My Favorite

The man I am going to speak of today is a man who I will forever respect and see as my favorite payer ever in NFL history. This man happened to be in the first Superbowl I truly watched and understood for the first time. That Superbowl happened to be my favorite Superbowl and it was Superbowl 44 where the New Orleans Saints faced The Indianapolis Colts. The two quarterbacks that played in this Superbowl are Peyton Manning who I have talked about before, and my personal Favorite Drew Brees. Ever since that Superbowl I have admired this man’s play. He throws some of the most accurate passes in the NFL while the ball usually being a perfect spiral when he throws it. He has one of the slickest throwing motions I have ever seen in a quarterback, and he is a shorter quarterback then others being only six feet tall, which just adds to his beautiful throwing motion. Then, from what I have seen he seems to be a humble and genuine guy in interviews and such. I love and respect this man and will fanboy over him any day of the week, so it pained me when I found out about what happened earlier in his career.

            Drew Brees played his college ball at Purdue; it would turn out that Drew Brees would be drafted by the San Diego Chargers in the 2^nd round with the 32^nd overall pick in the 2001 NFL draft. As you all should know that the San Diego Chargers/LA Chargers are my favorite team, so it hurt me knowing that my favorite team once had my favorite player and let him go. His 5 years of playing with the Chargers were a little before my time of viewing Football as much as I do now. Drew Brees would show flashes of his greatness while he was with the Chargers, which is understandable he was still young and developing as a player. However, he would injure his should by tearing his labrum and half of his rotater cuff. This injury was a very hard injury to overcome and come back with the same amount of ability and skill as before. So, the Chargers did the smarter business move at the time and released him. This would lead to the Chargers having Philip Rivers as their quarterback who I grew up watching, and Brees going off to the New Orlean Saints.

            From there, Drew Brees would go on to have a storied career in New Orleans with a fan base who just loves him. In Brees’ career he would pass for 77,416 passing yards, 547 touchdown passes, and would have a career completion percentage of 67 percent. Brees also holds the record for most passing yards in a career, most passing yards in a season including the playoffs with 6,404 passing yards, best completion percentage with 67.3/74.4 in a season, and 6 others that are just as impressive. Then, as stated before, Brees is a Superbowl champion, and he is a 13time pro bowler. Brees and the Saints would have multiple play off runs, but never reaching the Superbowl again. This last season, Brees started 11 games, won 8 of them, but he got injured during the season so he missed a couple of games. The Saints and Brees would go on to lose to the Vikings in the wild card round unfortunately. After that, Brees was contemplating retirement, which makes sense since he is 41 years old right now and has already lived through a successful career. Just recently, he announced he would be back for this next season which I do hope happenings due to Corona Virus threatening its chance of staying on. Either way, I see Drew Brees as an inspiration who rebounded from a career threatening injury, to winning a Superbowl, and holding some of the hardest quarterback records to break. However, it still pains me to wonder what could have been if the Chargers just trusted him enough and kept him. Maybe, the Chargers would have won a Superbowl or multiple considering the amount of talent the chargers would later have just after his release. Or maybe, he wouldn’t have come out to be the same player, so it was probably best he went to New Orleans. No matter, I still love the man and will continue to see him as the “GOAT”.