Manning stresses importance of financial literacy for kids
Eli Manning recognizes that the numbers in a playbook aren't the only important statistics.
Manning wants children, including his three daughters, to have a strong set of financial skills.
"I think it's so important for kids to understand what it means to save, to have a budget, to be smart about spending money," the Giants' 15th-year quarterback says. "I think the more you can introduce financial literacy to students at an early age, the more it'll prevent them from making mistakes when they're a young adult."
Manning and Giants rookie Saquon Barkley spoke to more than 100 local high school students about the importance of managing their finances before facing off in a head-to-head competition playing the latest version of Financial Football, a free video game designed to educate users on smart money decisions. Financial Football was created in a partnership between the NFL and Visa. The game challenges players to answer multiple choice and true or false questions to advance down the field in order to score a touchdown.
With one in five teenagers in the United States lacking basic financial skills, Visa has teamed with 49 state governments and the District of Columbia to issue copies of the game to middle and high school students across the country.
The free video game is available through iOS and Android apps and financialfootball.com.
"It's a fun interactive game for both adults and kids," Manning says. "You get to play a game, but also answer questions and learn about your finances. It's good for kids to start learning about the importance of financial literacy and to start saving their money."
"Involving football for the kids is a way for them to learn more interactively. Some of it is asking questions they might not know the answer to, but it might trigger their curiosity. It starts a conversation and I think it will help them down the line."
https://financialfootball.com/downloads
