appeared on Bussin\u2019 With The Boys<\/a> and said that while he and agent Tom Condon were on the same page that San Diego was the wrong place for him, his parents actually didn\u2019t agree.<\/p>\n\u201cMy parents really weren\u2019t supportive. My dad didn\u2019t like the idea,\u201d Manning said. \u201cNow, he came to my defense and like supported me after everything was going down, but . . . he didn\u2019t like that. And afterwards he took the brunt of a lot of the criticism because he came to my defense and people were saying, \u2018Oh, you played in New Orleans all those years you didn\u2019t win, so you\u2019re trying to dictate like where your son\u2019s going.\u2019 And and he just bit his tongue and said, \u2018Hey, this is what Eli wants to do and I support him\u2019 and he did some media to try to save me from doing all the media and taking the hits.\u201d<\/p>\n
Manning said he respected then-Chargers coach Marty Schottenheimer but could tell there was friction between Schottenheimer, the front office, and ownership, and didn\u2019t think the Chargers were heading in the right direction.<\/p>\n
\u201cSan Diego had the first pick, I didn\u2019t really want to go there,\u201d Manning said. \u201cI just didn\u2019t feel like they were the most committed team to winning at the time,\u201d<\/p>\n
When the possibility of a trade came up, Condon told Manning the Chargers were going to trade him to the Browns, and he didn\u2019t want to go there, either. Fortunately for Manning, ultimately the Giants and Chargers made a deal, and Manning won two Super Bowl MVPs in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Eli Manning refused to play for the Chargers after they drafted him first overall in 2004, it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-648668","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\/648668","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=648668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}