Sports Illustrated Kids - USA (2022-01 & 2022-02)

ILLUSTRATION BY TIM MCDONAGH; PETER READ MILLER

(MANNING); MANNY MILLAN (BRYANT); DENIS BRODEUR/NHLI/

GETTY IMAGES (HAWERCHUK); ERICK W. RASCO (TEIXEIRA)

Not every kid becomes a local

legend. After all, the Joker is

from Gotham City, too.

Philadelphia

Philadelphians don’t

anyone. The town
that infamously
jeered Santa Claus
at an Eagles game
in 1 968 showed no
mercy to the native
son who had brought a
state championship to local
Lower Merion High School. At the 2002
All-Star Game in Philly, the crowd booed
Bryant every time he touched the ball.
It didn’t stop him from winning game
MVP, but he admitted during an in-game
interview, “My feelings are hurt, being
from Philadelphia.” In his final game in
Philly in ’ 1 5, however, the home crowd
showed Bryant how they really felt with
a standing ovation.

DALE HAWERCHUK

Toronto

No metro area produces NHLers quite

like Toronto. That leads to Maple Leafs

born stars back home—

and complaining when

they play well against

their childhood team.

The highest-scoring

NHLer born in the

city of Toronto was

Hawerchuk, with

1 , 4 09 points. And even

among Torontonians, he

the Leafs. He scored 72 points

in 4 6 games against Toronto,

including a five-point performance at

Maple Leaf Gardens as an 1 8-year-old

Winnipeg Jets rookie in 1982.

MARK TEIXEIRA

Baltimore

When first baseman

Teixeira reached free

to take less money to play for

a team coming off 11 straight

Yards, who booed him mercilessly

during the ’09 season. It didn’t seem

to bother Teixeira, who led the league

in homers as the Yanks went on to

win the World Series.

PEYTON

MANNING

New Orleans

While he’s the

first. Dad Archie played most
famously for Ole Miss and the
New Orleans Saints. That gave
Peyton, who played high school ball
at New Orleans’s Isidore Newman,
plenty of connections to the
Deep South. But Peyton forged
his own path in football, beating
Ole Miss twice as Tennessee’s QB
before getting drafted by the Colts.
In his NFL career, he had a higher
passer rating ( 12 1.0) against the
Saints than any other opponent,
but lost to them in Super Bowl XLIV.