From Gary Meyer's Brady-Manning book

everlong said:

Call me crazy but I'm thinking Andrews hasn't expressed his love for Tom to this degree yet.

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He called his younger brother and asked him to relay a message to the Giants’ defensive leaders: If the Patriots were going to get into the end zone, he sure would appreciate if it happened on the ground. No touchdown passes, please.

“He said it jokingly, but maybe a little serious in the mix,” Eli Manning said. “I thought I would pass it on to Antonio Pierce.”

It was no joke.

Manning wanted that touchdown record to be enduring just as Dan Marino did when he threw forty-eight back in 1984, shattering the old record of 36 set by Y.A. Title that had stood since 1963. At least Marino’s record lasted twenty years. Manning’s was on the verge of being wiped out after just three years.

Pierce, the Giants middle linebacker, had created headlines that week by claiming Brady walks around “like he’s Prince Charles, like he’s the golden boy,” and complaining that Brady seemed indignant anytime a defensive player managed to lay their hands on him. The Giants did not like Brady. They wanted to knock him around. They were happy to give it their best shot to do Eli’s big brother a favor.

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sieglo said:

This is why Scar never tried moving Matt Light to center.

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