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Do It This Way! No, This Way!

By David Fleming

Friday, September 26, 2008

The 12th annual Manning Passing Academy has kicked off in grand fashion inside the student union at Nicholls State, in Thibodaux, La. There's a cauldron of jambalaya, a table of Manning merchandise and a wicked seven-piece zydeco band accompanied by a kid in a blue Colts jersey playing the tin washboard. It's mid-July, and the heat could melt the Lombardi Trophy. Yet more than 1,200 kids from all over the country have traveled to Louisiana swampland, paying as much as $495 for three days of QB 1 ...

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