Drew Brees Is Hiding in Plain Sight
 

Drew Brees spies the bouncy house—the friggin’ bouncy house—and grimaces. He’s on the field at the Saints’ indoor practice field in mid-October, holding an inch-thick black playbook and rifling through pages of plays named after video games (Fortnite) and superheroes (Black Panther, Captain America). He turns to address the Boilermakers, the team of first- and second-grade flag footballers he coaches every Monday. He’s oblivious to the parents seated in their lawn chairs, to the dogs roaming the sidelines and to the most repeated question of this 2018 NFL season: What record did Brees break this week?

The kids, though, are not oblivious. They’re distracted. By the parents and the dogs and, most of all, by the giant bouncy house now being inflated across the field for the birthday party of coach Brees’s middle son, Bowen, who is turning eight. Sure, Brees may have vaulted the Saints into Super Bowl contention while expanding the footprint of his youth flag league, Football ’N’ America; he may have toppled the NFL marks for career completions and passing yards, thus (slowly) altering the prism through which we view his remarkably-consistent-and-still-not-yet-fully-appreciated career. But right now the 39-year-old is competing for attention against more than Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers or Peyton Manning, or even the overcooked notion that he’s some sort of football underdog success story. Now it’s Brees vs. the Bouncy House too.

https://www.si.com/nfl/2018/11/26/dr...es-saints-2018

Re: Drew Brees Is Hiding in Plain Sight
 

This guy is truly a class act. On AND off the field he simply cannot be beat. He is #1 in my eyes.
I would love to meet this guy someday.