"With the help of professional hair and makeup artists, the former New York Giants quarterback transformed into Chad Powers, a mustachioed college QB who speaks in the third person and spouts phrases like "Think fast, run fast." Eventually, Manning revealed his identity to the unsuspecting players. The episode went viral, launching T-shirts, Halloween costumes, and now a scripted TV show, "Chad Powers," for which Manning serves as an executive producer."
"I WENT TO A PENN STATE game about a year after the sketch. It was a White Out game. And I swear I must have seen 10,000 Chad Powers T-shirts that the students were wearing. I'm like wow, this thing has really blown up and gone to another level. After we filmed the sketch, I thought it went really well, but I had no idea the magnitude of what it would become."
Eli Manning went undercover for an ESPN+ sketch as Chad Powers, using professional hair and makeup to become a mustachioed college quarterback who speaks in the third person and says "Think fast, run fast." He revealed his identity to unsuspecting walk-ons and the sketch went viral, spawning T-shirts and Halloween costumes. The sketch became a six-episode comedy on Hulu called Chad Powers, starring Glen Powell as Russ Holliday, a former quarterback who adopts the Powers persona to seek redemption and play for the South Georgia Catfish. Manning taught Powell to throw, served as an executive producer and attended a Penn State White Out where students wore Chad Powers shirts.
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