EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Eli Manning angrily denied providing fake game-used memorabilia to a collector, insisting Thursday that he would ultimately be vindicated.
Manning addressed the accusations after a plaintiff in a 2014 lawsuit recently filed a motion to compel testimony that included an email from Manning to a team equipment manager asking for two helmets that could pass as game-used items.
Manning refused to discuss the specifics of the civil case, which is scheduled to go to trial in September in state Superior Court in Bergen County, N.J.
“I will say I have never done what I have been accused of doing,” Manning said at a news media availability for the Giants.