How Eli Manning and Drew Brees are forever linked due to a Draft Day phone call back in 2004

BREES-MANNING FAMILY RELATIONSHIP: Brees and the Mannings had known each other before he became a Saint, but Brees’ signing in New Orleans deepened his connection with the family, especially father Archie Manning, the two-time Pro Bowler and longtime Saints QB who raised his family in New Orleans, the birthplace of both Peyton and Eli. Brees recounted in a 2010 interview with CBS’ Katie Couric that he leaned on Archie for almost everything when he first got to New Orleans, all the way down to where to get a haircut. And he and his wife developed a special connection and admiration for the Mannings as community leaders in New Orleans, so close that the only time Archie wouldn’t root for Brees was, of course, when he faced his sons. That included Brees beating Peyton’s Indianapolis Colts, 31-17, in Super Bowl XLIV on Feb. 7. 2010. “Archie will send me texts a lot just before games wishing me luck,” Brees said in the 2010 interview. “There was one time where we were about to play Eli and he shot me a text that said, ‘You’re on your own this week, buddy.’ Just joking around. And he even sent me a text a few days ago, proud of the game obviously, and said if you were playing anybody else I’d be all over this ‘Who Dat’ extravaganza, festivities and everything else. He said, ‘unfortunately you have to be playing the Colts.’ I know that his heart is with the Saints having played here so many years, but blood’s thicker than water.”

Pat Leonard

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