OMG,
If you watched EVERY game of his college-career you wouldn't say that about my boy Drew. The signs were always there. I knew he had the heart of a champion.
When the Chargers drafted Rivers, my boys breaks out and goes All-Pro. They asked him before the pro bowl, after the previous season and the drafting of Rivers, was he surprised to be where he is. He straight up told them no, he expected to be there. He demanded it of himself. That's how it's always been with him.
Senior year, we're down 28-10 at the half, at home to Michigan. All of my friends in our section at Ross-Ade are just cussing and bitching, throwing in the towel. I looked at everybody calmly and said, shut the fuck up, we've got Brees and we're gonna win this game. We're getting the ball to start the 3rd, and we're going to score. Then we hold, and we score again. And we're right back in it.
The rest is history and Brees does exactly what I predicted and we go on to win the game in dramatic fashion.
It was like that every game with him. He's got that "something special" that not everybody has inside them. Heart of a champion.
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Get well soon, MCA!
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