Ad-free: San Diego gambling on Eli Manning was a big deal (Patreon)

What's good y'all. It's me, Joe, coming with another ad-free video that my boy JZ helped me cook up. Word of advice for any franchises and general managers: If an athlete explicitly tells you not to draft them, maybe it's best to listen! It’s night one of the 2004 NFL Draft, and as owners of the Number One pick, the San Diego Chargers messed around and found out. They wanted a quarterback, and by all accounts, the top-rated prospect of the draft was QB Eli Manning out of Ole Miss University. Buttttt, Eli didn't wanna be a Charger. What followed was a set of bizarre events that shaped two franchises and may never be repeated ever again during a draft night. San Diego’s decision to draft Eli Manning was a Big Deal.