It’s Christmas at the Manning house, a stately, foursquare affair with gray shutters and an immaculately trimmed lawn nestled among the live oaks, double porches, and Greek Revival columns of fashionable Uptown New Orleans. The year is 2018. Arch Manning is fourteen years old, on the brink of becoming the country’s most heralded high school football player and one of the most anticipated athletes in American history. He lives here with his parents, brother, and sister. Though he has one of the most famous last names in all of sports, the larger world does not know him. Not quite yet.

The living room—a comfortable space where Arch has launched thousands of ten-yard passes—is the setting tonight for a nationally televised segment hosted by Arch’s father, Cooper, on Fox’s NFL pregame cover

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