The state of Ohio, with assistance from VISA, the NFL, and Players Inc. have launched a new program titled “Financial Football” whose aim is to educate high school students on various financial topics so that they may avoid some of the pitfalls that students are faced with when they go away to college.

As a recent graduate who majored in Finance, the state couldn’t have tapped a better speaker than Brady Quinn. He visited Glenville High School in Cleveland to help kick off the program.

“Financial Football” is an NFL-themed, interactive, money management video game designed to help teach young people the basics of financial responsibility. It comes with a classroom curriculum and is activel being distributed to each high school and public library in the state of Ohio.

“It’s a great initiative,” Quinn said today. “It was something I felt I needed in high school and it’s great our state is moving towards that. It’s something a lot of kids need going to college. They need to understand financial literacy, how to handle their money and what it means to own a credit card.”

While Quinn was in Cleveland launching the program, fellow QB Derek Anderson was doing the same in COlumbus’ Centennial High School.

If you’d like to play the game, you can do so for free online at www.practicalmoneyskills.com/football or www.ohiotreasurer.gov. Sprint and AT&T mobile customers can play the game on their cell phones by texting the word VISA to 24421.

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