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Anne Morvant returned to her hometown of Thibodaux to visit her parents and this year’s visit just happens to coincide with the Manning Passing Academy held at Nicholls State University.
“I’m not just a Peyton Manning fan,” Morvant, 44, said of the Indianapolis Colts quarterback. “I’ve been a big Colts fan since I started watching a lot of football in the last five years. Plus my brother Richard (Morvant Jr.) is a team doctor for Nicholls, so he has a lot of connections.”
So with passes in hand, Morvant brought along two of her nieces, Whitney, 19, and Emily, 20.
Nobody would probably recognize them with the face paint on — Anne in Colts blue and white and Whitney and Emily in Giants red and blue.
“I don’t know who said it first that we could paint our faces like they do at NFL games,” Anne said. “It just kind of stuck. It was almost a dare, but then we really did it.”
Whitney and Emily are more diehard LSU fans than pro football fans like their aunt.
“We came to make our aunt happy,” said Emily, a junior nursing major at Nicholls.
“She said she would kill us if we didn’t come. She would pluck our eyeballs,” insisted Whitney, a 2007 E.D. White graduate and sophomore pre-med major at LSU.
As for having two sporting Giants colors to one wearing Colts gear, “We didn’t want Eli (Manning) to feel left out,” Anne said.
Too bad her husband, Christian Perago, an Internet protocol director, could not attend the session. He’s a huge Giants fan, Anne said.
The mother of three (Dan, 21, Matt, 12, and June, 10) has never been to an NFL game in person. She hopes to attend the New England Patriots-New York Giants preseason game next month.
“That’s what I’m asking my husband to get me for my birthday,” she said.
Anne and Christian flew in from their home in Portland, Maine, for the trip. Her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Richard Morvant Sr., live across the street from the Nicholls campus.
The visit has been a mini-reunion for the Morvant family, which includes seven children and 15 grandchildren.
“When we get together, we do things like this,” said Anne, referring to the face painting, “just to be different.”
Anne, Whitney and Emily Morvant wear the colors of their favorite Manning players during Saturday’s exhibition. * Photo by KEYON JEFF
