Archie Manning

I love Archie. Back in the late 70's I saw him hurrying thru the back streets of downtown likely heading to a business meeting. An elderly couple saw him and stopped him. He spoke with them for about 5-10 minutes then he excused himself and hurried off again. I did not have the heart to stop and ask for an autograph. I thought is was classy for him to stop when he could have easily avoided the couple and now one would have know wider. I met him in the 90's (Eli was a senior in high school then) when he spoke at a local charity function. He is a class act all the way around.

One last funny story was Archie was visiting Eli in Oxford MS one day when a small boy knocked on Eli's door asking for him to autograph his football. The story goes, Archie answered the door and took the ball and boy inside where he had Eli sign the ball for the young boy. When the boy return to his dad, his dad asked was he able to get Eli's autograph, and the boy with a sad look on his face said yes, but some old guy signed it also. The old guy was Archie.