New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees wins 2011 Bart Starr Award
 

Bart Starr will present the award to Brees at the 24th annual NFL-sanctioned Super Bowl Breakfast on Saturday, Feb. 5. The breakfast, presented by Northwestern Mutual Financial Network, will take place at 8 a.m. at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas (1501 Gaylord Trail). Past winners of the award include Kurt Warner, Warrick Dunn, LaDainian Tomlinson, Darren Woodson, Anthony Munoz, Reggie White and Steve Largent.

The other finalists for the 2011 award were Green Bay Packers receiver Donald Driver, Washington Redskins linebacker London Fletcher and Dallas Cowboys tight end Jason Witten.

Brees has been racking up the accolades over the past year, beginning with his MVP performance in Super Bowl XLIV. He was also named Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year and the Associated Press' Male Athlete of the Year, in addition to a handful of ESPN ESPY awards. He also won a fan vote for the cover of EA Sports' popular Madden video game, wrote a best-selling autobiography and became a pitchman in several TV and print advertisements.

New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees wins 2011 Bart Starr Award | NOLA.com

Congrats Drew you deserve it

If anybody deserves it, Drew Brees does! So nice to see class is appreciated.

I am happy for him.

Great for the franchise.

Stoked.

Alaska

Damn Drew is going to need a trophy room by the time his career is over, joking aside it's always good when good people get honored since all they cover are when players act like idiots