University of Tennessee Athletics
Children's Hospital is Renamed for Manning
September 06, 2007 | Football
By Daniel Lee, E-mail
Peyton Manning played a starring role before playing even a single down this new NFL season.
The Colts quarterback -- along with wife Ashley, parents Archie and Olivia and many young patients wearing blue No. 18 jerseys -- crowded into the atrium of St. Vincent Children's Hospital for the announcement that the hospital would now be known as Peyton Manning Children's Hospital at St. Vincent.
The renaming grew out of the relationship St. Vincent has had with Manning dating to 1998, the year he was drafted. St. Vincent said the new name will prove to be a valuable tool to raise money and awareness across the state.
"I'm here today because Indiana is my wife, Ashley's, and my home," said Manning, 31, who high-fived young patients as he made his way to the podium.
"In the NFL, the name on the back of the jersey is emblematic of a player's commitment to contribute any way he can to the success of that team," he said. "For me having the name on the front of this building carries with it much the same: a weighty responsibility to contribute to the many victories ahead at St. Vincent's."
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