Is Drew Brees' number " Officially retired" by the team ???.........

saintlad said

Saw that Patriots were going to honor Tom Brady and I am trying to remember if the Saints did something similar the year after Brees left ( old man brain here) .

Anyway, have the Saints officially retired his jersey yet or is there a certain timeline they go by before doing that or putting him in the Ring of Honor ? If not , was wondering why the wait ??

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It's not going to be retired. The only question is if the equipment manager is going to issue that jersey to a player.

It's been 40+ years since #8 has been issued, and that was to Archie Manning. Not issuing a jersey effectively, but not officially, retires it.

I doubt #9 will be issued to anyone anytime soon.

I too think it's a damn shame that anyone since City Champ and Big Willie got to wear #57 and #77. I thin TH7 has done the #7 jersey proud.

SFIAH