In the fall of 1997 I was a senior in high school and some backup quarterback by the name of Drew Brees was playing mop-up action for the Boilermakers in blowouts. The next fall I would join him on campus. It feels weird to look up to a player and see the end of his career coming when he is only nine months older than I am, but over the past 19 falls I have had the pleasure of watching Brees go from "Freshman backup" to "NFL Hall of Famer". He left West Lafayette in 2000, but today he was back home for only the third time as the Saints played the Colts.
There Goes My Hero: T-Mill Goes To See Drew Brees
