Peyton and Eli Manning are earning mostly praise for the first ever Manningcast of Monday Night Football. ESPN will bring the brothers back for nine more NFL games this season and one writer at Barstool Sports has suggested that it shouldn’t stop there.
“Peyton and Eli Manning’s Monday Night Football broadcast was one of the best viewing experiences I’ve ever had watching football,” wrote Big Tennessee, Fantasy Football Factory co-host and commissioner of the Barstool Fantasy League. “It was so much fun.”
As the name implies, Big Tennessee is a southerner. Just like the Manning family, he has deep SEC ties. Big Tennessee is from Georgia and is a fan of the Tennessee Volunteers.
He writes that ESPN would be smart to take advantage of the family’s association with two SEC schools and launch a special, college football edition of the Manningcast.
“I have a request: PLEASE have these two call Tennessee-Ole Miss on October 16. I’ve never wanted to watch a football game more than that game called by Peyton and Eli.”
Peyton Manning played his college football at Tennessee. He was a consensus All-American in 1997 and wrapped up most of college football’s major quarterback awards that year. While Manning was in Knoxville, the Vols ended a nine-year winless streak against rival Alabama and clinched their first SEC title in seven years.
Eli Manning played at Ole Miss, following in their father Archie’s footsteps. He won most major quarterback awards in the 2003 season. He was also second-team All American and first team All-SEC.
CBS still has the SEC’s primary broadcast rights this season. While that network gets the first pick of games, it is likely it would let Ole Miss vs. Tennessee go to one of the ESPN networks. Florida vs LSU or Auburn vs Arkansas are more likely in CBS’s crosshairs for October 16.
Big Tennessee writes that it should be easy enough to make this happen. The Manning brothers are already under contract. It would just take the two sides coming together to agree on a price to add an eleventh game to their current agreement.
“Just call a quick audible, toss each of them an extra couple hundred grand and watch the ratings for this game skyrocket,” Big Tennessee writes. “The people are demanding it.”
