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Drew Brees - Bad accident or Bad Taste?


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Sure looks fake. Seems like the only coverage of it seems to be linked to the video. I feel like if this were a credible story, we'd have heard about it happening from legitimate news sources before the video made its way online.

Lightning strikes are incredibly loud and incredibly bright. At night a lightning strike that close would absolutely white out a camera with a night filter on. It wouldn't just be a little blue flash in the corner of the screen. And would have clipped the audio rather than a perfectly piped in "thunder" sound effect.

I'm calling BS and poor taste.

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This was not Florio’s best or most careful work, but it did create the conditions under which ESPN’s Saints reporter Katherine Terrell sent this context-free tweet:

Anyway, the whole thing was cooked up by an online sportsbook that thought it would be a good idea to try and drum up publicity by pretending to get Drew Brees killed. It’s back to the drawing board for those marketing geniuses.

https://defector.com/drew-brees-struck-by-idiotic-marketing-ploy-not-lightning/

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