Time turned back slightly, to the end of last November. With the regular season still in full swing and Thanksgiving just having ended, the League and teams were poised to enter the sprint in December to vie for playoff positions, but a major news story broke out of New York.
New York Giants head coach Ben McAdoo announced that this coming Sunday when the New York Giants face the Oakland Raiders, the team would be led by Geno Smith as the starting quarterback.
This meant that Eli Manning, who had been the starting quarterback for the New York Giants for fourteen years and the face of the team, was benched, and his record of consecutive regular season starts in the League finally halted at 210 games.
A blockbuster announcement!
Although Eli's entire career was full of controversy, nobody expected it to end in such a trifling manner, swiftly dominating the front pages of major media outlets.