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Miles Teller will join Peyton and Eli for Eagles-Falcons
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Miles Teller will join Peyton and Eli for Eagles-Falcons

Peyton and Eli Manning welcome some Eagles fans to ESPN’s Manningcast tonight, when the Birds take on the Atlanta Falcons in their first home game at Lincoln Financial Field.

Miles Teller, born in Downington and best known for his roles in Top Gun: Maverick And whiplashwill join the Manning brothers’ alternative plan Monday night football airs tonight on ESPN2. It’s unclear when he’ll join the show, which begins at 8 p.m. Philly time.

Teller’s family moved frequently during his childhood, from Pennsylvania to Cape May and Delaware before settling in Florida during high school. Despite this, Teller remained a diehard Eagles fan and is often seen in the stands cheering on the Birds at Lincoln Financial Field. He was also a regular fixture in recent seasons at Citizens Bank Park during the Phillies’ last two playoff runs.

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“The most important criteria for the guest is that they have to love football,” Peyton recently told John Ourand on The university podcast. “If you’re going to have a celebrity come, it can’t just be to promote their new movie or book.”

One thing you can probably expect tonight is Teller busting out his Peyton impersonation, which he revealed in a sketch during the season premiere of Saturday Night Live last year.

Another guest tonight is former Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan, an Exton native and Penn Charter graduate who joined CBS this season as part of a revamped lineup at his The NFL Today pregame show. Former New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick will also be in attendance. He is filling his schedule this season with media appearances. Belichick is expected to be at each Manningcast aired this season and tonight he will be at the Linc as he joins the Manning brothers.

As for the Eagles, it will be the fifth time the Birds have taken the field. Manningcastwhich is in its fourth season with ESPN. Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts — who attended the Mannings’ quarterback camp as a sophomore at Alabama — was a guest in 2022, where he revealed he enjoyed watching game footage of former San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers and wore a hoodie with the phrase, “God bless whoever hating on me.”

The Manningcast is one of the most successful alternative NFL game broadcasts, regularly drawing around a million viewers (last week’s episode averaged just 872,000 viewers, but ESPN2 was also blocked on DirecTV due to a transmission dispute that was resolved Saturday). This year, the Manning brothers will perform during 10 Monday night football games and a wild-card game during the playoffs. Also, Super Bowl LXI will be called in 2027 and will air on ABC and ESPN.

Both Peyton and Eli are broadcasting remotely — Eli from the basement of his home in northern New Jersey, Peyton from a classic car garage in Denver owned by his friend Don Saba. Meanwhile, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman are in their third season together, broadcasting Monday night football on ESPN, which will also air tonight in Philadelphia on 6abc thanks to NFL rules requiring games to be televised locally. King of Prussia native Lisa Salters is also back for her 12th season as Monday Evening Football reporter on the sidelines, accompanied by NFL Live host Laura Rutledge.

There’s also former Eagles center Jason Kelce, who joined ESPN this season as a member of the Monday evening countdown pregame show, with host Scott Van Pelt and fellow analysts Ryan Clark and Marcus Spears. Kelce and co. will kick off tonight with Monday evening countdown at Xfinity Live! before moving to the sidelines at the Linc.

“If we all come out alive, I’ll consider it a victory,” Van Pelt told The Inquirer last month. “And if we don’t, then we’ll have come out on top.”

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Here is the full Manningcast Schedule for the remainder of Monday Night Football this season:

  1. Week 2: Falcons at Eagles (ESPN2)

  2. Week 5: Saints at Chiefs (ESPN2)

  3. Week 6: Accounts at Jets (ESPN2)

  4. Week 7: Ravens at Buccaneers (ESPN2, ESPN+) / Chargers at Cardinals (ESPN+)

  5. Week 8: Giants at Steelers (ESPN2, ESPN+)

  6. Week 9: Buccaneers at Chiefs (ESPN2, ESPN+)

  7. Week 11: Texans at Cowboys (ESPN2)

  8. Week 12: Ravens at Chargers (ESPN2)

  9. Week 14: Bengals at Cowboys (ESPN2, ESPN+)

  10. Wild-Card Weekend: TBA (ESPN2, ESPN+)