Brees Tops Rodgers to Lead Bloomberg Businessweek Power 100 Rank
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Drew Brees set records on the field as the New Orleans Saints quarterback this year and beat all other athletes off of it in the Power 100, a measure of performance, popularity and marketability, Bloomberg Businessweek reports on its website.
Brees broke Dan Marino’s 27-year-old National Football League record for most passing yards in a season with 5,476. Brees, 33, also completed a record 71.2 percent of his passes and threw for more than 300 yards in 13 of 16 regular-season games, the most in NFL history.