Peyton Manning visits Saints training camp

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WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Peyton Manning figured it has been 24 years since he last visited a New Orleans Saints training camp, back when his dad Archie was doing radio commentary for his hometown team.

But now that Manning is retired, he had time to go back to his roots.

Manning dropped by the Saints’ camp this weekend at The Greenbrier resort in West Virginia, where he was in town for a speaking engagement.

“I was thinking the last time I had been to a Saints training camp was, I want to say, the training camp going into my junior year in high school,” Manning said in a statement released by the Saints. “I can recall going out to practice, Jim Mora was the head coach, and I was with my dad, who was doing the Saints radio broadcasts at the time with Jim Henderson. I was getting ready to go to Newman High School summer practice and I was working out and I remember throwing pass patterns after practice with the local …

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