Making fun of the New York Giants and Eli Manning has become a recent NFL fan pastime, but when it comes to pranks, there is arguably no one better at them than the veteran quarterback.
We’ve been over this before. He’s painted linemen shoes purple. He got some teammates to box in a kicker’s car. He and his brother Peyton Manning reprogrammed Kevin Nealon’s cell phone after Saturday Night Live‘s 40th anniversary show. The truth is Manning is not-so-secretly evil.
The latest Manning prank story comes from the QB himself. At a Giants town hall, he told this story, per the Daily News:
He said he played one of his favorite pranks in his career on Andre Woodson, a rookie sixth-round QB picked out of Kentucky in 2008.
Woodson showed up late to a voluntary OTA and missed the quarterback meeting. So Manning excused himself to the bathroom and cleared out Woodson’s locker, grabbed a piece of Giants stationary and wrote “come meet me in my office, bring your playbook – TC” (as in Tom Coughlin).
The prank worked so well that Woodson brought the paper to Manning and asked him what to do. Manning said I guess you should go upstairs and apologize. But when Woodson actually began walking up the stairs toward Coughlin’s office, Manning raced and grabbed his new teammate and told him it was all a gag.
“I felt bad for a little bit,” Manning said with a laugh.
Making a teammate think he was about to be cut? EVIL!
