LOPRESTI: Saints QB Brees stands out in a glitzy crowd (1 Viewer)

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LOPRESTI: Saints QB Brees stands out in a glitzy crowd

September 22, 2009
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• Weren't the New Orleans Saints more interesting when their fans were wearing grocery bags over their heads?

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Maybe not. But now that the Saints have turned into Texas playing Louisiana-Monroe -- scoring 45 points one week and 48 the next is supposed to happen in the Big 12, not the NFL -- it is hard to be sure what to think of them.
It's this little guy slinging around all the passes, Drew Brees. The one who has to look up to call the plays for the Saints.
Quarterbacks get all the attention, and we know which ones invariably draw the most. Being either a Manning, a Brady, a Favre, a New Yorker or recently released from a federal correctional facility usually helps.
But while trying to keep track of the NFL on television with the remote control the first two weeks, we seem to have spotted a trend.
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There's Brett Favre on the field, and all the talk about a divided Minnesota locker room seems to have vanished faster than you can say, "The Vikings are 2-0."
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Brees is throwing a touchdown pass.


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Not only are the New England Patriots proving unable to make the New York Jets pay for all the yapping, there seems to be a mined moat in front of the end zone that Tom Brady can't penetrate.
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Meanwhile, Mark Sanchez for mayor. Or is it governor?
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Brees is throwing another touchdown pass.

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