About as relaxed and funny as you'll ever see him. Rich Eisen and Marshall Faulk's Hawaiian shirts, in addition to a Super Bowl trophy will do that to you.
After Manning gave team-oriented answers, Faulk tried to hard to get Manning to say what the title meant only to him, "I haven't really answered those questions ... people always ask that. I always spun the question... gave a cliche answer to all those questions. Hopefully I won't have to answer those questions."
Talking about the game, he thought Dominic Rhodes, Joseph Addai, or Kelvin Hayden could have won the MVP.
"As much as we felt like we were dominating the game at he line of scrimmage, I looked at the score and it was only 22-17. If Hester breaks one return or Muhammad catches a deep one, and they got the lead, and anything can happen. I wanted to make it a two score game so bad, and the defense finally did it."
All the players and stars at the Pro Bowl were congratulating Manning at the pool, and Manning was overwhelmed. Steve Hutchinson, a close friend, kidded Manning, "You've changed."
"I'm still the same guy that could never win the big game," Manning replied. "I'm a choke artist. I want to known as the same guy."
Manning and Faulk joked about offensive coordinator Tom Moore's smoking habit.
"That 45-minute halftime was the greatest thing of his whole life. He got a whole pack in."
NFL Network also showed a tape of Manning doing a tango in middle school, something he referenced as the most nervous moment of his life. A girl in the play sold it after Manning told the story at a press conference last week.
"I wish I still had hips like that," Manning said.
Okay, I leave for Tokyo on vacation in the morning, I have a column to write before I go, and haven't started packing ... and I'm liveblogging an interview no one cares about.
