate of Abner's chicken shy of being the most Ole Miss-ish photo ever taken. [From an SI gallery of rare photos of Eli Manning.]
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Screw Peyton...
…for not attending Ole Miss.
by Rebsmmm on Jan 25, 2012 10:30 AM EST via mobile reply actions
well
Im gonna say it worked out pretty well for him
by ManningExpress on Jan 25, 2012 10:35 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
We were on probation at the time.
I don’t blame him.
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by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Jan 25, 2012 10:37 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Can't blame him either.
Plus Cooper’s spinal problems were diagnosed then and he couldn’t play; Peyton had always said he couldn’t imagine being a Rebel without his brother there with him.
Dude, I like Katy Perry and watch "Glee." I’m pretty much a lost fucking cause.
by Queen Hoka-Hotty-Toddy on Jan 25, 2012 10:39 AM EST up reply actions
I have heard this
yet I still don’t see why this would prevent him from going to UM. Did his bro’s spinal issues force him to UT?
by WrigleyvilleReb on Jan 25, 2012 5:00 PM EST up reply actions
She (and they) mean that Peyton couldn't come to Ole Miss and play, while Cooper sat on the sidelines.
Meaning that Peyton would only be comfortable playing some where OTHER than OM, because Cooper couldn’t play WITH him at the same time, while they were at OM.
Which is valid. If they had talked about playing together at OM their whole lives, and one of them suddenly couldn’t, Payton would feel like he was rubbing it in Coopers face by playing there when Cooper could not.
I have absolutely no personal knowledge of any of this...
but I think it had more to do with Peyton wanting to make his own way in life. Maybe if Cooper had been healthy he would have come here, but I think Cooper being hurt kind of opened the door to other schools.
"They score so fast it messes you up" - Houston Nutt
Still doesn't sound right
I agree with Crootin’. Cooper getting hurt sounds more like an excuse to go to the school he really liked.
by WrigleyvilleReb on Jan 26, 2012 5:23 PM EST up reply actions
wow
Cooper and Eli look just alike
by ManningExpress on Jan 25, 2012 10:34 AM EST via mobile reply actions
Yep,
That’s about a year before Cooper and I were in that split journalism class with Ralph Braseth (376/378).
Dude, I like Katy Perry and watch "Glee." I’m pretty much a lost fucking cause.
by Queen Hoka-Hotty-Toddy on Jan 25, 2012 10:37 AM EST reply actions
AW MAN!
I remember Ralph! Worked with him at the SMC and he taught my Jour 301 class. He is one cool dude.
by Marty McReb on Jan 26, 2012 11:38 AM EST up reply actions
Mmmmm....Abner's.
And bourbo I mean, uh, Coke. Yeah. A good red cup of ice-cold Coca-Cola.
/locks cooler lid as UPD walks by
My sisters went to Ole Miss with Archie & Olivia...
…and they were friends. No…I never met them because I was too young to get wagged all over campus bu them when I visited, but Carolyn said they were just the best folks ever.
The best part about it…they were GENUINELY nice. Not nice to keep from messing up the marketing like superstars are today.
You know why they call it a French Horn? Because you have to stick your tongue in the mouthpiece.
my momz was sorority sisters with olivia
said she always kept a stack of autographed archie photos in her car
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the manning family
is something to be proud of. I don’t know of another SEC school that has any family like this – they are the First Family of Football – even if we did lose Peyton to TN. Their continued success in the pros, Archie on CBS and with the National Football Foundation – keeps Ole Miss in the media at a time when we need all the positive press we can get. Even here down in Bama country, folks noticed the Ole Miss was well represented in the NFL championship games. And tho I am pulling for Eli and the Giants, an Ole Miss alum wins the Super Bowl regardless ( see the outstanding performances by Law Firm at New England).
by GulfCoastRebelle on Jan 26, 2012 2:00 AM EST up reply actions
I was in City Grocery
for a job interview once (I just wanted the free meal – the job would have sucked). Peyton and Eli and some other guy were two tables over. It took everything I had to leave them alone, but I did. In fact, I didn’t see anyone bother them at all while I was in there.
Peyton gave me a nod when I passed by on the way out, though. I’m pretty sure that means we’re best friends.
Eli looks like my son Tim in that picture.
I need to give that boy a football.
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by SkylarkThibedeau on Jan 25, 2012 1:36 PM EST reply actions
Uuuuhhhhhh, am I the only one who sees a huge, glaring problem with this picture?
Where’sWalker’d
by OxpatchReb on Jan 25, 2012 5:00 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
Just think about......
what if OM would have been able to have benefited by 12 years of Manning’s instead of just 4. Where could the program have gone with the success that Cooper and Peyton would have brought. to the program. Do you think Eli wins the SEC his senior year after 10 years of great recruiting and the benefit of being surrounded with a more talented team?
No doubt? Oh, the luck of the Rebel faithful. We are left on the outside, staring in once again to what might have been.
Lord it’s hard to be a Rebel, that is if you want to win football games.
Cute
You forgot about the major NCAA sanctions that were handed to us during that period of time. No bowl games. No televised games. 1/2 of our scholarships cut. Coaching uncertainty (if you’ve forgotten our coach for the 1994 season was Interim Head Coach Joe Lee Dunn – meaning that they knew going into the season that he wasn’t going to be the permanent head coach after Brewer). Archie and Olivia would have been fools if they’d pressured him to go to Ole Miss if they thought he had any legitimate shot of making it to the NFL – especially with Cooper not being able to play anymore. Peyton himself could not have saved us from the nightmare we were going through starting with the 1994 season.
Exactly.
People think Peyton betrayed us or something. We weren’t exactly selling him a load of goods. He owed absolutely nothing to us.
Thankfully all the bullshit that was going on in Oxford in the early 90’s was largely gone by the time Eli was graduating high school. Thank you Tommy Tuberville and, to a lesser extent, David Cutcliffe.
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by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Jan 26, 2012 8:58 AM EST up reply actions
Not to pick nits, but we got 8 total years of Manningness.
But yes, I agree with you. Had we not been in probation jail and had Cooper not been sick, OM football might look entirely different right now…
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