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WHEN IT COMES TO BROTHERS IN SPORTS, WE'RE GOING WITH THE MANNINGS

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Today is Jordan Staal's birthday. Got us thinking: how underrated are the Staal brothers? Jordan is on a Penguins team which will probably win a Cup in the next few years; Eric already has a Cup with the Hurricanes; Marc is a two-time gold medalist in the World Junior Championships (for Canada) and Jared might have Gretzky as his coach someday. Given that our current issue has an in-depth feature on the Mannings, we thought it'd be a good time to rank brother combos in sport. Lo and behold, we're starting with the QBs.

TOP 5
RANK (YESTERDAY)		WHAT	WHY
	1 (14)	PEYTON AND ELI MANNING	They've won the last two Super Bowls. That's fairly incredible for one family. It's like a father and son both being Presi—
	2 (410)	BRUCE AND CLAY MATTHEWS	Both played 19 seasons in the NFL, remarkable in and of itself. Bruce: 14 Pro Bowls. Clay: 4 Pro Bowls. Not discussed nearly as much as other guys, but worthy.
	3 (21)	PHIL AND JOE NIEKRO	They get the nod over the Maddux boys here because each has at least 221 career wins, whereas Mike Maddux was 39-37 lifetime.
	4 (127)	MAURICE AND HENRI RICHARD	Maurice Richard has a league trophy named for him, and the league waived the three-year waiting period for the HOF when he retired. Henri? Dude won 11 Stanley Cups; only Bill Russell comes close to that many titles in modern professional North American sports.
	5 (899)	BOBBY AND DENNIS HULL	The hockey love continues. Bobby: 610 goals, possibly one of the five best players in NHL history. Dennis: less-discussed, but a still dominant 303 career goals.

HONORABLE MENTION
RANK (YESTERDAY)		WHAT	WHY
	18 (144)	DOMINIQUE AND GERALD WILKINS	Dominique was the star and Gerald was more the 'consistent brother,' but between 'em they do have over 38,000 career points, which is pretty impressive.
	28 (701)	THE SUTTER BROTHERS	Get the nod here on volume alone: there were six of 'em. It's a nice bar trivia trick to get people to name them all; if you ever find a person who can name all six Sutters and all seven Dwarves, marry them.

RISING AND FALLING
MOVEMENT		WHAT
		THE SEDIN TWINS (That commercial is hysterical.)
		THE WILLIAMS SISTERS (Probably the greatest sibling combo ever, but we said brothers. Ah, semantics.)

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