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Eli Manning is back for more, but not because he enjoys his trips to Philadelphia so much.

The Giants’ veteran quarterback has played 16 games in the City of Brotherly Love — including the first of his NFL career and more than any other road city in the league — but that hasn’t made it any easier, and he picked it as the most challenging place to play.

“You go there, and that 9-year-old kid is giving you the double finger,” Manning told the crowd Wednesday during a Q&A hosted by NYIT Center for Sports Medicine/Head Injury Association, according to Newsday. “Not a thumbs-up. Not, ‘We’re No. 1.’ And he said something about my mom; I had to Google what it was. It’s just different. It’s a different culture.”

Since 2004, Manning and the Giants are 6-10 at Lincoln Financial Field. The 38-year-old has been around long enough that he joked he has seen generations, all of them treating him exactly the same.

“Now I see him and he’s got his 9-year-old kid with him,” Manning said with a smile. “Same deal. It runs in the families down there.”

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