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By Benjamin Gallagher. Www.nfl.com
If there's a good time to begin a 41-mile marathon in West New Orleans, I can't imagine it's 3 a.m. But just five days after coming up with #BreesAThon in Los Angeles, we started walking.
It took Drew Brees 17 seasons (plus five games) to break the all-time passing yards record with 71,940 yards. Grady Rains and I were about to cover that distance in one day -- the day that Brees would make football history.
201 yards away from becoming the NFL's all-time leading passer... Will history be made on #MNF?@drewbrees and the @sainTS take on the Redskins TONIGHT (8:15pm ET) on ESPN! #WASvsNOpic.twitter.com/7UDIPE1JkM
— NFL (@NFL) October 8, 2018
We charted a path through the Big Easy that followed the Mississippi River for 28.4 miles to an old battlefield, where we'd turn toward downtown, snake the famous streets of the French Quarter, cross Canal St., and walk onto the field at the Superdome. There, we'd shake hands with Drew Brees before he claimed one of the most impressive statistical records in sports.
TOMORROW. WE ARE WALKING 40.8 MILES IN ONE DAY.
Full story here: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...-i-learned-walking-71940-yards-for-drew-brees
If there's a good time to begin a 41-mile marathon in West New Orleans, I can't imagine it's 3 a.m. But just five days after coming up with #BreesAThon in Los Angeles, we started walking.
It took Drew Brees 17 seasons (plus five games) to break the all-time passing yards record with 71,940 yards. Grady Rains and I were about to cover that distance in one day -- the day that Brees would make football history.
201 yards away from becoming the NFL's all-time leading passer... Will history be made on #MNF?@drewbrees and the @sainTS take on the Redskins TONIGHT (8:15pm ET) on ESPN! #WASvsNOpic.twitter.com/7UDIPE1JkM
— NFL (@NFL) October 8, 2018
We charted a path through the Big Easy that followed the Mississippi River for 28.4 miles to an old battlefield, where we'd turn toward downtown, snake the famous streets of the French Quarter, cross Canal St., and walk onto the field at the Superdome. There, we'd shake hands with Drew Brees before he claimed one of the most impressive statistical records in sports.
TOMORROW. WE ARE WALKING 40.8 MILES IN ONE DAY.
Full story here: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...-i-learned-walking-71940-yards-for-drew-brees
