Playing in Peyton’s Shadow, Eli Shines Bright

After the final piece of confetti dropped from the ceiling of Lucas Oil Stadium following Super Bowl XLVI, there was a familiar name accepting the award for the game’s Most Valuable Player: Manning. But this time, it wasn’t big brother Peyton receiving the award in front of his home crowd. It was Eli, the youngest Manning, holding court, and cementing himself as one of the NFL’s ‘elite’ quarterbacks.

A Hall of Famer, though? His former teammate, Kurt Warner, now an analyst with the NFL Network, says not so fast. “I fully disagree with that,” Warner…