If you would have told me before this week that I’d watch Drew Brees play a didgeridoo at a brand event in the lead up to Super Bowl LIII, I wouldn’t have believed you. But here we are.
Martellus Bennett, Juju Smith-Schuster, and Drew Brees can make any event so much fun
Drew Brees played a didgeridoo during Super Bowl week festivities, and yes, you read that correctly.
Jeanna Kelley has been covering the Falcons for The Falcoholic since 2011 and the NFL for SB Nation since 2015.
Brees joined Steelers receiver Juju Smith-Schuster and retired tight end Martellus Bennett at a Microsoft event showcasing a new Netflix show, ‘The Umbrella Academy’ and the Microsoft Surface tablet.
I’ve been to plenty of these brand events featuring players, and they’re usually a mixed bag. For this one, Bennett moderated a panel featuring Schuster, Brees, and two of the stars of ‘The Umbrella Academy,’ Tom Hopper and David Castañeda, as well as showrunner Steve Blackman.
The series, which will premiere on Netflix on Feb. 15, features a group of people with super powers, so Bennett led a fun segment where he’d read a “super power,” and the panel members had to try to figure out which of the other folks on stage with them had that power. One was playing the didgeridoo, and guess what? That’s something that Drew Brees apparently knows how to do. I only believe it because I’ve seen it with my own eyes.
Smith-Schuster is a hell of a receiver, so maybe it shouldn’t surprise you that his super power is being able to catch things in his mouth from far away. Of course he proved it by having future Hall of Fame quarterback Brees toss him some candy from across the stage.
I only got the last two tosses on camera. He caught three and missed the last one. Not bad!
Bennett’s a true renaissance man. He owns his own creative company, The Imagination Agency. He’s written children’s books, including a new one called ‘Dear Black Boy’. And he can apparently rap.
After the event, Bennett told me he decided to be a part of the event because he uses the Surface tablet in a lot of the creative work he does with The Imagination Agency.
I also asked Bennett for his top three Atlanta rappers of all time. He chose Outkast (technically two rappers, Big Boi and Andre 3000, but we’ll let it slide), 2 Chainz, and Young Jeezy, “just because of the old body of work.” He also told my colleague Natalie Weiner that he’s “the black Ellen Degeneres” and challenged Ellen to a dance off, which we’d really like to see happen.
Smith-Schuster’s top three Atlanta rappers were Migos and Lil Baby, then he needed help figuring out the third one. I recommended T.I., and he agreed. And of course I seized the opportunity to ask him about my favorite dog on the internet, his pup Boujee.
A recommendation for the brands: Just have Martellus Bennett host everything, and ask him to bring along Juju, Brees, and a didgeridoo, too.
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