Cooper Manning on the power of a positive attitude

Cooper Manning (Fox Sports’ The Manning Hour) joins Brooke to talk about growing up in a football famous family, the secret to raising Super Bowl champs (no, there’s nothing in the water), and the devastating diagnosis that ended his own sports career and forced him to pave a different life path. Plus, Coop shares his secret dream of doing stand-up comedy one day and reveals which Manning brother is their mom’s favorite.

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
What do you do in life doesn't go according to plan?
That moment you lose the job, or a loved one,
or even a piece of yourself. I'm Brookshields and this
is now What, a podcast about pivotal moments as told
by people who lived them. Each week, I s to
teal with a guest to talk about the times they
were knocked off course and what they did to move forward.

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Some stories are funny, others are cut wrenching, but all
are unapologetically human and remind us that every success and
every setback is accompanied by a choice, and that choice
answers one question. Now what a friend of mine said

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to me. He looked at my hands, He goes, damn,
last time I saw hands that big. They had a
Super Bowl ring on him and your mom and I
think even did the hand to hand thing. I was like, mss,
you were tall tall women. I like, you know another thing.
We all attracted tall, tall ladies. My mom's five eleven

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or so, and yeah, she's five nine or so. I
mean it's short as I'll go. Yeah, I was gonna
say I thought she was taller than that. But I know,
but I think it's great. I go, I get around
you guys, and I'm I don't feel like an Amazon anymore.
That voice you just heard is my good friend, Cooper Manning.

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Cooper is an entrepreneur, He's a TV personality and a
wonderful husband and father. He hosts The Manning Hour on
Fox Sports, and if you've watched football recently, you've likely
seen him steal the show in those hilarious Caesar sports
book commercials. Cooper is also part of the football famous
Manning family. His dad, Archie, was a well respected NFL quarterback,

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and brothers Peyton and Eli are widely considered some of
the greatest quarterbacks to have played the league. As for Cooper,
he was a talented player in his own right until
a career ending diagnosis forced him to pivot and create
a different life for himself. He is one of the
most positive people I have ever met. He's so funny,

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and I'm so happy that he's agreed to join the
show and share his incredible story with us. All here
is Cooper Manning. I'm so happy to be talking to you.
I miss you. I missed you this summer too. I'm
playing hard to get Is it working? Yes, it's working.
In my my my heart is just exploding. When I

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wanted to speak to you for the podcast, my producer
asked me how we knew each other, And it was
funny because the first thing that I could think of
would be was just going out and drinking too much
tequila with you and Allen. I was like, that's the
first thing. That's where most great relationships began, in my opinion,
you know totally. Well. I remember Chris was working in
New Orleans, my husband, Chris, and I was working in

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New Orleans, and we were walking out of a restaurant
and I ran into your mom and your dad, and
I think the giants had just one. It was Marty Gras.
They invited us immediately over to the house, and the
minute you and Chris met, it was as if it
was slow motion and music was playing the two of
you that your eyes met, and then you found each

(03:28):
other and and you just hit it off immediately. I
feel pretty confident that both of us left that day
going that guy is so much more immature than me.
Both of the same the same thing about one another. Well,
I won't we won't get into some of the antics
that you guys do when you're driving around town. We're
going to leave that if you won't, certainly those are
those are highlights of my life. So if you want

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those antics are already in the hip, ready loaded, ready
to fire. So if you need, they're here. But great, No,
it's been so funny, you know, and you know about
anyone Brook It's rare that you make really good friends
later on in life, and so when you do, you
cherish it. So it's been Uh, you're right, it's been
too long since we've hung out, and we're we're overdue.
We were, We're definitely overdo and we'll fix that. The

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now what audience might be a slightly new audience for you.
So if you were to introduce yourself to them, how
would you how would you want to introduce yourself? Who?
Who is? Who is Cooper Manning to this possibly new audience. Yeah,
I'm probably known more for being the brothers of two
other famous people than being independently known. Um. I have

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a little, little, fun, little show on Fox before football
games on Sunday and called The Coop Manning Our Minus
fifty eight minutes. I play a character that thinks he's
really important. He's very cocky, he thinks he's the star
of the show. And that is far from the truth.
And I get to interview fun NFL players, show old
side of them that's not on the field, whether it's

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I mean getting a couple's massot massage or getting a
manicure to pedicure with another player, or wrestling or you
know whatever, showing another side of them that that's lighthearted,
not football related at all. And so that's been fun.
It's my eighth year of doing that. And then my
wife has always wanted to be married to a game
show host, and so now hey, don't have a game show.

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So it's I'm really just racking up the points as
far as uh. But I mean, you know, you brought
up something, you know, someone who's been talked about mostly
in relation to other entities. How does that feel to
sort of just to really on your own terms carve
out something that's new and fun for yourself. It's fun,

(05:39):
you know. I'm not I would say, I'm probably not
trying too hard. Things just kind of come away and
I do it, and I just I'm kind of content
with my life and I do a few fun things
on the side that I think let people laugh and
have a little fun. But I think it's been fun.
I mean, I wouldn't trade my role in the whole
scheme of things. I've got to do all kind of
great fun things. And Peyton Eli are great football players

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and now they're great, they're on TV and doing well,
and then we all get along. Well it's it's it's fine.
I'm I like my role and I'm content. Well, it's
also your family is such a you know what, I
was amazed at, how what a what a really beautifully
close knit family you were, you know, and that and
that's a tribute to your mom and your dad and

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I mean, were you guys always always such a very
close knit family and really in each other's corner. I
would say, So, my parents are great. I'm pretty lucky
to have a template to watch how it's supposed to
be done because they love each other, but they put
their children first and and and we certainly felt that.
I was thinking about that this morning on I didn't
know what you were going to ask you, but I

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was kind of thinking about I'm the oldest of three,
and then I'm also the first grandchild, so my aunts
and uncles and I was the first one, the oldest one,
so I remember being kind of the star of the
show from the gid go, like, you know, everybody was
making a big deal out of me. Um, well before
I deserve to be a big deal, you know at
two and three, and like when you walk in the
room and everybody stops and you kind of have the

(07:06):
floor and it's like entertain me. My mom was like
maybe laugh, you know, and you kind of had that
role and that was certainly, um, I think a part
of why I'm wired the way I am. But um, yeah, everybody,
everybody gets along pretty well. Do you grow up with
a lot of pressure? I think, Um, my parents were
not big on complaining. You're not allowed to complain, So

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we were all I think independently driven. Um wanted to
do well, wanted to succeed, and you know, fortunately athletics
or a big part of how my dad interacted us
with us. He always liked, hey, let's go out in
the yard. Let's go, let's go throw I'll throw you
back in practice, let's go hit tennis ball, let's go
you know, catch pop flies, whatever it may be. And

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that was a great way of of having constant interaction.
And my mom probably deep down wanted some daughters brook
but she got three boys. And she, uh, she likes
her granddaughters and she likes these gals that we all married,
so it works out fine for her. There's some great,
great women that married into that family. But there must
have been something in the water or something in the

(08:09):
genetics of your mom and dad, because one are the
chances of having two NFL stars. I mean, and you're
a big family. Everybody's just a tall, handsome person. I'm
calling this show anytime you want. Um, I don't that
was not like the goal. We looked up to our dad.

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He had played and uh, I don't think there was
any secret that that he was our hero and he
did things the way we we kind of wanted to
emulate ourselves, and so unfortunately we were You know, my
mom's side of the family is very athletic as well,
and they're competitive and it's kind of part of the
part of the culture. I can imagine that type of
competition is contagious. I mean your kids are all athletes. Yeah,

(08:52):
my oldest I have a daughter who's who's in her
second year in college at Virginia. She was she was
very good high school. The one state championship, she was
m VP, and she wrote off into the sunset now
is having fun as a it's just a college college gal.
And then yeah, my oldest son, Arch is a senior

(09:12):
in high school and he's he's a quarterback and he's
going off to the University of Texas next year to
play play football. And then I have another son, Hide,
who's um a junior who's who starts. He's an offensive lineman,
a little bigger, a little more booty to him, booty
and attitude and a funny, funny boy. I think we met,
didn't we meet all of them? Or they were like

(09:33):
a little bowling ball, the greening other big bowling balls.
My my girls were looking at the boys, like, Mom,
I wonder what it's like to have brothers. I'm like, well,
here it is there. They're a wired differently, I assure you.
I think back to what you talked about, Broke. I

(09:53):
think that the sports are such a good life lesson
because things go wrong and you lose, and you compete
and you do everything right, and then you don't get
the results you want. And so I thought, I've always
been really gravitated toward team sports because you have to
put up with people who care about it less than

(10:14):
you do. Or that aren't as good as you, or
that are better than you, And how do you deal
with all those to get to where you want to be?
And the pressure. I'm sure of living up to the
Manning name. I mean, do any of your children not
want to go into the family business so to speak? Well,
you know, I don't think we ever talked about the pressure.

(10:34):
I thought, I just really emphasize working hard and enjoying it. Um,
if you want to be really good, you're going to
have to do things above and beyond what the coaches
are asking you to do. You gotta you know, lift
in in the morning and get runs in at night,
and do extra sit ups and throw when no one's looking,

(10:55):
and you know, practice practice, practice, because that's we're not
gifted enough to just up. And yeah, you gotta know
that's you know, going back to Peyton Eli's uncles, those
guys are not by any way being stretched the most
talented guys in the field, and they're not faster or stronger.
Some people would probably disagree. Yeah, I mean, but you know,
but you get you get guys that are so gifted

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that sometimes don't work. I have, um, a couple that
are just grinders. You know, they will outwork you, they
will stay up till four o'clock and do the work,
they'll run extra and then you have one that has
tons of ability and likes to work. And if you
look around in the history of anything, if you have
people that are just gifted and work, those are the
ones that the people talk about. This show is called

(11:51):
now What um and it really struck me as sort
of the now what moments in our lives that really
do define how we respond to these these issues that
really defines how we go forward in the world. And
I feel I've had now what moments probably my whole life.
My most recent one, I was in the hospital for

(12:12):
a month I broke my femur. And I'm always fascinated
with people's now what moments because we have multiples. It's
either it's a positive opportunity or or a difficult one,
or a tragedy or something that we have to face.
What would you say that you're biggest now what moment
has been in your life? For me, probably it was,

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you know, as I mentioned, grew up in a very
athletic oriented family and playing football was very important to me.
And then go to go off to college to play football,
Little Miss, and then um, kind of before it even starts.
I mean literally, um, week two or three of the
of the first season, doctors come in and say something,
we don't see something right here your hands or numb.

(12:55):
Something's up. We need to go sending to the Mayo
clinic and go pop round season doctors. And you find
out surely thereafter that I have like a little stenosis
in my spinal cord. And says, you know, football is
no longer. So you're eighteen, you're going after college, college scholarship.
He played for All Miss b a wide receiver. Have
fun kind of fu fail your dreams going back to

(13:17):
where your parents played school and then they say, bam,
it's over. And so that was probably that was a tough,
a tough moment for for an eighteen year old, even
even for me. He was kind of happy, go lucky.
What is what is this to? Basically, most people have
a spinal cord and you have a spinal column which
kind of you know, kind of protects it, so you

(13:37):
just kind of and they have like the space around it.
And mine was like I think gets happened. It kind
of bangs up against the wall and it can cause problems.
So you're not You're fine. You can live your whole life.
People can go on and play and never know. But
football is probably the one football water, skiing, car rex,
those kind of things or things they say, probably not

(13:58):
a good idea. And so, um, did you have surgery
with our surgery? Yeah, I had to have surgery the
kind of make a little more room around it, give
you a little protection, and then had um a fusion.
Um a couple of years later was the how was
the recovery process and the physical therapy for well, I
had a Yeah, it was a pain because I had
a blood clot and so I woke up and like, um,

(14:21):
wasn't the same Like as a matter of fact, I
had they woke up and I was like paralyzed and
they had to go back in and they fixed some things.
And it's over my head as far as medical jargon,
but um, you know I had to learn how to
walk again. My right leg lost its strength and my
left leg lost its feeling. And so you were like
and you felt like you were, you know, walking with
two different people's limbs right there. And so but you're

(14:44):
young and youthful, and I want to get back to
normal and and did my physical therapy and got back
and it's always I'll never be the athlete that I was,
But I also can you know I can do just
about everything I want to do as well. What do
you tell what would you tell some on I mean,
when I was in the hospital, the only thing I
could do was learned how to walk, and I asked

(15:06):
to get physical therapy twice a day. And the learning
how to walk with such a strange, terrifying feeling. What
is what would your advice to somebody who's got to
go through something like that to keep yourself strong emotionally
and mentally well. I think the the little steps for
like even like, hey, okay, you know now I'm walking

(15:28):
without holding onto the side of the rails. That's progress,
you know. I think you've gotta baby steps are good steps.
And um, I just wanted to get back to normal.
That was my goal, Like, look, I just want to
get back where I can do the daily things that
everyone else can do. And so I was. I didn't.
I really don't look back and kind of feel sorry

(15:49):
for myself. I'm really like the task at hand and
say I'm gonna go get this. I'm hungry I'm motivated
and I'll do whatever it takes to get there. And
that's that was kind of my kind of my attitude.
You always have a positive way to to look at
a situation, And do you think that's innate? Do you
think that it's just innate? And who you are? You know?

(16:11):
I do, and I'm I'm probably I'm not good at
some things that required Like I have a couple of
buddies who are always can look at the other way,
and I gotta get them around me sometimes, like when
you're looking at a business deal, I'm like, oh, this
is great. I like this, this is good okay, And
I just kind of helped the person who's pitching it, like, man,
you've really done a nice job. And then I get

(16:31):
my guy and he's like, well, they didn't look at this,
they didn't look at that, you know, And I just
I'm kind of a rosy grass is green right where
I am. I don't particularly enjoy the company of real
serious people, and they probably think I'm, you know, just
rose colored glasses, and you know, well yeah, but I
think also to see the way that you've supported your brothers,

(16:54):
it's really such a beautiful thing to be able to say,
I celebrate your successes and I'm right here with you,
and I love you and the sports so much that
I can actually enjoy this too. I think, um, truly
being happy for people that are having success is a
is a great quality. And and I've been warned of
that before. In the business world. You'll say, someone will say,

(17:16):
you've got to be careful. Some people that don't want
anyone else to succeed, they get mad when other people
do well. That's that's a bad quality. And I don't
know if that's an eight or that's fixed or taught. Uh,
you know, can be healed. But when someone does something great,
Uh man, I'm I'm proud of them. I don't I
think that that's a healthy way. I think it's hard

(17:38):
for people. I mean, I think we regret. It's a
hard thing. How do you not have regret? You know?
Some people talk about I was telling Ellen the other night,
we have two kids playing high school football. It's but
it's great that my parents were lucky enough to have
Peyton and I were playing high school football together. They
were going to the games and their friends are there,
and this is a fantastic time of our life. I mean,
it is really neat. I mean just high school sports

(18:01):
are so pure and clean. No one really talks bad
about you if you don't do well, and it's just
it's pure and fun. And I talked to people that
have their kids have graduated and moved on, and they're going,
oh my god, I miss it so much. And I said,
as much as I love it, I don't think I'm
ever gonna I'm gonna have loved it, but I don't
think I will be looking back and going that was

(18:24):
the best time. Now this is not. I look forward
to all the new next chapters and next steps. I don't.
I mean, I loved, you know, when they were playing
a little league, but I don't miss them playing a
little league anymore. I look forward to seeing how they
grow up and see how it turns out. I don't.
I kind of look forward to tomorrow every day. Are

(18:45):
you excited for Arch to play? Are you scared about
I'm really excited. You know, he loves it so much
that it makes it It makes it easy, and he
works hard and he's um, you know, who knows how
it all works out, but he's know, he's chasing a
dream and uh and a passion that he's you know,
he's excited about and that's all you want. I mean,

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Ellen's nervous, isn't you know? You can see these how
many people are going to the games, and see how
big and fast everybody is. He's trying to kill him.
She's a nervous freck and she don't even knows what
he's getting into. But you know, I think you'd feel.
I think you'd feel every impact. I think you just
feel every everything. My mother has been to more football
games than any woman in the world, and big, big

(19:29):
games that she's so calm and cool. I don't know
how she does it. How did you end up in
the business world? Like what was that trajectory like for you?
You know that was kind of a pivot also when
when football ended and you're like, Okay, now I gotta

(19:51):
figure out what I want to do. And I always
liked interacting with people. And I was told as a
young kid, like you're gonna go you're in sales. You've
gotta be a sales I don't know what they help man,
you know you're twelve, Oh, you're gonna be a salesman.
Like whatever that means. Because we're all we're all sales
in in some fashion sales people. But um, I was
really lucky. Um. Out of college, I went to work

(20:13):
for this uh um, and I want to do something
that I didn't It was not tied to my name
or tied to sports. I kind of wanted to go
off and do my little deal. And there was a
in the in the energy business, in the oil service business.
There was a family there that was hiring people. And
I said, I don't know anything about this, and they
took a shot on me, and it was it was great.
I worked there, I learned I didn't know anything. And

(20:36):
then three years later, another investment banking firm said, you know,
we're looking for some young institutional salesman. It was this
cool thing. And I had a little history and then
in energy business and they were energy related and I
didn't have a great financial background, but I was good
at it. I was good at talking to people. I
was good at get people on the phone and get
people to trust me, and and wound up being really

(20:59):
good at at you know, on Wall Street. Um, you know,
got lucky on some timing of things. Continue to learn
and continue to meet new incredible people that are so
intelligent and driven that uh, and surround ourselves with smart
people and it's maybe look good. What are you most
proud of? Do you think? I think I'm proud of

(21:20):
the fact that if someone called and said, hey, I
got a call from Coop remaining about doing this deal?
Do you know him? Should I look at it? Is
he a good guy? I think you I get pretty
good grades. I know you would. Um. Do you think
that there's people that there are misconceptions that people have
of your family? Probably? I think they probably think we're

(21:43):
just there's never a cross word or just everybody's just singing,
you know in harmony, as we have perfect table manners
and you know, go to bed at ten thirty at night.
And I don't think that's true. I mean, I don't
know if they do or not. I think we've done
a pretty good job of letting people know that we
have a ton of flaws, and we're wrong a lot,

(22:04):
and we're far from perfect. But I think we try
to do the right thing, and we're we um surround
ourselves with smart people and good people, and and like
to poke fund on ourselves. I'm sure you've experienced it more.
But people will come up and say things and they don't.
They don't mean it. I don't think they say really
dumb things and they're trying to be kind. I think,

(22:28):
you know, somewhat kind. Like they'll say, you know whatever,
a boy Peyton was terrible last night and in the
Monday night game, and I'm like, oh, that's so thank
you for okay, great, thank you for sharing that. I'm
sorry you you know, like you don't say that, but
they don't know, and so you just kind of have
to put on a happy face. And I did a

(22:51):
speaking engagement yesterday and Michigan, and a woman came up
to me at the end and she said, I was
really not anticipating liking your talk, but I did very much.
And I was like, well, thank you for sharing the up. Yeah. Really,

(23:14):
what do they think they're gonna do? You're gonna go
there and juggle and just tell bad jokes. I mean,
but it's like it's like every time I've been on Broadway,
someone's come up to me and said, you know, I
thought you were gonna suck, but you're you're good like people.
I'm glad the bar is so low that I can
just succeed. You know. I do have one thing I
want to do in my life that I'm scared to do,

(23:37):
and I'm kind of you're you're bringing it out of
me Brook And I would love to try to do
a stand up comedy bit. I don't know where you
do it? Do it local and do you know do
five ten fifteen shows. I love listening to Jerry Seinfeld
talking two different comedians and they when things go terrible,
like bombing this night, you know, and it's like a
badge of hotter. You you gotta get booed or throw

(23:58):
just absolute no hitters to to kind of get there.
And I've always loved stand up comedians and watching them
and and seeing different styles and see how they work.
But I would one day when I'm bored, I think
I'm gonna just hit the room. Well I know, I mean, listen,
you got Chris Huntie, so I mean, at least that's
one guy who will be in the audience to be

(24:19):
in the audience, and he definitely help you. I know
he would do it. But I don't. They have sort
of open mic nights and comedy comedy clubs. There's no reason.
I mean, I've been and I have a son who
I tell I said, you know, when you think of things,
just just put a little note card, just write them down,
because I don't love rehearsing and like having the same thing,
Like I'd love to do it, but i'd want to

(24:40):
do it once and I want new material. I need
to be better at. You know, when something pops up
in my head, that's funny, right, being able to get
it out in the right in the right way, because
it's a tonal thing, and then it's a it's an
economy of words, you know what I mean. It's very interesting.
I tried it once. I had to host something, and

(25:01):
I am not good at it. I'm really not good
at I can tell stories that are funny sort of
on a talk show, or I can be funny and
slip in things, but when it comes to just the
stand up horrible. Chris tried it too and said he
just wasn't very good at it, and so he would
sell jokes to other comedians like he sold Jim Carrey.

(25:23):
I think my young Jim Carrey like a fifty joke
in the eighties. I wonder what it's worth now. Yeah,
I love um. One of my favorite things to do
is to give a toast at a rehearsal dinner. And
I particularly love it when I'm barely invited to that event,

(25:45):
like I'm not you know, I'm a fringe. Last minute
someone canceled on cooking them are up here, they came
to the wedding, Go ahead and invite them. And then
I get up and no one even knows who I
am when I get up and just take over the room.
I was at a wedding one time in Memphis and
we had no business being invited, and the toasts were
not going well, and they were they were downright bad.

(26:07):
And my dad was at the table and I said, Dad,
I'm gonna I'm gonna make a toast and he's like, no,
you're not, no, you know, I said Dad. And the
toast kept on going and they were not good, and
I said Dad, I'm gonna do it, and he goes,
you don't have the balls to do it, and I
went okay, and I just like I got Mike, please,
and I went on, do you ever get questions you hate? Like,
what's the question? You? You just want to like punch

(26:29):
somebody for asking you? Oh goodness, um oh, people ask
me when when you know Eli and Peyton have a
Monday night they do the Monday night football game and
they have guests and they go, when are you going
to be a guest on Monday Football? And I'm just
not going to be And so I don't know why
I might they think I'm getting like my feelings hurt
or rejected or something. I always say I'm the guests

(26:50):
when it go to overtime, and that's so much thinking
over time, waiting, Like it's like I'm waiting there in
the studio, like please go to overtime to me be it.
But you know, it's so fun, Like what a That's
such a silly thing to ask you because it's it's
not really I mean, the question would be do you
have any desire to be on said show? But this

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sort of like when are you going to do it?
It just sounds like it's like a needlingk. I don't
hate questions like that, right, definitely, No, it's fun. I mean, um,
if I really want to be on it, I call
either one of them saying hey, can I get on
the show? Dear goodness? What the heck? Okay? All right,
so quick fire. These are questions like even growing up

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or even now, but between you and your brothers, all right,
I'm gonna say two things and then or I'm going
to say one thing and then you tell me what
The first thing it comes to your mind is who's
the messiest? We are so neat all of you anal
over the top, anal retentive. My dad would made us
lay out our clothes every night in lower school before

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we're gonna wear you know. As a matter of fact,
I'll tell Peyton and I would get in a fight
every now and then in middle school what have you?
And uh, I would go into his room and mess
up his room, like literally, take his chair and just
put it down, take some papers and you know, place
place him neatly but on the floor, take his you
know yeah, make up his unmake his bed. I mean

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it was like that was that was that was that
was gonna say, must have been crazy. Did he retaliate?
He would retaliate by doing the same thing to me.
It was pretty It's pretty high level fighting, right, Okay,
who is the biggest whiner? Peyton's a tough customer, you know,
so now I you know, he just like he would
like to. He likes to give you a hard time
about your selection of things, like, hey, where we're going

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dinner night, and that's how we're going here. And he
get there and he'd be like, you know, so now
I say, I don't know. I don't know wherever you
want to go, so therefore no one can can complain.
Eli is the least complaining person whining up. He's never
had a Eli doesn't even know how to complain. I mean,
he could go to a restaurant, I said, and order
a steak and they bring him a flounder. He wouldn't

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even tell the waitress. He would just eat it and
never know, would ever know he didn't order it. It's
amazing some people. Yeah, he's he's he's a contempt to
give his life for me. Whose mom's favorite helies number one?
And then I'd say Peyton and I are tied for
the last. Why because he's so sweet and nice and thoughtful,

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and I just I sometimes out on those little qualities.
But I'm always broke. But I will say I'm always like,
if there's an event or a party, I'm number one
request to make it fun. Can's down the most fun.
So's that's a trade I gotta take if I'm gonna
be last, you know, loved, at least I'll be first

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when it's a good quality to have. Um, who is
most likely to be late? Another thing? We are very
neat and we were very punctual. We were early earlier.
I think I know the answered to this one. But
who's the best salesperson? Yeah? Yeah, Um, Payton is not bad.

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Eli is not a very good salesman. I don't think
I think I could. You could take Peyton. You get
Peyton and a room together. We're gonna, we're gonna, we're
gonna move some paper. Um okay, it's a family event
and you're picking quarterback. Who gets picked first? And he
gets the bench? Oh shoot, um, mom has great hands.

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Peyton Eili are just gonna play, you know, one on
one and my dad and I are gonna over there
and have an old fashioned and a cigar and just
watch everybody run around. I can do some cheerleading with Chris.
I was a cheerleader for football and basketball. Is that Yes,
We've never really talked about it, but it's a high school.
I think that's a whole Another podcast. Another podcast that

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was the hilarious Cooper Manning and my husband getting into
a lot of trouble together. So I think it's time
we hang out again. If you want to hear more
from him, check out The Manning Hour on Fox Sports.
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