THIBODEAUX, La. -- In the middle of a sweltering August day in south Louisiana, Archibald "Arch" Manning, son of Cooper, grandson of Archie, nephew of Peyton and Eli, roams the fields of his ancestral homeland, the Manning Passing Academy, where quarterbacks are grown.
This is Year 29 of the MPA, and Arch's dad and uncles have been present for everyone, beginning when Cooper had just graduated from Ole Miss, Peyton was a freshman at Tennessee and Eli was a camper as a sophomore in high school.
Archie, the patriarch of football's first family, surveys 48 of the best college quarterbacks in America -- this year's counselors.