With all of the press and notoriety that has come with Drew Brees winning this years Super Bowl MVP award, I felt the need to dig a little deeper and get the answer to the one burning question on everyone’s mind. Just what in the hell is on Drew Brees’s face? Although the answer was elusive at first, I was able to uncover a section of a NY Times article published on Brees in January of 2005. Apparently people have been wondering about this thing for a long time.
“He was too short (he is listed at 6 feet), too weak, and besides, he always looked like he had mud on his face. Anyone taking a closer look would have noticed that the blemish on his right cheek was a birthmark, but it was so often confused for a patch of dirt that girls dancing with Brees would sometimes lick their fingers and try to wipe it off.”
“The hairy birthmark has become a symbol of Brees’s imperfections, which are noticeable but somehow charming. When Brees was 3, his parents considered having the birthmark removed, but doctors said that there was no harm in keeping it and suggested that the boy had been kissed by an angel. When he was in college and made the Playboy all-American team, the magazine airbrushed the birthmark from a photo that it ran. Looking back, it was like airbrushing Cindy Crawford’s mole. A teammate wore Brees’s jersey to a Halloween party and applied a black mark to his cheek. The costume quickly became part of the fall wardrobe in West Lafayette, Ind. The stands would be filled with followers who smeared mud or mascara or some other substance on their faces.”
Well there you have it. For all of us hoping it was some type if scar from a bear fight on Bourbon Street or where his Siamese twin was removed from, I am sorry to break the news to you. Congrats to you Drew on your Superbowl victory, and if I ever see you I will try my best not to point and say moley…moley…moley…
