R.I.P. Drew Brees

Take it easy Saints fans, your beloved Breesus is alive and well…for now. That may all change now that Brees has been pegged as the new cover athlete for Madden NFL 11, beating out Colts WR Reggie Wayne and Vikings DE Jared Allen.

The Brees choice isn’t anything of a surprise, what with the Saints winning the Super Bowl, and Brees taking home the MVP trophy. I like Drew Brees and all, but I was hoping that Jared Allen could pull off the longshot upset, only because of his promise to “straighten my mullet and make it as trashy as possible.“ Now that, my friends, would have been a sight to behold, and would have definitely increased sales in the all important “toothless hick” demographic.

Unless Brees wants to follow in the footsteps of Daunte Culpepper, Donovan McNabb, Shaun Alexander and the others who have been felled by the Madden curse, he might want to seek out one of the following people, for a little “spiritual protection,” so to speak…