how's life that's it's going good it's
going good
before drew brees would be drafted by
the san diego chargers before he would
become the nfl's comeback player of the
year in 2004
before he would become a super bowl
champion with the saints that included a
super bowl
mvp performance during the 2009 season
before brees would break multiple nfl
records including career pass
completions
career completion percentage and career
passing yards before he would break the
record for most consecutive games with a
touchdown pass
no other individual has had more 300
yard passing game 400 yard passing games
touchdown passes in a game consecutive
games with a touchdown pass
5 000 yard passing seasons i mean i
could go on and on but i'd like to talk
to the man put your hands together
for drew brees before drew brees would
have more than 3.2 million followers on
twitter and more than 1.3 million
followers on instagram
and close to 2 million followers on
facebook at the time this recording and
before he would become the third best 12
year old tennis player
in texas that's right i bet you didn't
know that one but he's since hung up his
racket to become one of the most well
respected players in the nfl
both for his on-field performances and
the person he is off the field now i'm a
saints fan so i might be a little biased
but drew has had a long journey to the
top
he didn't start playing tackle football
until the ninth grade and it took him
two years before he was even able to see
a start
even after a stellar high school career
he was overlooked by all of the major
football schools in texas
even getting into a little bit of beef
with texas a
m but you know he overcame every
obstacle along the way to reach the
ultimate goal of the super bowl and
it's a pretty good story what's going on
good people in the comment section i
hope you are having one heck of a day
my name is jeremy hag and i'll be your
host today as i take you through the
life
and career of drew brees prior to fame
here for you of course on before they
were famous
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question for you
what was the nickname that drew's
teammates called him in college let me
know your guess is in the comments down
below and i will see you after the intro
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drew christopher brees was born on
january 15 1979
in dallas texas drew's father was eugene
wilson chip breeze ii that's
a long name but he just went by chip he
was a prominent trial lawyer in texas
and his mother mina ruth was an attorney
as well so you can bet that was probably
a strict household growing up
drew has also had football in his blood
since day one he was even named after
dallas cowboys wide receiver drew
pearson
who is a part of one of the most famous
hail mary passes of all time
his mother mino was an amazing high
school athlete also
who excelled in four sports was all
stayed in three and was a baseball
cheerleader at texas a m
and that is where she met chip who was a
basketball player for the texas a
m men's team drew's uncle marty atkins
was an all southwest conference
quarterback at texas drew's parents
divorce when drew was eight and his
younger brother reed was five mina
remarried to a district court judge
harley clark and the two were together
for 10 years while his dad remarried to
amy hightower whose father was a
congressman and later became a state
supreme court judge
powerful family but drew says that
during that divorce it was actually a
very challenging period for him and his
brother the two had split their time
between their mom and dad's places but
they both had trouble adjusting drew has
later said that his parents did get
along so it was better than some of his
friends parents divorces drew's
grandfather ray atkins was one of 10 men
chosen out of a hundred
to be a soldier who fought in the battle
of okinawa it was one of the bloodiest
battles in world war ii history and out
of 153 men in the battle
only three survived drew's grandpa was
one of them later on he ended up
becoming a football coach brie said
speaking of his grandfather who passed
away he was probably one of the most
incredible people
incredible man you would ever meet they
just don't make them like that anymore
honestly atkins was an offensive lineman
who played college football at southwest
texas university in the late 1940s and
upon graduation he was offered a
position on the chicago bears and get
this
while his grandson would years later
sign an nfl contract worth 50 million
dollars
drew's grandpa was offered a whopping
six uh
grand by the bears i know times have
changed but as tempting as that offer
was
atkins took a job instead as a high
school football coach
he coached for 38 years and became the
third winningest coach
in texas high school football history at
the time of his retirement with over 300
wins brees said that watching his
grandpa and grandma together also gave
him the model marriage to look up to he
spent his summers between the ages of 5
and 10
attending his grandfather's two-a-day
pre-season practices
at gregory portland high school brees
says he looked up to the players on the
team as well as his grandfather's
success drew's dad would also play catch
with him for hours on the weekend so he
grew up
loving football brees also grew up
feeding cows and fixing fences on his
grandfather's ranch every summer but
besides playing football and working
with cows
drew's mother introduced him to tennis
and before long he became one of the
best junior tennis players in texas
he was actually ranked at number three
in the u.s tennis association's age
12 group he beat me in tennis when we
were kids and he did beat me
yeah i have a losing record at drew
brees i'm down two and one for my life
uh he was the guy who played like tennis
as a hobby once a week while the rest of
us played like six days a week
and uh he beat me the first two times i
finally beat him and i guess he decided
that was enough to quit
went and played uh basketball football
and basically dominated everything else
but he did have trouble beating his mom
in games of one-on-one
according to her like i said drew always
loved playing football
he played flag football at st andrews a
pisco
episcopal school i think that's how you
pronounce it but he wasn't a world-class
prodigy like some of the other athletes
we covered for this show
in fact he didn't strap on the pads for
real until the ninth grade at west lake
high but even then he only played for
the b team in his freshman year and a
year later
he became the backup on the junior
varsity team before finally becoming the
starter after their qb suffered a knee
injury
it was time for drew to step up and boy
did he ever step into that role
brees went 28-0-1 in his two seasons
starting for the varsity team and led
westlake to a championship
that included the offensive mvp award in
those two seasons he threw for close to
5
500 yards and had 50 touchdowns but
despite all the stats
an undefeated varsity career and despite
his coaches telling universities that
brees was the most accurate passer they
had ever seen he was still completely
overlooked by most of the major schools
in texas
breeze had his sights set on one
particular college he said
if texas a m had offered me a
scholarship i would have gotten there in
a minute
and drew has led on to think that he
would be receiving that offer
according to brees he was contacted by
the assistant coach who took him to
lunch
and said he would schedule a visit for
drew but a couple weeks before he was
supposed to attend a
m when he called up a m to confirm they
put him on hold said sorry we got
another call and they never called him
back
but drew did on the field speaks for
himself and any coach that missed that
you know chances are they're probably
not coaching anymore that sounds like
the one girl that you
were chasing you know you always wanted
then you think you have a shot with them
but it turns out they have a boyfriend i
feel you drew i feel you
at least somebody made the right call
the coach who gave drew the runaround
later said that drew was by far the best
player out of the three quarterbacks
they were looking at yeah easy to say
that in hindsight buddy
your tone seems very pointed right now
finally two schools decided to give the
kid a shot
purdue and kentucky and he chose to roll
with purdue because of their academic
program
since birth drew has always had a big
brown birthmark on his cheek that's
still noticeable today
his friends growing up would tease him
about it calling it turd leech or roach
seems me i think they were trying to be
malicious you know they were trying to
be hurtful
for me you know i think i just got to
the point where
you know i just i just brushed it off
his mother thought that she had actually
caused a mark when she fell on her right
side
on a patch of ice not too long before
delivering drew but she would always say
that's where an angel kissed you when
drew got to college his birthmark became
a source of some good jokes between him
and his teammates
at first his teammate and best friend
ben smith thought drew was wearing a
cheerleading sticker on his face
and thought to himself man this guy is
lost he remembers one night seeing drew
dancing with the girl at the club
and the girl wet her finger and tried to
wipe it off and drew said
it ain't coming off and then him and his
friends lost it laughing
all right who just kissed you there's a
big oak
the team even came up with a nickname
for the birthmark
they called it per nick that's no cap
see what i did there
cap purr nick
all right anyways the birthmark was
named after a walk-on wide-out matt
pernick
who had which is ironic that his name
rhymes with kaepernick but matt had
wild hair much like the hair on drew's
birthmark according to a sports
illustrated story
that was elaborate but as for drew he
had his own nickname that we'll get to
later in this video
multiple members of his receiving corps
told sports illustrated about how there
were always moments where
they couldn't see brees in the backfield
they were looking for him they couldn't
see him
but somehow brees always managed to put
the ball directly into their hands
that is how impressive he was nick saban
who was an nfl assistant for six years
and coached against drew in college at
michigan state
said at the time brees reminds me of joe
montana he makes you feel that play
after play
you're about to do something big against
him and then he does something big
against you it's incredibly frustrating
for a coach or a team
breeze studied industrial management at
purdue where he maintained a 3.2 grade
point average but
he was also focused on studying game
film breeze would head to the football
team office after his classes
arriving as late as 11 p.m on some
nights he would study game film and
learn how to improve with every tape and
it paid off
he came a long way from his first start
in his sophomore year
because in his senior year he led the
squad to a big ten championship they
also made it to the rose bowl for the
first time since 1967. in 2000 he won
the maxwell award for the nation's most
outstanding player of the year
and he was also third in heisman trophy
voting after coming in fourth the year
prior produced drew brees
gonna be able to drop your hips right
here look at him change the ball to his
left hand back to his right hand
protecting it and keeping it away from
the defenders
in 2001 drew brees graduated from purdue
with a degree in industrial management
and was also a member of the sigma chai
fraternity in his career with purdue he
set
two ncaa records 13 big 10 conference
records
and 19 purdue university records i guess
the guy didn't really do much while he
was there huh
one of those records included a big 10
conference record in passing yards with
close to 12 000
td passes with 90 and he tied an ncaa
record for longest pass with a 99 yarder
to his teammate vinnie sutherland
so after a more than impressive college
career drew brees was projected to be a
mid to late first round draft pick but
many teams were worried about how short
drew was compared to most nfl
quarterbacks
he was barely six feet tall people were
also worried that his college's
offensive scheme was the real reason for
his success
so brees slipped to the second round and
was selected by the san diego
superchargers
in the 2001 nfl draft san diego
originally had the first pick in the
draft but traded it to atlanta
who went with michael vick who is also
one of my favorite players of all time
well before you know the whole thing but
breeze had a long road to the top in the
nfl as well
after a handful of seasons with san
diego and winning the nfl's comeback
player of the year award
he headed to new orleans where he became
what we now know as one of the greatest
quarterbacks of all time
plus he won the city of new orleans a
ring which is most important
the city needed it but that's all in a
day's work for the guy who was known
as cool breeze in college but as for the
rest of the story well you know it
because this is before they're famous
dream good look better i hope you have
one heck of a day
and i will see you in another video
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