Texas Longhorns quarterback Arch Manning has come from a respected football family, but he has also had to pay his dues. In an interview with ESPN, Manning, 19, revealed that he was bullied by his famous uncles, Peyton and Eli Manning, and they even gave him wedgies. “Back in the day, Eli and Peyton used to kind of bully me, so it was good, give wedgies and stuff like that,” Arch said. “You just gotta make the younger guy tough. My brother and I, we went through it a little bit, it was good.”
The Manning brothers, Peyton and Eli, have been known for their sibling bullying, including wedgies. Peyton shared a story about how Eli gave him a wedgie while on a golf trip, saying, “I was trying to take a nap, and I was in a corner bed, and he came up behind me, he kind of had me leveraged into the wall, and he gave me a wedgie, he almost went atomic with it.” An atomic wedgie is classified as one in which a person’s underwear is pulled above the victim’s head or higher.
Eli has also described the harsh treatment Peyton instilled on him when they were growing up in Louisiana. He shared the story of how Peyton would pin him to the floor and give him intense football trivia challenges. Prior to playing in Super Bowl XLVI, Eli said, “I probably have quite a few of them, but to limit it to one — his most popular move, he would pin me down and take his knuckles and knock on my chest and make me name the 12 schools in the SEC.”
