A couple of familiar quarterbacks will be making return trips to the NFL Pro Bowl as the New York Jets’ Brett Favre and the New Orleans Saints’ Drew Brees will be traveling back to Hawaii for the league’s all-star game.
Brees and Favre will be backups as Arizona’s Kurt Warner and Indianapolis’ Peyton Manning will start for the NFC and AFC at quarterback, respectively.
Brees, the Saints’ lone Pro Bowler this year, leads the NFL with 4,337 yards and is tied with San Diego’s Philip Rivers for tops in the league with 28 touchdowns. Brees is making his second trip to Hawaii in his three seasons in New Orleans.
Favre will be making his 10th Pro Bowl appearance and has led the Jets to a 9-5 record, which has the team in a three-way tie with New England and Miami in the AFC East. The Kiln native has thrown for 3,052 yards with 21 touchdowns and 17 interceptions.
New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning will also join his brother Peyton in Hawaii making it the first time two brothers made the Pro Bowl in the same season.
Former Ole Miss standout Patrick Willis made it two-for-two as the second-year San Francisco middle linebacker earned a starting role in the Pro Bowl his first two years in the pros.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Brees, Favre, Mannings make Pro Bowl
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Favre finished with 22 TD and 22 INT. He lost four of his last five games and had 9 INT in that time.
He was awful today when his team needed a performance. He never actually attends the Pro Bowl so if he does this year, it will really highlight that he should not be there - Rivers should be or Pennington who beat him today.
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