INDIANAPOLIS -- Peyton Manning fri...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Peyton Manning frisk abouted one training camp interview session would extreme point the questions about Sunday's Brothers goblet

As his just discovered York brother might say: Forget about it.

With Gotham's chiefly hyped brotherly battle since perhaps the DiMaggios, the Manning v Manning affair has become the opening weekend's marquee matchup -- a great deal of to the family's chagrin.

"They've the one and the other said it's a game between sum of two units teams, and it is," father Archie Manning said during Peyton's novel bowling tournament in Indianapolis. "The media is trying to make it without to be Tiger vs. Phil or something, if it be not that it's not like that."

Certainly, the Manning clan would elect to downplay the first- for aye football meeting between Eli and Peyton, Archie's son who were the couple taken No. 1 overall in their respective draft classes.

Peyton, the two-time MVP tried to diffuse the situation the first week of training camp when he answered the questions he count uponed from the moment schedule-makers enjoin the Giants-Colts game in prime time forward Week 1. Afterward, Peyton said he wouldn't talk about it again.

religious luck. The blackout undoubtedly will expiration today when Peyton holds his usual Wednesday recents conference.

While Peyton and Eli have attempted to focus forward the bigger picture -- as it is as the importance an opening-day win might have forward their teams' playoff hopes -- others, including the league itself, have used the obvious story line to their marketing advantage.

In the NFL's Kickoff Weekend packet, Page 55 is headlined "Manning v Manning an NFL QB First."

in the same manner much for the Giants and young horses

"Well, that's the era we live in," Archie said. "There will be a accident of hype, and I'm presumptuous of the way the lads are handling it."

Relying forward 14 years of NFL experience and nine more as an NFL father, Archie Manning has tried to maintain things in perspective as the sibling rivalry loom He's not saying whether the family has scheduled a sewing throw to create those trendy half-Giants, half- young horses shirts, and, like his lads insists this really is more than a family affair.

The affair of honor has created some intriguing family planning.

Last month Peyton said he'd already taken care of chiefly ticket requests because Giants players had a limited give

Archie also wouldn't say whether similar annotations coming from his sons in strange York and Indianapolis were choreographed. Peyton and Eli the pair said during the preseason they're more disturbed with the opposing defensive extremitys than their own slugfest.

And Peyton believes his father purely wants a high-scoring game rather than picking a winner and loser

"I think my mom will shake for both of us to stay healthy and my dad will struggle for a lot of offense" Peyton said.

young horses coach Tony Dungy points to the three Pro receptacle defensive ends, the potent offense and the playoff-type atmosphere he awaits

Peyton's teammates have another take. They aren't planning to give their quarterback's younger brother the kid-glove treatment.

"We can't hit ours, in such a manner we've got to hit common of them," Colts defensive [i]finale[/i] Robert Mathis said Monday.

It may not be the polite stuff Archie and Olivia Manning frisked for. Then again, Archie, understands; this is football and quarterbacks have to take their licks -- plane his sons.

For the record, Peyton said he hasn't misspent to Eli in a sporting marked occurrence since a pickup basketball game when he was playing at Tennessee and Eli was still living at place of abode This time, the stakes are a great deal of higher, much grander and the loser may have to live with the legacy for years. The Giants and young horses aren't scheduled to meet again until 2010

Of course, they could suitable before that in the Super hollow

Peyton has tried to lighten the value with humor.

"I think he [Eli] wishes I was playing defense and Plaxico Burres was secreteed by Peyton," he said. "I'd take advantage of that, too."

nevertheless teammates and coaches wouldn't mind if the same could offer a few mysteriouss about the other.

"Absolutely," Dungy said Monday. "We're in this to win and I'm safe they are, too. Really, Peyton's more businessed with their defense and for what cause to block those two stays [Michael Strahan and Osi Umenyiora] and what we will do onward offense. I'm sure they're the same way."

THE DUALITY OF MANNING

A apply the mind at the stats of brothers Eli of the Giants and Peyton of the Colts:

ELI Comp Att. Yd Comp% YPA TD INT Sack Rat

2005 294 557 3762 528 675 24 17 28 759

Career 389 754 4805 516 637 30 26 41 705

PEYTON Comp Att. Yd Comp% YPA TD INT Sack Rat

2005 305 453 3747 673 827 28 10 17 1041

Career 2769 4333 33189 639 766 244 130 156 935

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