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Late Night: Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning on brother Peyton’s future

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Fresh off his second Super Bowl victory, New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning paid a celebratory visit to ‘The Late Show’ on Monday night.

‘You know you are my favorite Manning,’ host David Letterman told the game’s MVP. ‘I’ve told you this before, right?’

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‘Yes. Many times, many times. I get a Christmas gift from you every year. It’s a jacket,’ Manning joked, prompting a cackle from the host. ‘The jacket, Peyton doesn’t get a jacket. That’s how I knew I was the favorite.’

‘How is your brother? What’s going on there?’ Letterman asked.

Manning said his brother, currently recovering from a neck injury, is ‘doing well.’ ‘He’s just trying to get a hundred percent. He just wants to play football. I think he will.’

Letterman expressed concern that Peyton might exacerbate the injury if he returns to the game.

‘Everything’s good to go. He got a good report from his doctors,’ Manning said. ‘He’s healthy. Now it’s just about getting to a hundred percent.’

Manning was less forthcoming in response to Letterman’s question about whether his brother would return to play for the Indianapolis Colts. ‘I don’t know. I do not know that,’ he insisted.

Letterman was not convinced. ‘You know. ... Don’t lie to me!’

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