Eli Manning Finally Joins Twitter Post-Retirement and Gets Playfully Roasted by Tom Brady

Tom Brady helped welcome Eli Manning to Twitter with a hilarious back-and-forth about Manning's history of "late arrivals," and fans loved every bit of it.

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Eli and Brady

Eli Manning just made his grand arrival to Twitter and received a hilarious welcome from Tom Brady and the timeline. 

The retired New York Giants QB made his inaugural tweet on Saturday afternoon, tweeting: "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."

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

Of course, Tom Brady took advantage of the moment to poke fun at his friend.

Welcome @EliManning, In typical fashion, you never showed up until the 4th quarter anyway đŸ˜œ https://t.co/Wbun1VS2A0

— Tom Brady (@TomBrady) May 23, 2020

Brady is specifically referencing Super Bowl XLII and Super Bowl XLVI here, where the Giants trailed in the final quarter to Brady's Patriots, but Manning led the charge to win his two championship rings.  Manning didn't take the playful jab sitting down though, quickly learning how to use Twitter's quote-tweet function to respond to Brady.

Hope your golf game is as polished as your Twitter game. Don’t hit it in the lumberyard. https://t.co/SaPL34P2T2

— Eli Manning (@EliManning) May 23, 2020

The exchange was hilarious, and the Twitter timeline is happy to see that Manning has finally joined its ranks. Check out Manning receiving a true champion's welcome to social media and some of the best responses to the back-and-forth down below. 

Hey Twitter,

If you are going to say his name, say his name right....

That's 2X Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning... pic.twitter.com/QTPDyuXx5c

— Harold (@cheftommyt99) May 23, 2020

Welcome pic.twitter.com/SNFindFKio

— Cameron Magruder (@ScooterMagruder) May 23, 2020

Welcome! Gonna leave this here for you, E pic.twitter.com/FGymtG8kM5

— Clem (@TheClemReport) May 23, 2020

Eli improves to 3-0 over Tom

— Brendan (@bshan23) May 23, 2020

Eli Manning like pic.twitter.com/BDfDpoZ5mv

— Jacob Roberts (@j_rob679) May 23, 2020

 

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