Eli will replace envy with ring

GLENDALE, Ariz. - Back in the summer, as the August heat beat down on the Giants at their training camp in Albany, N.Y., Eli Manning acknowledged that he had ring envy. Brother Peyton had the rock, this monstrous diamond-and-sapphire Super Bowl ring commemorating the Indianapolis Colts' win over the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XLI.

Eli didn't want to stare, and certainly didn't want his big brother to  see  him stare. But he wanted one. Badly. Last night, with Peyton watching from a luxury box at University of Phoenix Stadium, Eli joined his brother as a Super Bowl champion, beating Peyton's biggest nemeses, the New England Patriots. Eli won his ring in dramatic fashion, successfully orchestrating a two-minute drill that included a play that will go down as one of the gutsiest in football history. Facing third and 5 from the Giants' 44-yard line, Manning somehow escaped Jarvis Green, who ...