Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Touching Me Too Many Ways Not To Link
Seriously, this story crosses my path more than my cat does on the way to the food dish in the morning.
The Mannings are good people in a way that few professional athletes can imagine. Their efforts in this situation are just typical, at least for them.
The name Manning is legendary in the city of New Orleans for two generations of football greats. Now those hometown heroes are doing what they can to help their friends, family and thousands of their longtime fans recover from Hurricane Katrina.Both Archie and Eli Manning played college ball at Ole Miss -- where I was born as both my parents attended there. Peyton plays for the Indianapolis Colts -- the city where I was raised. And then there was that time we were on the Ole Miss campus and gave a kid a ride to the Student Union and had a cup of coffee with him, only later to find out it was Archie.
The Mannings are good people in a way that few professional athletes can imagine. Their efforts in this situation are just typical, at least for them.
