{"id":483531,"date":"2026-02-22T08:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T08:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/483531\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T08:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T08:40:10","slug":"eli-manning-im-not-losing-sleep-about-not-getting-into-the-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/483531\/","title":{"rendered":"Eli Manning: I’m not losing sleep about not getting into the Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bill Belichick falling short of election to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility was the biggest story to come out of this year\u2019s voting, but former Giants quarterback Eli Manning also missed out on being elected for the second year in a row. <\/p>\n

Manning\u2019s two Super Bowl wins over Belichick\u2019s Patriots are seen as a major plus for his candidacy while detractors have pointed to less stellar results over his entire career as the reason why Manning should not be enshrined. That view has won out thus far and Ben Roethlisberger, Rob Gronkowski, Adrian Peterson, and Richard Sherman are some of the notable additions to the ballot for 2027, so Manning\u2019s status might not change the next time he comes before the selection committee. <\/p>\n

Manning told former NFL head coach Jon Gruden on Gruden Goes Long that he isn\u2019t making a big deal about the way the voting has played out so far. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s one of those deals<\/a>,\u201d Manning said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t keep me up at night. I\u2019m not going to be bitter at it. I\u2019m not bitter at the game of football. I loved my teammates. I love the relationships, the friendships, the championships, the parades. When I think about football, I think about touchdowns and my buddies and wins and plane rides home. I don\u2019t think about the interceptions. I don\u2019t think about the bad stuff. I think about the positive things. If I ever get in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, I\u2019ll take it as a positive and I\u2019m not gonna think about the years I had to wait to get in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Manning has many years left on the modern-era ballot and his first two years of eligibility suggest that the merits of his case for inclusion will continue to be debated for some time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bill Belichick falling short of election to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his first year of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-483531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}