Drew Brees

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Some of my favorite memories growing up was watching Purdue football games together with my dad. I remember being about 12 years old we watched Drew "Cool" Brees make his first start for Purdue. When Purdue came to Florida, I attended my very first football game Purdue vs. UCF. After that game...I was hooked.. dude could play.

I continued to follow Brees NFL career very closely, even after NFL scouts, team owners...said, "He's too small". He proved them wrong in San Diego. He had a nasty 1 in 500 type shoulder injury, which basically ended his career in most everyone eyes. He wanted to prove them wrong...and Saints allowed him to do just that.

Couldn't be happier for Brees! He worked his butt off, proved people wrong, mastered his craft all while being a class act and never letting fame get to his head. As a Purdue Alum, I'm proud to say he's a Boilermaker.

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For sometime - as in years! - I've thot the idiot the Dolts had as GM when DB played for them, dumped the wrong QB, favoring Rivers. When DB blew out his arm attempting a tackle, this yo-yo said he'd never recover. Think he did! Rivers - by all accounts is a great guy and quality NFL QB, as is DB. Still, given the advantage of hindsight, I would take Brees in a heartbeat over Rivers. Curse of the moronic Spani owners!

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Passer rating is based on completion %, yards per attempt, TD% and Int %. To have a perfect rating you have to average at least 12.5 yards per attempt. Brees averaged 10.23.