Eli Manning Says He’s Stronger Than Peyton, Can Beat Him Up and Is Better At Every Workout Except One | CPT PPP Coverage

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Eli Manning and Peyton Manning have never bothered to hide their long-running sibling rivalry. The former NFL quarterbacks routinely share childhood memories of fighting, wrestling and generally trying to outdo each other since Eli came into the league in 2004.

Now, as retirees, Eli has pinned his ears back and verbally sacked Peyton in a rant boasting about being physically superior during an interview on The Rich Eisen Show on Thursday.

Eli said that when they were children, Peyton would often bark orders and demands, and even occasionally sit on the younger brother as a display of dominance. But now, things are different.

“That worked when he was five years older than me when he’s 12 and I’m seven, I couldn’t really fight back. Now that I’m 42, I’m stronger than him, now I can fight back and that hurts his ego when I beat him up,” Eli said. “Everybody knows I’m stronger than Peyton.”

It’s not the first time Eli has gone out of his way to boast about being physically superior to his older brother. When Eli was drafted in 2004, he told a reporter that he didn’t have to watch as much film as Peyton due to having more natural athletic ability. The reporter in question was Peyton, posing as one.

Eli added that he is better than Peyton at every workout except for an obscure one that the older brother has a unique mastery of — the hamstring curl.

“He is freakishly strong at hamstring curls,” Eli said. “I don’t even know if they make that machine anymore, it’s not even existent because it’s not very important. But that is one of those things that he is stronger than me.”

The hamstring curl, also known as the leg curl or nordic curl, was invented in the 1880s by New York-based physician George Herbert. It strengthens hamstrings, glutes and hip muscles and can improve general range of motion and can even help boost running speed.

However, both Peyton and Eli were known as notorious slow quarterbacks.

And yet, despite Eli’s self-proclaimed physical superiority, Peyton retired with the superior career accolades in the NFL. While the two brothers won the same number of Super Bowls with two, Peyton won the NFL MVP award five times while Eli never won it. Peyton also made 10 more Pro Bowls, earned 10 more All-Pro nods and finished with 14,917 more passing yards, 173 more touchdowns and 69 more wins.

Peyton’s mastery of the hamatring curl may have even helped the older brother outpace Eli by exactly 100 career rushing yards. Peyton had 667 rushing yards across 18 seasons while Eli had only 567 across 16 seasons.

Now, the two Mannings co-host ESPN’s Monday Night Football simulcast the “Manningcast,” but do so from separate locations. Eli says if they were to do it from the same location, the rivalry would flare up and the two brothers would end up in an on-screen wrestling match.

“If Peyton and I were in the same room that would not be good for the ‘Manningcast,'” Eli said. “We would start wrestling, there would be a noogie involved, that’s why we had to go separate houses, he’s in Denver, I’m in New Jersey, that keeps it somewhat civil.”