Eli Manning, the former New York Giants quarterback who was famously social media-averse for his entire 16-year career, has joined Twitter.
Manning opened his account on Saturday with a riff on a quote from Hoosiers. So far, his profile is very basic — headshot avatar and blank cover photo — but maybe that’ll change as he grows increasingly bored during quarantine.
To paraphrase Jimmy Chitwood, “I don’t know if it’ll make any change, but I figure it’s time for me to start playing social media.” pic.twitter.com/Af8IFMOiEQ
— Eli Manning (@EliManning) May 23, 2020
Unsurprisingly, Manning has already interacted with former rival Tom Brady, who roasted Manning roughly 29 minutes after his first tweet.
“Welcome @EliManning,” Brady wrote. “In typical fashion, you never showed up until the 4th quarter anyway.”
Manning’s new life as a social media maven isn’t entirely a shock. In April, Lawrence Tynes (one of Manning’s former teammates) tweeted a text conversation with Manning in which he encouraged the ex-quarterback to join the platform. At that point, Manning was “thinking about it.”
Well, we guess he thought about it enough.