First-ballot? Not a first-ballot?
The Pro Football Hall of Fame voters will, at some point down the road, need to debate which of the aforementioned bills Eli Manning fits. The amount of time spent on this discussion could be upwards of 30-40 minutes, if not longer — that’s how balanced the argument is.
This pending conversation won’t take place for another few years anyway — Eli can’t be a part of any Hall of Fame class until the 2025 one.
But regardless of how much time still must pass, the longtime Giant doesn’t seem too phased about anything related to an induction…
“It’s one of those deals that you can’t control, you can’t worry about,” Manning told Ryan Dunleavy of the New York Post this week.