Brees Named SI’s Sportsman Of The Year

Sports Illustrated has named New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees its 2010 "Sportsman Of The Year."

People Magazine has the story:

Drew Brees, who led the New Orleans Saints to their first Super Bowl title last February--in many ways the culmination of his five-year quest to help revive the city after Hurricane Katrina--has been named Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year for 2010.

Brees, 31, came to New Orleans in 2006, the year after the hurricane, and immediately felt a kinship. The city was in ruins – much like his own career, as he nursed a wrecked shoulder. But the team believed in him, and helped him orchestrate a parallel story of rebirth for himself and the city.