Falcons vs. Saints: Drew Brees Saves Monday Night by Making History

The Falcons came into Monday night and laid a stinker of a game, and then something special happened. 

With the game well in hand and many viewers closer to sleep than on the edge of their seats, Drew Brees fired a bullet to Darren Sproles, topping Dan Marino’s record of 5,084 yards with the nine-yard touchdown pass. 

The crowd obliged by slipping into hysteria and the Saints came to his side to embrace the master who just beat up on a great team, and made history doing it. 

Not only did he pass Marino's mark for passing yards in a season, his three touchdowns gave him 275 for his career. That moves him one ahead of Joe Montana and into a tie with Vinny Testaverde for ninth all time. 

So if you are keeping score at home, Brees just lofted himself into the realm of all-time greats. Start chiseling on the Mount Rushmore of NFL quarterbacks because Drew Brees no doubt deserves to be acknowledged as one of the best to ever play the sport. 

What comes now is an awkward moment where Brees, or Packers' quarterback Aaron Rodgers, is denied the MVP award. 

All it takes is a few snaps of watching either to understand that both are having ridiculous seasons. If ever there were a time when a co-MVP acknowledgement would be just, this would be it. 

Rodgers has been sublime on his way to making the Packers near-perfect. Brees, for his turn, just surpassed an amazing record. 

That's not nearly all, as he also salvaged a laugher of a Monday night game. Those that held on to stomach the rest of this contest truly saw history being made by one of the best ever. 

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