Eli Manning & NFL Stars Face Off successful 2023 Sunday Easter Egg Hunt

When it comes to family, Eli Manning knows helium has quite the team. 

Married since 2008, the erstwhile New York Giants backmost and assemblage sweetheart Abby McGrew are parents to Ava, 11, Lucy, 9, Caroline, 7, and Charles, 3.

And portion his oldest kids are already showing involvement successful a assortment of activities similar hoops and lacrosse, Eli hopes they know sports is astir truthful overmuch much than winning and losing. 

"You larn astir teamwork and dedication and committedness and squad implicit self," Eli shared in an exclusive interrogation with E! News. "We've encouraged our kids to get into sports and antithetic activities truthful they tin larn immoderate of those beingness lessons. We look for them to effort antithetic activities and antithetic sports truthful hopefully they tin find thing that they are genuinely passionate about."

And for the record, Eli makes it wide to his children that they don't have to travel successful dad's footsteps. But if they effort thing new, they indispensable permission it each connected the field, truthful to speak.

After a twelvemonth of doing the activity, Eli said his kids tin marque the determination whether they privation to prosecute it oregon determination connected to thing else. 

"It's astir having the close cognition and moving done it and realizing that nothing's casual astatine first," the Super Bowl champion explained. "It's gonna beryllium hard. It's gonna beryllium awkward, You're gonna beryllium atrocious astatine something. It's astir moving done it and having a affirmative cognition and overcoming immoderate of the obstacles and that's what makes it amusive and worthy it."

Following his retirement from the NFL successful 2020, Eli says he's enjoyed spending much clip with his kids. While he's coached his daughter's hoops team, he's inactive learning astir the family's involvement successful lacrosse and hockey. "In basketball," Eli said, "I mightiness get a small spot much vocal."

And alternatively of Sundays being strictly focused connected football, Eli now finds himself enjoying roadworthy trips and activities with the family.

Just successful clip for the Easter season, Eli teamed up with his kids for The Children's Place's caller outpouring 2023 campaign. Launching online Jan. 31, the affordable manner items are cleanable for ovum hunts, vacations and different outpouring celebrations.

"With Easter coming up, it's astir matching," Eli declared. "Every day, my lad asks, ‘What's daddy wearing?' He's wanting to lucifer my outfits truthful we yet person immoderate matching pajamas, which I person to deterioration each nighttime now. Getting the girls dressed up and getting everybody matched up is thing my woman loves to bash and you tin bash it astatine The Children's Place."