Don't bet the dog: Eli Manning is jinxed

By Pete Kotz on Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 1:48 pm

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Official ruling from the booth: Abby McGrew, Eli Manning's wife-to-be, is not jinxed

Maybe it’s not Jessica Simpson’s fault after all. Right before the Giants playoff game last Sunday, Eli Manning issued a request to his fiancée, Abby McGrew. Though temperatures were supposed to reach -12 degrees with the wind chill, could she please just sit in the stands during big game? Manning, like Simpson beau Tony Romo, the Cowboys quarterback, was starting to believe his girlfriend was having a negative effect on his play. Seemed every time McGrew sat in a Giant’s luxury box, the Giants lost. So the two agreed that for Sunday’s game, McGrew would sit in the stands…