Yahoo Sports Peyton and Eli Manning are Emmy winners after 1st season of ESPN's Manningcast
Finally, an accolade for Peyton and Eli Manning to share.
The sibling duo of NFL quarterbacks took home a Sports Emmy for Outstanding Live Series via ESPN's "Monday Night Football with Peyton & Eli," better known as the Manningcast, ESPN announced on Wednesday.
The win is ESPN's first in the Outstanding Live Series category since 2003, when it won for "Monday Night Football." NBC's "Sunday Night Football" had dominated the award since the network got the rights, winning 11 of 13 trophies since 2009.
ESPN announced it won a total of 11 awards Wednesday night, including Outstanding Documentary Series for "Man in the Arena: Tom Brady" and Outstanding Journalism for E60's “Alive: The Drew Robinson Story.”
ESPN's Manningcast was something new
The first season of the Manningcast, featuring the brothers watching the game at home while reacting, analyzing and bantering between themselves and a string of high-profile guests, proved to be a runaway success on social media.
The production basically consisted of parking a camera in front of each brother in their basements at home, but regularly saw viral moments (some regrettable) and represented a rare innovation in the world of NFL broadcasts. While the ratings slipped in later weeks, ESPN was happy enough with its secondary broadcast it has already tried to copy it in other sports, including baseball (Alex Rodriguez and Michael Kay) and golf (Joe Buck).
The show now figures to enter its second season opposite ESPN's revamped (read: poached from Fox Sports) Monday Night booth of Buck and Troy Aikman. You can probably bet on one of the trophies, if not both, occupying the background at one point.
