![New Orleans Saints QB Archie Manning and Family A 1981 family portrait shows New Orleans Saints quarterback Archie Manning, center, with wife Olivia and sons, from left, Eli, Cooper, and Peyton at their home in New Orleans.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/peyton-manning-nfl-football-early-career-01.jpg?quality=85&w=2400)
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![New Orleans Saints QB Archie Manning and Family A 1981 family portrait shows New Orleans Saints quarterback Archie Manning, center, with wife Olivia and sons, from left, Eli, Cooper, and Peyton at their home in New Orleans.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/peyton-manning-nfl-football-early-career-01.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Manning Family The Manning family poses for a portrait on University of Mississippi campus in 1993. From left, Cooper Manning, Peyton Manning, Eli Manning, Olivia Manning and Archie Manning.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/peyton-manning-nfl-football-early-career-03.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Isidore Newman School QB Peyton Manning A 1993 photo shows Peyton Manning in action as quarterback for Isidore Newman School in New Orleans.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/peyton-manning-nfl-football-early-career-11.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Tennessee Volunteers Peyton Manning played quarterback in college football with the Tennessee Volunteers, seen here in the locker room circa 1995 in Knoxville, Tenn.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/peyton-manning-nfl-football-early-career-06.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Tennessee QB Peyton Manning Tennessee QB Peyton Manning](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/peyton-manning-nfl-football-early-career-04.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![University of Tennessee QB Peyton Manning and Family From front left, Peyton Manning poses for a portrait with brother Cooper, mother Olivia, father Archie and brother Eli at their home in New Orleans in July 1996.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/peyton-manning-nfl-football-early-career-05.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![1998 NFL Draft Peyton Manning was selected as the first overall draft pick by the Indianapolis Colts on April 18, 1998. He is introduced by NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue at the 1998 NFL Draft in New York.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/peyton-manning-nfl-football-early-career-07.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Eli, Peyton, and Archie Manning, 2002 Manning Passing Academy From left, Mississippi quarterback Eli Manning, Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning, and former New Orleans Saints quarterback Archie Manning run a practice drill for high school quarterbacks at the Manning Passing Academy in Hammond, La. in 2002.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/peyton-manning-nfl-football-early-career-08.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Manning Family, 2003 Manning Passing Academy The Mannings pose for a portrait at the Manning Passing Academy in 2003. Clockwise from top left are Archie, Eli, Peyton and Cooper.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/peyton-manning-nfl-football-early-career-09.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Sporting News Archive The Mannings pose for a portrait in 2004. From left are Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning, former New Orleans Saints quarterback Archie Manning and New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/peyton-manning-nfl-football-early-career-10.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
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