Eli Manning is retiring.

Here’s what I wrote back in 2004(?!?!) when the Giants drafted him:

(sweet screencap from the Wayback Machine’s cache of my blog back then)
(I also 100% have that jersey hanging in my closet. I wore it when I watched the Giants play.)
(man, I really need to get those old Movable Type posts integrated here)

In his years as the New York Giants quarterback, he brought me a lot of good times. Also some bad times, but the good times were so damn good I forgive them.

Specifically:

and,

I watched these games with my family and they were stressful and exciting in the way that rooting for sports teams can be. Goddamn they were exciting.

Thanks for the memories.