It’s a big week for the Manning franchise. Eli Manning will host this week’s edition of Saturday Night Live.
Unlike his brother, Peyton, Eli had to win a second Super Bowl before being awarded the hosting duties.
NBC has released the series of promos for this week’s show. Manning does one with Jason Sudeikis and then several with Kenan Thompson.
Judging from the promos, Eli likely won’t rival Peyton’s performance on SNL, which might have been the best ever for an athlete.
But as Seth Meyers noted on David Letterman Tuesday, it doesn’t matter how Eli does Saturday.
That’s the best thing about athlete hosts is they don’t stress out because nothing on our show is like harder than being chased around by a 300-pound man. And you can’t lose your day job. Like you can’t go back to camp and Tom Coughlin’s not going to be like, ‘Hey, we saw you on ‘SNL.’ We’re going another direction. We found a younger quarterback who’s better at accents.