Congrats to the INDIANAPOLIS COLTS!!!
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Congrats to the INDIANAPOLIS COLTS!!!
Winners of Super Bowl XLI - WOOOHOOO!!!!
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Greensprings Kennel
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WOO HOO
Amen to the about time! It may not have been pretty but by granny we got it!!!!
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It was a GREAT game!!!
I'm going to stay up watching the festivities on TV most of the night.
I'm going to stay up watching the festivities on TV most of the night.
* I enjoy meeting new Beaglers & Squirrel Dog Owners. It's a blessing to find other's with such unique interests.
* I also enjoy helping future hunters.
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* I also enjoy helping future hunters.
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Go Colts
GO COLTS.........Manning can win the big one!
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I am sure all you Colts fans are thankin Lovie for standing by his man, and making a nice fruit cake to send to sexy Rexy. 
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BEING THAT I'M FROM MISSISSIPPI(CARTHAGE)20 MILES FROM WHERE PEYTON'S MOTHER IS FROM(PHILADELPHIA)
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Sid Williams (left) and his son, John, dust off Peyton Manning's autographed Indianapolis Colts jersey and one worn by Peyton's younger brother, Eli, the starting quarterback for the New York Giants. The brothers spent summers with their grandparents at Williams Brothers store.
PHILADELPHIA — One hundred years ago, two brothers opened a general store here.
As the town around it grew and changed, Williams Brothers grocery thrived.
In the 1980s and '90s, three boys named Manning played in the aisles of the family business, bagged groceries and learned to drive grandpa Cooper Williams' pickup in a cow pasture nearby.
This piece of small-town life is news because today, the middle Manning, a feisty young man named Peyton with a load of talent and a drive to match, will play a game of football - the Super Bowl in Miami - that will be watched by tens of millions of people.
That includes uncle Sid Williams, grandson of one of the store's founders and brother of Olivia Williams Manning, who married a gifted young man named Archie decades ago and gave birth to three boys: Cooper, Peyton and Eli.
"Their granddad and grandmother were the biggest fans they ever had," Williams said.
From the beginning, all three boys showed clear talent. That is not surprising, perhaps, given that their dad, Archie Manning, was a revered University of Mississippi football star who later played for the New Orleans Saints.
And their mom's side of the family - the side that still owns and operates the Philadelphia grocery store - isn't half bad when it comes to sports, either. Many played college ball of one sort or another.
Cooper was a receiver who attended Ole Miss, where his career was cut short because of a back problem.
Vickie D. King/The Clarion-Ledger
Before chanting "cut that meat" in his popular MasterCard commercial, Peyton Manning cut that meat at Williams Brothers grocery in Philadelphia.
Eli went to Ole Miss, too, where he broke lots of his dad's records before joining the New York Giants in 2004.
And then there's Peyton, a star quarterback with the National Football League's Indianapolis Colts, who play the Chicago Bears today, starting at 5:25 p.m. He's great, no one denies - even the folks who give him grief for never winning the "big one."
"We made a drop-back passer out of him," Williams said of his side of the family. "Everybody says he's a step or two slower than Archie, so that's what we did. We made him slower."
They also helped make him a genuinely nice guy, said people who have worked at Williams Brothers for decades and saw the boys grow up.
Though all three boys were raised in New Orleans, they spent parts of their summers at the grocery store, bagging groceries and helping out.
R.L. Pickens, 53, who has worked at the store for 30 years, remembers teaching the boys to stack the shelves.
"I been learning everybody how to stack groceries around here," he said with a laugh.
Ronnie Jenkins, 55, who has been at the store four years but grew up across the street from their mother's house in Philadelphia, called the Mannings "fine boys."
"If you ever saw an all-American family, they were it," he said. "As humble as can be."
Betty Robertson, who has clerked at the store for 20 years, said she gets a kick out of telling people that Peyton Manning used to bag groceries for her.
Longtime customers have their memories, too.
"To me, they were just normal boys, good-natured," said H.G. Glen Waddell, who served as Neshoba County's sheriff from 1984 to 2004 and is a regular Williams Brothers customer. "They had a little bit of country in them, a little bit of the city."
All around the store, there is evidence of the boys.
By the front door, there are pictures of Cooper, Peyton and Eli. They're playing football, posing in their jerseys. There's even one of Peyton a couple years ago, pretending to slice up a slab of bacon at the store.
There are signed jerseys all around, too. Hanging near the front door is one of Peyton's college jerseys from the University of Tennessee.
It was a gift to his grandfather, Cooper Williams, who died four years ago.
"Papa," Peyton wrote on it, "you taught me everything I knew. Love, Peyton."
Sid Williams said he once had a conversation with Cooper about the possibility of selling that jersey some day.
"He said, 'You better not take any amount of money for that jersey,'" Williams said.
He and the store have been taking in lots of money on unsigned Colts jerseys, though.
"You see all these up here of Eli's?" Williams said, gesturing to a wall full of Giants jerseys. "Eli's, they've kind of slowed down."
Then he pointed to an empty wall.
"But Peyton's, see that wall over there? That was all Peyton's. They've been selling really good."
Super Bowl hats are selling like crazy, too. They had four dozen of them Tuesday, and there were just two left by Wednesday morning, when a new shipment of Super Bowl T-shirts had just arrived.
Jane Crosswhite, the Mannings' cousin and part owner of the store, said she pays no mind to Peyton's critics and said his grandfather wouldn't have either.
"Mr. Cooper always told me that you'd better watch out for Eli because he had such talent," she said. "But Peyton would be the one to go further because he worked so hard."
And anyway, she said, the family business always will be there should the football thing not work out.
"Sid always told him if he couldn't make it as a quarterback, there's always a job for him slicing bacon," she said.
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs. ... 7702040370
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs. ... 7702040370
Related Items:
Gallery: The Manning connection in Mississippi
Expanded coverage: Super Bowl XLI
Rick Cleveland blogs from Miami
How a small-town grocery helped shape Colts' QB Manning
By Richard Lake
rlake@clarionledger.com
Vickie D. King/The Clarion-Ledger
Sid Williams (left) and his son, John, dust off Peyton Manning's autographed Indianapolis Colts jersey and one worn by Peyton's younger brother, Eli, the starting quarterback for the New York Giants. The brothers spent summers with their grandparents at Williams Brothers store.
PHILADELPHIA — One hundred years ago, two brothers opened a general store here.
As the town around it grew and changed, Williams Brothers grocery thrived.
In the 1980s and '90s, three boys named Manning played in the aisles of the family business, bagged groceries and learned to drive grandpa Cooper Williams' pickup in a cow pasture nearby.
This piece of small-town life is news because today, the middle Manning, a feisty young man named Peyton with a load of talent and a drive to match, will play a game of football - the Super Bowl in Miami - that will be watched by tens of millions of people.
That includes uncle Sid Williams, grandson of one of the store's founders and brother of Olivia Williams Manning, who married a gifted young man named Archie decades ago and gave birth to three boys: Cooper, Peyton and Eli.
"Their granddad and grandmother were the biggest fans they ever had," Williams said.
From the beginning, all three boys showed clear talent. That is not surprising, perhaps, given that their dad, Archie Manning, was a revered University of Mississippi football star who later played for the New Orleans Saints.
And their mom's side of the family - the side that still owns and operates the Philadelphia grocery store - isn't half bad when it comes to sports, either. Many played college ball of one sort or another.
Cooper was a receiver who attended Ole Miss, where his career was cut short because of a back problem.
Vickie D. King/The Clarion-Ledger
Before chanting "cut that meat" in his popular MasterCard commercial, Peyton Manning cut that meat at Williams Brothers grocery in Philadelphia.
Eli went to Ole Miss, too, where he broke lots of his dad's records before joining the New York Giants in 2004.
And then there's Peyton, a star quarterback with the National Football League's Indianapolis Colts, who play the Chicago Bears today, starting at 5:25 p.m. He's great, no one denies - even the folks who give him grief for never winning the "big one."
"We made a drop-back passer out of him," Williams said of his side of the family. "Everybody says he's a step or two slower than Archie, so that's what we did. We made him slower."
They also helped make him a genuinely nice guy, said people who have worked at Williams Brothers for decades and saw the boys grow up.
Though all three boys were raised in New Orleans, they spent parts of their summers at the grocery store, bagging groceries and helping out.
R.L. Pickens, 53, who has worked at the store for 30 years, remembers teaching the boys to stack the shelves.
"I been learning everybody how to stack groceries around here," he said with a laugh.
Ronnie Jenkins, 55, who has been at the store four years but grew up across the street from their mother's house in Philadelphia, called the Mannings "fine boys."
"If you ever saw an all-American family, they were it," he said. "As humble as can be."
Betty Robertson, who has clerked at the store for 20 years, said she gets a kick out of telling people that Peyton Manning used to bag groceries for her.
Longtime customers have their memories, too.
"To me, they were just normal boys, good-natured," said H.G. Glen Waddell, who served as Neshoba County's sheriff from 1984 to 2004 and is a regular Williams Brothers customer. "They had a little bit of country in them, a little bit of the city."
All around the store, there is evidence of the boys.
By the front door, there are pictures of Cooper, Peyton and Eli. They're playing football, posing in their jerseys. There's even one of Peyton a couple years ago, pretending to slice up a slab of bacon at the store.
There are signed jerseys all around, too. Hanging near the front door is one of Peyton's college jerseys from the University of Tennessee.
It was a gift to his grandfather, Cooper Williams, who died four years ago.
"Papa," Peyton wrote on it, "you taught me everything I knew. Love, Peyton."
Sid Williams said he once had a conversation with Cooper about the possibility of selling that jersey some day.
"He said, 'You better not take any amount of money for that jersey,'" Williams said.
He and the store have been taking in lots of money on unsigned Colts jerseys, though.
"You see all these up here of Eli's?" Williams said, gesturing to a wall full of Giants jerseys. "Eli's, they've kind of slowed down."
Then he pointed to an empty wall.
"But Peyton's, see that wall over there? That was all Peyton's. They've been selling really good."
Super Bowl hats are selling like crazy, too. They had four dozen of them Tuesday, and there were just two left by Wednesday morning, when a new shipment of Super Bowl T-shirts had just arrived.
Jane Crosswhite, the Mannings' cousin and part owner of the store, said she pays no mind to Peyton's critics and said his grandfather wouldn't have either.
"Mr. Cooper always told me that you'd better watch out for Eli because he had such talent," she said. "But Peyton would be the one to go further because he worked so hard."
And anyway, she said, the family business always will be there should the football thing not work out.
"Sid always told him if he couldn't make it as a quarterback, there's always a job for him slicing bacon," she said.
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