********<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\nBut it hasn\u2019t all changed. Buffalo is still Buffalo. Detroit, Detroit. Tom Brady has flowing locks now\u2014because Gisele likes it that way\u2014but has the Patriots once again thinking Super Bowl.<\/p>\n
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Brett Favre leaves the game in the capable hands of Brady and….<\/p>\n
2010\u2019s NFL PLAYER OF THE YEAR: DREW BREES<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
He was damaged goods. The quarterback had a shredded labrum and a career that both hung by a thread. He was a player nobody wanted who went to a team no one wanted to play for. He says now he needed New Orleans as much as New Orleans needed him. And the two grew together. New Orleans dug out. Drew Brees dug in, brandishing a high-octane offense the likes of which the NFL had never seen before.<\/p>\n
Five years after many feared New Orleans would be washed away, Drew Brees brought the city the chalice of sports immortality. The Saints rode an onside kick after half-time and Brees\u2019 robotic precision to shock Peyton Manning and the favored Colts in Super Bowl XLIV. \u2018Round Bourbon Street they just call him Breesus. He marshals over the Mardi Gras parade as Bacchus come March. He fixes up rusted playgrounds Mondays. And Sundays he whistles in more touchdowns. \nDrew Brees is the poster-child of a new NFL. His is the marred face of an NFL of second chances, parity, and record scoring. Brees has a birthmark on his right cheek that Oprah embarrassingly mistook for lipstick.<\/p>\n
<\/object><\/center><\/p>\nDUMBEST QUOTE OF THE YEAR WINNER:<\/strong> Dolphins linebacker Channing Crowder: \u201cLike they didn’t see [Dolphins quarterback] Chad Henne get hit twice when he slid. Yeah, a little Stevie Wonder and Anne Frank.”<\/p>\nAfter a reporter asked Crowder what the Anne Frank reference meant, Crowder said, \u201cWho was that? Is that the blind girl? Helen Keller … I don’t know who the f— Anne Frank is. I’m mad right now. F— it. I’m not as swift as I usually am.<\/p>\n
ODDEST PRE-GAME WARMUP RITUAL WINNER: Defensive End John Henderson<\/strong><\/p>\n
<\/object><\/center><\/p>\nDUBIOUSLY EFFECTIVE COACHING MOVE OF THE YEAR:<\/strong> Chicago Bears defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli showed the team a video of a shark eating a dolphin to prepare for the team\u2019s Thursday night game vs. the Miami Dolphins. The Bears went on to shut-out the Dolphins 16-0.<\/p>\nNFL RANT OF THE YEAR WINNER: Arizona Cardinals QB Derek Anderson<\/strong><\/p>\n
<\/object><\/center><\/p>\nUPDATE:<\/strong> It\u2019s not fine for Derek Anderson. Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard spoofed the outburst<\/a> and Anderson lost his starting job to rookie John Skelton.<\/p>\n
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