{"title":"Eli Manning Card and Memorabilia Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003eEli Manning is a former NFL quarterback best known for his years as a Giants signal caller, and he remains one of the more collected quarterbacks from the 2000s rookie class onward. His cards span rookie issues through later releases, giving collectors multiple eras and brands to chase.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection includes a range of graded rookie cards, such as a PSA 10 2004 Fleer Tradition rookie and a PSA Authentic autographed 2004 Upper Deck NFL Players Rookie Premier card, alongside later graded issues like the 2012 Panini Prizm and 2022 Panini Mosaic Genesis cards, both PSA 10 Gem Mint. There is also a signed Beckett price guide featuring Manning's autograph. Buyers should check grading labels closely, note the card set and number, and confirm the autograph type where applicable.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"graded-2004-fleer-tradition-eli-manning-331-rookie-rc-football-card-psa-10-gem-mint","title":"Graded PSA 10 Gem Mint Eli Manning 2004 Fleer Tradition #331 Rookie RC Football Card","description":"\u003cp\u003e🏈 \u003cstrong\u003eGraded PSA 10 Gem Mint Eli Manning 2004 Fleer Tradition #331 Rookie RC Football Card — New Orleans, Louisiana — Manning Family — University of Mississippi Ole Miss — New York Giants — 2x Super Bowl MVP — Super Bowl XLII \u0026amp; XLVI — The Manning Legacy in Blue — 2004 Fleer Tradition Last Era — PSA 10 Gem Mint — The Rookie Card for One of the Greatest Super Bowl Performers in NFL History\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏈 This is a 2004 Fleer Tradition #331 Eli Manning Rookie Card graded PSA 10 Gem Mint by Professional Sports Authenticator — the highest grade in the hobby, awarded to cards with perfect centering, four razor-sharp corners, clean edges, and a surface that shows none of the marks, scratches, or print imperfections that lower the grade of every card that falls short of perfection. The 2004 Fleer Tradition #331 is the flagship rookie card for Eli Manning in the Fleer line — issued in one of the final sets Fleer Tradition would ever produce before the Fleer company ceased operations in 2005, giving this card an additional layer of collectible significance as a piece from the final chapter of one of the most iconic trading card brands in the history of the hobby. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🌟 \u003cstrong\u003eNew Orleans, Louisiana — The Third Manning\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🌟 Eli Manning was born on January 3, 1981, in New Orleans, Louisiana — the third son of Archie Manning, the New Orleans Saints quarterback who played through one of the most difficult franchise situations in the history of professional football with grace and competitive dignity, and the younger brother of Peyton Manning, who was already establishing himself as one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time in Indianapolis when Eli entered the 2004 NFL Draft. He played his college football at the University of Mississippi — Ole Miss — where he led the Rebels and built the quarterback statistical career that made him the consensus top talent at the position in the 2004 class. His insistence that he preferred not to play for the San Diego Chargers, who held the #1 overall pick, set up one of the most significant draft-day trades in NFL history — the deal that sent him to New York. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏆 \u003cstrong\u003eSuper Bowl XLII — The Upset of the Century\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏆 Eli Manning's first Super Bowl championship came in Super Bowl XLII on February 3, 2008, when the New York Giants defeated the New England Patriots 17-14 in one of the most stunning upsets in the history of the event. The 2007 New England Patriots had gone 16-0 in the regular season and were favored to complete the first undefeated season in the modern NFL era. The Giants, who had finished the regular season 10-6, won three road games to reach the Super Bowl and then defeated a Patriots team that had arguably the greatest regular-season offense in NFL history. Manning's fourth-quarter escape from a four-man pass rush — the play that preceded the 'Helmet Catch' by David Tyree — is one of the most replayed moments in Super Bowl history. He was named Super Bowl MVP. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⭐ \u003cstrong\u003eSuper Bowl XLVI — The Second Ring Against the Patriots\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⭐ Four years later, in Super Bowl XLVI on February 5, 2012, Eli Manning did it again — defeating the New England Patriots 21-17 in Indianapolis and winning his second Super Bowl MVP award. Two Super Bowl MVP awards against the same opponent, separated by four years, is a distinction that belongs to Manning alone in the history of the game. His ability to perform at the highest level in the biggest moments — the extended drive, the late-game scramble, the precision throw under pressure — made him the definitive Super Bowl-era Giants quarterback and one of the most clutch players in the history of the NFL postseason. A PSA 10 Eli Manning rookie card carries the full weight of both championship rings. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏈 \u003cstrong\u003e2004 Fleer Tradition — The Final Chapter of a Legendary Brand\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏈 Fleer Corporation was one of the oldest trading card companies in American sports, producing baseball cards since 1960 and football cards across multiple formats through the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The 2004 Fleer Tradition set was issued in the final active year of Fleer's production before the company entered bankruptcy proceedings in 2005, making the 2004 products among the last cards ever released under the historic Fleer name. An Eli Manning #331 PSA 10 from the 2004 Fleer Tradition set is therefore both a championship quarterback rookie card and a piece from the final production era of one of the hobby's most storied brands. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏈🌟 Eli Manning. New Orleans, Louisiana. Ole Miss Rebels. New York Giants. 4x Pro Bowl. Super Bowl XLII MVP. Super Bowl XLVI MVP. Two-time Super Bowl champion over the New England Patriots. 2004 Fleer Tradition #331 Rookie RC graded PSA 10 Gem Mint. 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Prizm had launched in basketball the previous year and had immediately established itself as a collector phenomenon — a chromium-based product with a silver refractor base and an elaborately layered parallel rainbow structure that the hobby had never quite seen executed at that level. When Panini brought Prizm to football in 2012, they were extending a brand identity that would go on to become one of the most dominant and widely recognized names in modern sports cards. Cards from that 2012 inaugural football Prizm release carry a historical significance that transcends their individual subjects: they are artifacts from the birth year of a product line that reshaped the modern card hobby.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏈 Eli Manning was born on January 3, 1984, in New Orleans, Louisiana — the third son of Archie Manning, the Ole Miss and New Orleans Saints quarterback who became one of the most beloved figures in the history of his home state. Eli grew up in a household where football was the family language: his older brother Cooper was a standout high school receiver before a spinal condition ended his playing career, and his brother Peyton was developing in parallel into the quarterback who would eventually win two Super Bowls of his own and become one of the most celebrated players the game has ever produced. For Eli, the path led to Oxford and the University of Mississippi — Ole Miss, his father's school, the campus where Archie Manning had built his legend — and then to the 2004 NFL Draft.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏈 The 2004 Draft produced one of the most famous transactions in NFL history. The San Diego Chargers held the first overall pick and selected Manning — then immediately executed a trade with the New York Giants that sent Manning to New York in exchange for Philip Rivers (the Giants' fourth overall pick) and additional selections. The Giants got their franchise quarterback. The Chargers got their franchise quarterback. Both moves would look intelligent in the years that followed: Rivers went on to a Hall of Fame career in San Diego and Los Angeles, and Manning went on to win two Super Bowls in New York, becoming the only player in NFL history at that point to beat the New England Patriots in a Super Bowl on two separate occasions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏈 The first championship came in February 2008 — Super Bowl XLII in Glendale, Arizona. The New England Patriots entered the game at 18-0, having posted one of the greatest regular seasons in NFL history, with Tom Brady setting the single-season touchdown record and the team widely regarded as among the best in the sport's history. Manning led the Giants to a 17-14 upset that ended the Patriots' perfect season — and the drive that produced the winning touchdown included the most celebrated play in Super Bowl history: the \"Helmet Catch,\" in which Manning escaped a collapsing pocket by spinning free of multiple pass-rushers, launched a deep ball downfield, and connected with receiver David Tyree, who pinned the ball against his helmet with one hand while being tackled and somehow maintained possession long enough to complete a 32-yard reception. Manning was named Super Bowl MVP.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏈 The second championship came in February 2012 — Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis — again against the New England Patriots, with Manning directing another fourth-quarter drive and the Giants winning 21-17 in a game that confirmed his status not as a one-game miracle but as a quarterback who could consistently perform at the highest level of his sport when everything was on the line. A second Super Bowl MVP. A second championship ring. A quarterback whose resume, evaluated on the games that defined eras rather than regular-season totals, stands among the most accomplished of his generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏈 The 2012 Panini Prizm Football set captures Manning at the exact moment of that second championship — the season immediately following Super Bowl XLVI, in the inaugural year of a product line that would define the modern card hobby. Card #124 places Manning in the base set checklist. The chromium base of the Prizm card gives the photography a brilliance and visual sharpness that standard cardboard cannot replicate — the surface catches light, displays well in any holder, and holds condition with the surface integrity that makes premium card care worthwhile.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏈 Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA) evaluated this card and awarded PSA 10 GEM MINT — the highest grade on PSA's scale, requiring four perfect corners, centering within the strictest published tolerances, and a surface completely free of scratches, print defects, or any creasing. For a chromium-surfaced card from 2012 — now more than a decade old — PSA 10 represents a copy that has been preserved in pristine condition across its entire lifespan. The inaugural Prizm football set combined with PSA's perfect grade makes this a piece of hobby history in the most literal sense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏈 Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏈 Eli Manning. New Orleans, Louisiana. University of Mississippi — Ole Miss. New York Giants Quarterback. 2004 NFL Draft 1st Overall Pick. 2x Super Bowl Champion (XLII, XLVI). 2x Super Bowl MVP. The Helmet Catch. Beat the 18-0 Patriots. 2012 Panini Prizm #124 Football Card — Inaugural Prizm Football Set. PSA 10 GEM MINT. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. 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Upper Deck has used the Rookie Premier event as the foundation for one of the hobby's most significant rookie autograph card concepts: cards bearing the authentic signatures of first-round quarterbacks who have just been drafted, produced in limited quantities, carrying the certification of the event itself as proof of authenticity. The #1 card position in the NFL Players Rookie Premier checklist going to Eli Manning in 2004 placed him at the first slot in the product's draft-class documentation, consistent with his #1 overall draft status. 🌟\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏈 Eli Manning arrived at the 2004 NFL Draft as the son of Archie Manning and the younger brother of Peyton Manning, two of the most respected names in the history of the quarterback position. The Manning family quarterbacks had built a dynasty of excellence at the position – Archie through NFL service despite playing for teams that gave him little surrounding support, Peyton through a career that was already establishing his legacy as one of the greatest quarterbacks in history by the time Eli entered the draft. Eli's own path validated the family legacy twice over. The San Diego Chargers selected him #1 overall and traded him that same day to the New York Giants for Phillip Rivers and draft compensation. The Manning era in New York began with that trade. ⭐\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏈 The PSA Authentic Auto certification on this Upper Deck Rookie Premier card provides Professional Sports Authenticator's verification of the Eli Manning autograph as genuine – PSA's forensic authentication process applied to confirm that the signature is Manning's own hand. The card's place in the hobby market is defined by both the event from which it comes and the career achievements that followed: two Super Bowl rings, both won against Tom Brady's New England Patriots teams, including the upset of the 18-0 Patriots in Super Bowl XLII that remains one of the most shocking upsets in NFL history. Two Finals MVPs. A career that ended in 2019 having delivered the Giants franchise its two most celebrated championship moments of the Super Bowl era. 🏆\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏈 Eli Manning. New York Giants. #1 Overall Pick. 2004 NFL Draft. San Diego Chargers Trade. 2x Super Bowl Champion. 2x Super Bowl MVP. Super Bowl XLII. Super Bowl XLVI. New England Patriots Upsets. Son of Archie Manning. Brother of Peyton Manning. 2004 Upper Deck. NFL Players Rookie Premier. Card #1. Authentic Autograph. PSA Authentic. Professional Sports Authenticator. Sports Memorabilia. Hall of Fame Sports. 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