httpss://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Sg0KQ7wvT8
The New York Giants announced on Tuesday that two-time Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning would be benched this week in place of former New York Jets quarterback Geno Smith.
The news is notable in light of Manning’s extraordinary longevity as the Giants starting quarterback, as well as the controversy surrounding Colin Kaepernick’s apparent continued blackballing from the league.
The 36-year-old Manning had started 210 consecutive games, the second-longest streak by a quarterback in NFL history behind Brett Favre’s 297-game run.
The Giants are 2-9 this year, but that likely has way more to do with his team’s offensive line being terrible and his receiving corps having been devastated by injury than anything Manning has done.
Manning was offered the opportunity to continue to start by coach Ben McAdoo as a symbolic means of keeping his streak alive, but he turned that down.
Geno Smith will be the first black QB to start for the New York Giants in franchise history, making New York the last team in NFL to start a black quarterback.