Peyton Manning’s distain for the New England Patriots still runs deep.
By now, football fans are familiar with Manning’s gripes against the Patriots over the years since Spygate in 2007. In 2015, Manning admitted to believing the Patriots bugged the visiting locker room of the Indianapolis Colts in New England and as a result, he held meetings in an adjacent hallway to discuss strategy.
Now, Manning is cracking jokes and throwing some serious shade at the Patriots while on his “Monday Night Football” show with brother Eli Manning! On Monday, during the contest between the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, Manning made reference to the Patriots bugged locker room rumors when discussing a previous conversation made off-air earlier in the week.
Peyton Manning on bugged locker rooms and the Patriots. pic.twitter.com/kK99qAIkVg
— Justin Groc (@justgroc) September 21, 2021
Here’s just a selection of some of Manning’s comments from this moment late in the first quarter.
Peyton tells Eli that the Packers must have heard their conversation from Friday because they’re running the ball.
“I think our conversation was bugged, just like the Patriots used to do back in the day.”
— Andrew Siciliano (@AndrewSiciliano) September 21, 2021
Peyton: “Whenever we played in Foxboro I told my receivers, ‘Don’t talk about a play next to my locker — because I know it’s bugged.’” https://t.co/E7tyCewqwk
— Zak Keefer (@zkeefer) September 21, 2021
"Every time I played against New England, I used to talk to my receivers in the showers. Don't talk about a play next to my locker because I know it's bugged. I know it's got a hot mic in there. Very strange to see 7 guys hanging out in the shower." – Peyton Manning
— Jimmy Traina (@JimmyTraina) September 21, 2021
I love a good sports beef as much as the next person, so I’m so here for Manning reigniting the Spygate conversations on prime time television. This is the Manning brothers broadcast content we should be here for!
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