But like the San Diego Chargers, who fell to Manning’s Denver Broncos on Sunday, no one knew what the quarterback meant as he yelled out “Omaha” a total of 44 times during the game. The mystery surrounding his pre-snap diction grew so great that Manning was forced to address the matter during a news conference Wednesday.
One reporter succumbed to his curiosity and asked Manning about the meaning of “Omaha.”
“Is that like a fan written-in question?,” Manning joked. “I’m not sure. I don’t know how to answer that.”
The signal-caller wasn’t going to leave everyone hanging, though — not yet, anyway. Manning expanded on his answer and provided zero clarity whatsoever as he kept football’s greatest secret safe.
“I know a lot of people ask what Omaha means,” Manning continued, “and it’s — Omaha is a run play, but it could be a pass play or a play-action pass depending on a couple things: when, which way we’re going, the quarter and the jerseys that we’re wearing. So it varies, really, play to play, so, that’s — there’s your answer to that one.”
There you have it, New England Patriots.