Joe Burrow is one of the hottest names in football right now; the quarterback led the undefeated LSU Tigers to last year’s National Championship Game victory, but even the presumptive first-overall pick in the 2020 NFL Draft gets starstruck. During his press conference at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, Burrow looked back on his first meeting with New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees:
“Yeah I always watch Drew Brees. I think he’s the best at what he does,” Burrow replied when asked which NFL passers he makes a habit of studying. “We had very similar offenses last year so I watched a lot of his film in the offseason. and that was my idol growing up. I got to meet him after the national championship game and saw him again last week. I was trying to be all cool, like, ‘Yeah I know what I’m talking about,’ but then on the inside it’s like, ‘I’m talking to Drew Brees about football,’ so it was really, really cool.”
Burrow has said before that he grew up a Saints fan, having first paid real attention to the NFL when Brees and Reggie Bush were leading the team to relevance in the years following Hurricane Katrina. But he elaborated on his childhood fandom, which he said began as a Minnesota Vikings supporter (when his family lived in nearby North Dakota) before he took up the Saints support, and briefly detoured into Cleveland Browns territory (after moving to Ohio). He ended the explanation by joking that, “I was kind of a bandwagon fan.”
