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2021 Regular Session
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 69
BY SENATOR BERNARD
COMMENDATIONS. Commends Marques Colston on being inducted into the 2021 class
of the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.
1 A RESOLUTION
2 To commend Marques Colston for his induction into the 2021 class of the Louisiana Sports
3 Hall of Fame.
4 WHEREAS, Marques Colston was born on June 5, 1983, in Harrisburg,
5 Pennsylvania; and
6 WHEREAS, Marques Colston will be inducted into the 2021 class of the Louisiana
7 Sports Hall of Fame as the all-time leading receiver for the New Orleans Saints, joining two
8 of LSU's greatest competitors, basketball's Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf and football's Glenn
9 Dorsey, along with former LSU track and field coach Pat Henry and Southern Jaguar and
10 MLB baseball star, Rickie Weeks; and
11 WHEREAS, he was a seventh-round daft pick in 2006 (252nd overall) for the New
12 Orleans Saints; and
13 WHEREAS, Marques Colston, a product of Hofstra University, easily became the
14 most productive receiver in Saints history in his ten-year career span from 2006 to 2015; and
15 WHEREAS, quiet and reserved off the field but competitive on it, Marques Colston
16 quickly became one of the cornerstones of Head Coach Sean Payton's first Saints team; and
17 WHEREAS, Colston's six feet, four inch, two hundred twenty-five pound size
18 combined with his willingness to go over the middle and make the touch catch made him an
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1 instant favorite for new quarterback, Drew Brees; and
2 WHEREAS, the skill and tenacity of Marques Colston helped the New Orleans
3 Saints win the NFC South title and reach the NFC championship game as Colston made the
4 all-rookie team; and
5 WHEREAS, three years later, Marques Colston and the New Orleans Saints won the
6 NFC crown and the franchise's only championship with a thirty-one to seventeen victory
7 over Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV; and
8 WHEREAS, in his ten year career, Colston played in one hundred forty-six games
9 with one hundred six starts and caught seven hundred eleven passes for nine thousand seven
10 hundred fifty-nine yards, both club records; and
11 WHEREAS, an especially inviting target in the red zone because he towered over
12 most defenders and could easily come down with Brees' patented back-shoulder throws,
13 Colston also scored seventy-two touchdowns for another franchise record and tied Joe Horn
14 for the most one hundred yard games in club history with twenty-eight; and
15 WHEREAS, Marques Colston has one hundred fifty yards or more in six of those
16 games, topped by a ten-catch, one hundred sixty-nine yard performance versus Pittsburgh
17 in 2006; and
18 WHEREAS, for his career, Marques Colston had one hundred eighty-nine more
19 receptions and one thousand nine hundred five more receiving yards than Louisiana Sports
20 Hall of Fame member, Eric Martin, and twenty-two more touchdowns than Horn, elected to
21 the LSHOF's 2020 class; and
22 WHEREAS, Colston produced six, one thousand yard receiving seasons with a best
23 of one thousand two hundred two yards in 2007 when he also had a club single-season
24 ninety-eight receptions and scored eleven touchdowns; and
25 WHEREAS, Marques Colston grabbed another fifty-eight passes for seven hundred
26 eighty-eight yards and had four scores in ten post-season contests, catching seven balls for
27 eighty-three yards in the Super Bowl XLIV win.
28 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
29 does hereby commend and extend heartfelt congratulations to Marques Colston for his
30 induction into the 2021 class of the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame due to his career as the
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1 all-time leading receiver for the New Orleans Saints.
2 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to
3 Marques Colston.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Angela L. De Jean.
DIGEST
SR 69 Original 2021 Regular Session Bernard
Commends Marques Colston on being inducted into the 2021 class of the Louisiana Sports
Hall of Fame.
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