Eli was on David Letterman's show last night and received a standing ovation from the New York audience and was treated well by Letterman. Of course that was to be expected even from the drunk white fans three days after leading the hometown team to one of the biggest upsets in NFL history.  As the white fans operate on irrational emotion, especially when it comes to white players, Manning could easily be Public Enemy Number One again by the middle of next season.
And I think Deadlift is right about Southern QBs being especially disliked in Northern cities. Besides the Mannings, Phillip Rivers seems to be generally hated by drunk white fans everywhere.ÂÂ
I remember when Terry Bradshaw was drafted by the Steelers, he was treated as a combination of someone from Andy of Mayberry and Deliverance. His accent was regularly mocked and he was assumed to be stupid, a label he was stuck with all of his football career and beyond. Thomas Henderson of the Cowboys said before Super Bowl XIII that "Bradshaw couldn't spell 'cat' if you spotted him the c and the a." The media ate it up big time. I think one of the unstated reasons Bradshaw became so estranged from Pittsburgh after he retired was because of the way his Southern background was derided while he played.
If you listen to whites interact among each other, they love to mimick the voice of someone they imagine is Southern trailer trash when doing anti-white "humor" (ingrained self-loathing is what it really is). Though this is also sort of a universal "white guy" loser that is assumed to live everywhere, the stupid, unathletic white guy that white guys have been programmed to think of each other as. Comedians do this all the time too, as do radio DJs and just about every white person when trying to be funny.ÂÂ