--- title: Peyton Manning and Magic Johnson Play Egg Russian Roulette description: The twist: eight of the dozen were hardboiled, but four of them were raw. canonical: https://time.com/4217286/peyton-manning-magic-johnson-play-egg-russian-roulette/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-11T16:15:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:29:57.795Z og:title: Watch Peyton Manning and Magic Johnson Smash Eggs on Their Heads og:description: They were left with egg on their faces, literally og:url: https://time.com/4217286/peyton-manning-magic-johnson-play-egg-russian-roulette/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Peyton Manning and Magic Johnson Smash Eggs on Their Heads twitter:description: They were left with egg on their faces, literally twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Peyton Manning and Magic Johnson Smash Raw Eggs on Their Heads > Sponsored content. 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Host Jimmy Fallon pitted the two star athletes against each other in a game that involved taking turns choosing an egg out of a carton and then smashing it over their heads. The twist: eight of the dozen were hardboiled, but four of them were raw. **Read More:** [Watch Zac Efron Play Egg Roulette with Jimmy Fallon](http://time.com/4001282/jimmy-fallon-zac-efron-egg-roulette/) “I had dreams growing up of being able to play Magic one-on-one someday,” Manning said. “I never thought it’d be in Russian egg roulette.” Watch the full clip above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4217286/peyton-manning-magic-johnson-play-egg-russian-roulette/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4217286/peyton-manning-magic-johnson-play-egg-russian-roulette/"},"headline":"Watch Peyton Manning and Magic Johnson Smash Raw Eggs on Their Heads","datePublished":"2016-02-11T16:15:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:29:57.795Z","description":"They were left with egg on their faces, literally","url":"https://time.com/4217286/peyton-manning-magic-johnson-play-egg-russian-roulette/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Athletes","jimmy fallon","Peyton Manning","TV","magic johnson","The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4217286/peyton-manning-magic-johnson-play-egg-russian-roulette/","name":"Watch Peyton Manning and Magic Johnson Smash Raw Eggs on Their Heads"}}]}] ```