Donovan talked to ProFootballWeekly.com about Eli Manning winning the big one.
McNabb on Eli getting over the hump:
"And then you look at guys like Eli, and he had been pretty much getting dogged all year, all throughout his career, with people saying what he wasn’t able to do. And then for him to lead them to a Super Bowl championship, now all of a sudden people love him. It’s like night and day. I am happy for him."
McNabb On Eli's dad Archie and how gets caught up into the game:
"I remember actually three days prior to the Super Bowl, I was going to dinner and saw Eli’s mom, dad and his fiancée and I talked to Archie, who said, ‘He’s cool. He’s nervous, but he’s cool.’ I know Archie because my rookie year, I went to a Colts-Titans game, the playoff game. Marvin (Harrison) was one of my receivers [in college], so I went to go support him.
Archie was sitting there, biting every part of his fingernails off. He gets that tied into the game when his sons are playing. So I mean, I asked him, ‘Do you have any fingernails to bite?’ He said, ‘I just about bit them off in the NFC championship. When you play the game, and now you’re watching it, you get tied into it. And I was happy for him."
I know Archie faces a lot of criticism for the way he gets so involved in his sons' careers and lives but that's better than a lot of fathers in our country who aren't involved in the lives of their children. I find it difficult to criticize parents who get involved in the lives of their kids because there are so many that do nothing.
