Forget Tom Brady and the Buccaneers. Drew Brees stole the show in the first NFL game of the season. More specifically, his hair stole the show.
When we last saw the future hall-of-famer suiting up for the Saints, he looked like this.
On Thursday night for his TV debut, he looked like this.
The newly minted NBC analyst was apparently the beneficiary of recent growth! His hairline moved forward by a considerable amount.
While he is receiving mostly positive reviews for his analysis of the game, Drew Brees was the subject of social media chatter relating to his hairline. It came in from fans and sports media colleagues alike.
The staff of the Dan Le Batard Show took it a step further. In their postgame show, Mike Ryan commented not just on the hair, but on the fresh tan Drew Brees was showing off as well remarking “what a glow up!”.
Dan Patrick really should get some credit here. Even before Brees made his retirement official, Patrick noticed the revitalized hairline. That was all the evidence he needed that Drew Brees’s playing days were over.
“That’s the tip off,” Patrick said in March on his FOX Sports Radio show. “Drew Brees is truly retiring because he now has a full head of hair. I don’t know where he got it, but he has a full head of hair, he is ready for TV.”
It will be fun to see how or if this conversation continues in the coming weeks. Between Football Night in America and Notre Dame games, Drew Brees will be on television plenty. Surely at some point, if the social chatter continues, he or one of his colleagues will have to address it.
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