Going into Monday night's game it was the expectation that New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees would pass Peyton Manning for the all-time passing yards record, but not even he could imagine how it would be broken. Going into a drive during the second quarter Brees was only 35 yards short of the record and the Saints had the ball on their own 38-yard line.
Brees hit Tre'Quan Smith on the first play of the drive for a 62-yard touchdown and he was able to have the moment with the rest of the team, his family, and the fans before they ran the two-point conversion.
“I didn’t know it was going to happen on the first play to Tre’Quan,” Brees said, via the Associated Press. “But I don’t think it could have happened in any better fashion than it did. To have then that moment with my teammates on the field, the offensive line, it played out even greater than I ever could have imagined.”
Brees was also asked to reflect on his career after the play but said it was hard to do because his career isn't over and there is still a lot of things he would like to accomplish.
“It's hard for me to reflect too much right now just because my career's not done. There are still goals to be accomplished. There are still challenges to be met. And so I'm still very focused on that,” Brees said. “And yet, when something like this happens, there are so many people who are responsible for that, that are a part of that, that makes me happy. It makes me proud and it makes me extremely grateful — extremely grateful for the opportunity to play this game, to play it as long as I've played it, to have wound up here in New Orleans.”
When Brees came to New Orleans the city needed somebody to get behind, and Brees needed a team to just give him a chance and believe him. It looks like it has worked out for both sides as Brees has had one of the best careers in NFL history, and helped deliver a Super Bowl to a city that longed for success for so long.
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