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60 Minutes is preempted on television this weekend for CBS's broadcast of the AFC Championship game between the Buffalo Bills and the Kansas City Chiefs.
So we decided to dig into the.
60 Minutes archive and share three football.
Related stories with our podcast listeners.
First up, 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Croft's profile of Drew Brees, the then star quarterback for the NFL's New Orleans Saints, from September 26, 2010.
This is cool Breeze in the annals of professional sports.
Few athletes have ever been as loved, admired and respected by their hometown fans as Saints quarterback Drew Brees.
In New Orleans, they call him Cool Breeze or Breezes for resurrecting a devastated city, reviving a half dead franchise and leading them to the super bowl championship.
And at a time when a few high profile NFL stars are serving jail time or suspensions for criminal or unacceptable conduct, Brees activism and philanthropy has served to remind critics of big time sports that the news is not always bad.
In a nine year NFL career, Brees has often been underappreciated and overlooked, but he's finally being recognized for what he is.
An undersized athletic freak who in the past four years has completed more passes and thrown for more yardage than Peyton Manning, Tom Brady or Brett Favre.
Who's the best quarterback in the NFL.