Drew Brees Height, Weight, Age, Girlfriends, Family, Biography and More
Some Lesser Known Facts About Drew Brees
- Does Drew Brees smoke?: Not Known
- Does Drew Brees drink alcohol?: Yes
- Brees’s father Eugene Wilson “Chip” Brees II was a prominent lawyer and his mother Mina Ruth was an attorney.
- When Brees was seven, his parents divorced and shared custody of Brees and his younger brother, who split their time between both parents’ homes. Today, Brees admits that it was a very tough and challenging life after the divorce of his parents, however, Brees and his younger brother, Reid, supported each other and became very close.
- Brees and Reid have a younger half-sister, Audrey, from their father’s remarriage to Amy Hightower, daughter of the late U.S. Representative (D-TX) Jack English Hightower.
- Brees’s father played basketball for the Texas A&M Aggies men’s basketball team, and his mother was a former all-state in three sports in high school.
- Brees’s maternal uncle, Marty Akins, was an All-American starting quarterback for the Texas Longhorns college football team from 1975 to 1977.
- His younger brother, Reid played baseball and was an outfielder for the Baylor Bears baseball team, which made the 2005 College World Series, and now he resides in Colorado, where he is a salesman.
- In High School, Brees played Baseball and Basketball as well.
- Brees and his wife Brittany set up the Brees Dream Foundation in 2003, which works to support the cancer research and patients suffering from it.
- In June 2010, Drew Brees, along with former Olympian Dominique Dawes, was appointed by then President Barack Obama as the co-chair of the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition.
- In 2010, Brees was awarded best male athlete and best NFL player at the ESPY.