Archie Manning for those who saw him play

SC Saints Fan said

He had a big arm, but was very athletic, legitimate threat running. More so than either of his sons (sorta like Rogers). If they had thought about it more may have been a different type of attacking offense. But our teams were so ineptly run then we would have never figured it out.

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I was born in 76' and my first Saints teams of memory were the twilight of the Manning era and the brief and odd Stabler/Todd/Wilson era-- needless to say, I wish I could have seen Manning in his prime.

Anyway, to echo some of your sentiments -- I recently watched a couple of Manning era Saints games that I found on the web.
He was definetly a gifted athlete, but my lord, that man never had two full seconds in the pocket before he had to flee.
It's a shame because he really could have been something historically good if Mecom had put half a team around him.