Steve Serby

Steve Serby

NFL

Eli shown up by brother Peyton in front of home crowd

It isn’t the Manning Bowl anymore for Eli Manning. It is the Moaning Bowl.

The scoreboard now reads Peyton Manning 3, Eli Manning 0 after the Broncos’ 41-23 mowing of the 0-2 Giants Sunday. And if you’re thinking about a potential Manning Bowl IV back in Super Bowl XLVIII back at Metlife Stadium, you’re probably wearing big blue-colored glasses.

Little Brother threw four interceptions, or four more than Big Brother threw, and that gives him seven for the season. Big Brother threw two touchdown passes Sunday, and that gives him nine for the season.

Archie Manning, the king of this royal football family, had just visited with Peyton and was on his way to console Eli when a small media horde intercepted him in a hallway outside the Giants locker room.

“He’ll hang tough, I promise you that,” Archie said of Eli. “He’ll hang tough. They all will — Tom Coughlin’s teams’ll hang tough. Not a good start, not the start you want, but … that’s football. It takes funny turns.”

Archie and wife Olivia grin and bear these Manning Bowls and root mostly for lots of offense.

“You don’t like it when one struggles a little bit there, “ Archie said.

There are two explanations for what happened: Peyton (30-43, 307 yards, no picks, no sacks) has a better team around him right now.

The Broncos (90 points in two games) have a better quarterback around them right now.

Eli’s offense, with David Wilson (7 rushes, 17 yards) worried mostly about holding onto the ball, is one-dimensional.

Peyton’s explosive offense is … 18-dimensional.

“My concerns are this team and getting back to winning right now,” Eli said.

What else did you expect him to say? “Now I got to listen to Peyton ride me the rest of my life?”

“I know he’s upset,” Justin Tuck told The Post. “Eli doesn’t want to lose in darts. He’s a very competitive guy, and I know he wants the bragging rights in the Manning household. But he still has one crutch. He still has an extra [Super Bowl] ring that he can fall back on.”

Peyton looks like he has a real chance to get his second, and in Eli’s backyard no less. Peyton can be patient but deadly. Peyton can probe a defense, play chess until he checkmates a defense. Peyton can put an inordinate amount of stress on a defense. Peyton can wear a defense down psychologically. Just try to sack him.

“I think a lot of times people, they play the myth, and not the man,” Tuck said. “Give him credit that he is an awesome football player and an awesome quarterback, but he’s human just like all the rest of us. I think a lot of times, honestly, teams can defeat themselves before they even play. I don’t think we did that, but you hear people talk about it as if he’s never lost a game, or he never threw an interception or turned the ball over. We had opportunities tonight, and we just didn’t capitalize.”

Eli, he can laugh in the face of danger. He can stay calm and see order where others see chaos. He can bring his team back in the fourth quarter. He can be the definition of clutch.

Just not when Big Brother is watching.

“We got to talk a little bit before the game and met up and just chatted for 10 minutes,” Eli said. “Nothing specific, just brotherly talk. After that, there wasn’t a whole lot of interaction.”

There wasn’t a whole lot of execution or efficiency from Eli and his offense. They failed to convert their first six third downs and were reminded after a 10-9 first half that you don’t beat Peyton Manning kicking field goals.

With 16 seconds left before halftime, from the Peyton 28, Eli looked deep right for Hakeem Nicks and was intercepted in the end zone by Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie.

“Just a bad decision by me,” Eli said. “They kind of had us in a little bind on a blitz. Trying to throw the ball away where you wouldn’t get an intentional grounding, but get it close, unfortunate that I just threw it in a spot where the guy could make a play.”

Eli wound up throwing three of his interceptions in the fourth quarter, one that deflected off the foot of one Bronco defensive back into the arms of another. Elite quarterbacks can’t throw seven interceptions in two games.

“Obviously that’s never a goal,” Eli said. “I like to, before the season, set goals for keeping interceptions in the single digits so, might have to start over from here on that aspect.”

Peyton’s QB rating: 105.5.

“It’s not quite as enjoyable as it would be if you were beating somebody else,” Peyton said.

Eli’s QB rating: 53.3.

Oh, brother.