Giants' Eli Manning calling signals on the first play of his career on Sunday November 21, 2004 against the Atlanta Falcons. Credit: NEWSDAY/PAUL J. BERESWILL
Imagine someone writing an eight-part series on every aspect of your life when you were 23, then looking back more than 15 years later to see how things had turned out.
Odds are, there would have been more than a few unexpected twists along the way, plus amusingly off-target assumptions and predictions from way back when.
Unless you are Eli Manning, that is.
In 2004, Newsday wrote an eight-part series about his rookie season, dubbed “The Education of Eli,” and as he prepares to bid farewell on Friday, a look back at that series reveals .