Hey, it's Pablo here.

I just wanted to let you know that this episode contains discussion of a suicide.

So if you just had to bullet point, right, for those who are not so familiar, with just the highlights of Archie Manning's football career.

What would those highlights be?

The second ever primetime football game, and it was the first one that was really a big deal, was 1969, O'Niss and Alabama.

Wright Thompson is a native son of Mississippi

and his feature, The Inheritance of Archie Manning,

is on ESPN Plus today.

And Archie had 540 yards of total offense

in a losing effort, which feels sort of perfect.

And he became a folk hero.

My friend David Swider, who owns the End of All Music record store in Oxford, is actually

working on an album that is a collection of all of the folk country and bluegrass ballads that were written

about Archie Manning in 1969 and 1970.

There's a difference between famous and beloved. And, you know, they were literally writing songs about Archie.

He's snapped to Archie, the down it is the last,

he throws it to the end zone, another cut down pass.

He's been famous for 51 years, and it's pretty interesting.

And one of the things the piece gets into is he is at once the most accessible person in American

sports, and yet there also is this part of him that remains private and unknowable.

And that was really interesting to me, but the duality of that.

Archie Manning should run for president. He wears that number 18 for the big manning. Maybe most widely known as the father to NFL quarterbacks,

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