Manningcast

Monday Night Football with Peyton and Eli, colloquially known as the Manningcast, is an American alternate live television broadcast of Monday Night Football hosted by brothers Peyton and Eli Manning, both former quarterbacks from the National Football League. It is produced by Peyton's production company Omaha Productions. The broadcasts air on ESPN2 and ESPN+ in the United States and TSN+ in Canada.

History
On July 19, 2021, ESPN announced that Peyton and Eli Manning would host an alternate presentation of Monday Night Football. The deal signed by ESPN and Omaha Productions (which produced the ESPN+ series Peyton's Places) was for three seasons and called for ten games each year. For the 2021 season, it was announced that the presentation would air for the first three weeks of the season (Ravens-Raiders, Lions-Packers and Eagles-Cowboys), with the final seven telecasts announced at a later date.

The first Manningcast aired on September 13, 2021, as an alternate presentation of the Monday Night Football game between the Las Vegas Raiders and Baltimore Ravens.

On November 13, 2021, ESPN announced that the presentation would also be offered for the network's Monday-night Wild Card Game during the 2021 playoffs. In February 2022, ESPN extended its contract through the 2024 NFL season, with Omaha Productions also slated to collaborate with ESPN on extending the format to other sports properties, such as college football, golf, and UFC events. The series received a Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Sports Series at the 43rd Sports Emmy Awards on May 24, 2022.

On April 10, 2024, ESPN further extended its contract with Omaha Productions until 2034.

Curse
During the 2021 season, a "curse" akin to the Madden curse began to develop upon players who made guest appearances on the broadcasts, with an observed pattern of players' teams losing the next week despite being favored to win.

The "curse" was broken in 2022, as all players that appeared on the Manningcast that season all won their next game. However, in 2023, the "curse" returned as all NFL players who appeared as guests, plus Golden State Warriors star Klay Thompson, saw their teams lose the next game. Another basketball player, Caitlin Clark, was not affected by the "curse"; her Iowa team was in the beginning of a 15-game winning streak at the time, with 14 of those wins coming after her appearance.

Adoption by other ESPN properties
Building upon the success of the Mannings' broadcasts, ESPN has since produced similar broadcasts for some of its other sports properties, some of which not involving the Mannings, but were still called Manningcasts: Some of these


 * During the 2022 NCAA Women's Final Four, ESPN2 aired an alternate broadcast known as The Bird & Taurasi Show, featuring basketball players Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi. ESPN has since employed the format for subsequent NCAA women's tournaments, and for an NBA Christmas game in 2023.
 * The "KayRod Cast" airs for selected Sunday Night Baseball games during the 2022 season, with Michael Kay and Alex Rodriguez.
 * Joe Buck and Michael Collins hosted a similar broadcast during each round of the 2022 PGA Championship, serving as the opening hour of coverage on ESPN before moving to ESPN2 (first and second rounds) or ESPN+ (third and final rounds) afterward. Joe Buck's long-time NFL commentary partner Troy Aikman, Charles Barkley, and the Mannings made guest appearances. The broadcasts marked Buck and Aikman's on-air debuts at ESPN, after moving from Fox Sports to serve as the new lead commentators for Monday Night Football (from 2015 to mid-2020, Buck served as the lead commentator for Fox's broadcasts of USGA tournaments). It was the first iteration of the format outside of Monday Night Football that was produced by Omaha.
 * In August 2022, it was announced that that the Mannings would produce alternate broadcasts for six college football games on ESPN2, with Pat McAfee as host.
 * ESPN's NBA broadcasts began producing an alternate presentation of select NBA games called "NBA in Stephen A's World" starting with the 2022–23 season, with Stephen A. Smith as host.
 * In June 2023, ESPN announced Omaha Productions will produce an alternate presentation of the three remaining 2023 FIA Formula One World Championship races airing in North America—Montreal, Austin, and Las Vegas—with Daniel Ricciardo and Will Arnett presenting. However, due to Ricciardo replacing Scuderia Alphatauri driver Nyck de Vries following the British Grand Prix, those broadcasts never came to fruition.

Reception
The format, as well as the brothers' chemistry, have received critical acclaim.

The Peyton & Eli broadcasts were parodied in the cold opening of Saturday Night Live's 48th season premiere on October 1, 2022, which portrayed the Mannings (played by host Miles Teller and Andrew Dismukes, respectively) commentating over a sketch themed around the FBI search of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home, with self-deprecating remarks acknowledging the major changes in cast which took effect that season.