POWERGEN International 2019

Archie Manning
Former American Football Quarterback



Manning, who lives in New Orleans, is active in a wide variety of charitable and civic causes. His community activities include Louisiana Special Olympics, the New Orleans Area Boy Scout Council, The Salvation Army, United Way Speakers Bureau, Allstate Sugar Bowl Committee, and the Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation. He is also Chairman of the Board of the National Football Foundation. Manning attended the University of Mississippi, where he was an All-American. He was voted Mississippi’s Greatest All-Time Athlete in 1992 and was named Mississippi’s Most Popular Athlete of the Century. In 1971, Manning was the second player chosen in the NFL draft—the number one draft choice of the New Orleans Saints. While in pro football, he received the Byron “Whizzer” White Humanitarian Award, the Bart Starr Humanitarian Award and the Spirit of Good Sports Award from the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. In 2016, Manning received one of the highest honors in football, the Gold Medal Award, presented by the National Football Foundation. He was the 63rd recipient of the Gold Medal Award, with past honorees including U.S. Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon and George H.W. Bush, as well as baseball immortal Jackie Robinson, acting legend John Wayne and pioneer astronaut and U.S. Sen. John Glenn

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