The 2011 Offensive Player of the Year arrived in New Orleans in 2006, less than a year after Hurricane Katrina had struck. Since then he has passed for more yards than any other quarterback in the NFL (28,394) while lifting the Saints to new heights and simultaneously helping a region heal from Katrina’s devastation.
John Clayton, at ESPN.com. If the New Orleans region needed Drew Brees’ passing arm to recover from Hurricane Katrina, then it’s even more dysfunctional that we thought. C’mon — let’s stop this nonsense about sports “saving” cities. New York City didn’t fall apart after Mariano Rivera blew the World Series in November 2001; Detroit isn’t going to get better because of sports or Clint Eastwood voiceovers.
Daily chart: America’s costliest hurricanes. Hurricanes that tear up America’s east coast in the way Irene did are rare, but certainly not unheard of. How much damage it caused remains to be seen.
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