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New Orleans Saints Fan Sets Up Website To Pay Drew Brees

With New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees not participating in OTA’s due to his contract standstill, one Saints’ fan has taken it upon himself to start a website to help raise money for Brees’s new contract. 52-year-old Tony Le Mon has set up the website “fansstepup.com” in the hopes of fans donating money to support Brees’s new contract. Le Mon is a long...
Via Rant Sports  |  4 hours ago
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Saints fan starts website seeking contract donations for Brees

Jason Whitney Very few things have gone right in Saints land this past offseason. It’s been one blow after another, for a city that has endured its fair share of tragedy and turmoil. So when a city that has been so reliant on Drew Brees and what he has brought them sees a power struggle, it does what any desperate fan base would do…raise money themselves! Season ticketholder...
Via Sports-Kings  |  6 hours ago
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Saints fan starts a website to pay Drew Brees

Getty Images A long time New Orleans Saints season ticket holder has started a website called “Fans Step Up,” in order to raise money for quarterback Drew Brees, in an attempt to keep him in New Orleans. “Drew Brees has been an incredible ambassador for the City of New Orleans. Not only in his accomplishments on the football field, but in his charitable and community...
Via Pro Football Zone  |  7 hours ago
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Saints fan Tony Le Mon starts website asking for donations to pay Drew Brees

When the all-too-common argument of athletes being overpaid arises, I tend to always side with the athlete. While $20 million a year seems like an astronomical amount of money to pay someone for playing a game, it is the basic concept of supply-and-demand at work. The money comes from somewhere, and if the people shelling it out didn’t think they were going to get a return...
Via Larry Brown Sports  |  9 hours ago
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How Many Games Can New Orleans Saints Win Without Drew Brees in 2012?

The New Orleans Saints are getting into OTAs without their head coach. Once the regular season begins, they will get underway without their offensive coordinator and general manager as well, causing a less than favorable start to the upcoming NFL campaign. If they also begin the year without their top overall player, can the Saints possibly expect to contend in a challenging division...
Via thepigskinreport.com  |  1 day ago
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Drew Brees Contract Negotiations: It's About Survival, Not Money

It seems crazy. On one side you have a player that has performed statistically off the charts throughout his last contract and is best in the league at this point. On the other side you have a franchise that is desperate for anything remotely close to good news to shift the tide of negative publicity. Yet we stiil have no deal. And we are reaching the point where people are hurling...
Via Football Nation  |  2 days ago
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Saints Nation: Pat Yasinskas of ESPN Ponders the Possibility of a Season without Drew Brees

If Drew Brees doesn't have a long term contract by mid July, then he has a choice to make - 1. sign the 1 year franchise tender or 2. sit out 2012. Drew Brees sitting out the entire 2012 season due to a contract dispuste is not something I've been really considering much. Even with the latest Pat Yasinskas of ESPN article bringing that possibility to our collective attention...
Via The Saints Nation  |  3 days ago
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Could Drew Brees sit out the season?

Drew Brees is in contract negotiations with the Saints, but things haven't gone well. Would he consider sitting out the season?

Via Footbasket  |  4 days ago
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What Saints’ fans might be wearing if Brees isn’t re-signed

New Orleans Saints starting quarterback Drew Brees broke the all-time NFL passing record for most yards in a single season in 2011 yet his reward during the offseason was a franchise tag rather than a long-term contract extension.  The negotiation process has began to frustrate Brees, so much, that he’s beginning to speak out about
Via The Penalty Flag  |  10 days ago
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Just how important is Drew Brees to the Saints?

There is no doubt the New Orleans Saints are dependent on quarterback Drew Brees but just how much are they? Are the Saints like the Colts? Are they basically a one-man team? I realize that in even considering this, it's tremendously insulting to the many other professionals within the Saints' organization to speculate that their efforts are potentially marginally impactful...
Via The Penalty Flag  |  14 days ago
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