Antonio Gates
Recommendation To Manning After HOF Snub
… This is How I Dealt With It
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If Eli Manning wants some recommendation on how you can deal with a Corridor of Fame slight — Antonio Gates is providing it up!
The legendary Charger — who was inducted into the 2025 class final week after being snubbed for the 2024 one simply 12 months in the past — instructed TMZ Sports activities out on the Tremendous Bowl in New Orleans that whereas he is positive Eli’s feeling heartbreak proper now … the previous signal-caller simply wants to remain optimistic.
Gates instructed us that after he was shockingly barred from getting a bust in Canton … he headed into the following 12 months centered on being “the best version of me” — and he thinks that perspective helped him get on this go-around.
Gates additionally mentioned leaning on his religion actually did not damage, both.
Luckily for Manning, it appears he is already put among the ex-tight finish’s steerage into apply … as a result of after we caught up with him on Bourbon Avenue simply hours after the ’25 class was revealed, he did not appear to be sweating issues one bit.
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Eli, after all, could have one other go at issues in 2026 … and whereas the competitors is stiff — Larry Fitzgerald, Jason Witten and Drew Brees will all be eligible then — Gates and a host of others positive seem to assume he is in line to get the blissful name.
