hitta

I think it's funny now, especially after a big victory, but it was definitely an odd thing to do in a pre-game speech. I like that he can make fun of himself. That's a rare quality, cause most people are too uptight and trying to be perfect.

AsylumGuido

Actually, he was planning on stopping, but continued to lick them. Here's Amie Just on a question about it a few weeks back.

I thought Drew Brees was going to stop licking his fingers?

A: So, he started training camp without issue, but then I noticed on one day in particular, he was back to his old finger lickin' ways. On like the ninth day of practice (or something close to that) I counted that he licked his fingers six times when I was paying attention to him.

I went back and watched the first drive of the Raiders' game and Brees — while he was on camera — licked his fingers 12 times. In the first drive. Here are my notes:

As he's walking onto the field before the first play
As he's breaking the huddle before the first play
Before he takes the first snap
Before he takes the second snap
After the incompletion to Jared Cook
As he's breaking the huddle for the fourth play
Before he takes the fourth snap
Before the snap at 12:40
Before the snap at 12:15
After breaking the huddle at 11:51
Before the snap at 11:49
Before the snap at 11:17

Those finger licks were just when he was on camera, too. So, based on this, it looks like he has a pattern. He definitely licks his fingers after breaking every huddle and before taking every snap. So in the case of finger licks 10 and 11, that's two licks within three seconds. He also — as he's said previously — sometimes licks his fingers after the play, as evidenced by No. 5.

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” — Winston Churchill

hitta

Him stopping his linger licking routine will probably have little to no impact on whether or not he gets infected with covid. While it is possible to spread it from surfaces or your hands, it's actually incredibly unlikely and one of the most overblown things our society has worried about maybe in my lifetime. I think I remember reading a study where maybe 1 in every 650 cases occurred due to surface related spreading and then touching facial area. It's very rare and difficult to spread that way(and thankfully the CDC has finally acknowledged that, as epidemiologists and virologists that have actually studied he virus instead of making some random guesses based on trying to look important on the news or out of fear have been saying that since almost the very beginning). Washing your hands several times a day is good hygiene. Cutting back on touching your face is probably not a bad philosophy either. Neither will probably impact your ability to get the virus unless you are just incredibly unlucky. There is no point in washing your hands until they are so dry that the skin starts to peel off.