Beware Carolina: New Orleans Saint Drew Brees is a Sore Loser

Drew and Britney Brees looked so much happier on 60 Minutes than Bill and Hillary Clinton did all those years ago.

Yeah, you know you've made it big alright when 60 Minutes wants to tell your life story to all of America.

It's an afternoon in August and 60 Minutes' Steve Kroft puts New Orleans Saints QB Drew Brees to the test.

Maybe he's a doubting Thomas...needs to see for himself to believe.

Thomas had to see the nail marks in Jesus' hands before he believed.

"Unless I see the nail marks in his hands... I will not believe it."

Steve Kroft needs to see Breesus use his golden hands to hit the crossbar from 30 yards away.

Clank, Clank, Clank!

The challenge is to hit the eight-inch crossbar 30 yards away and 10 feet off the ground as many times as possible.

Brees isn't perfect on this afternoon in August, but he's damned near close to perfect. His misses aren't all that far off.

Clank, Clank, Clunk! 

Drew Brees is not satisfied because he wasn't perfect.

"It's not my day," Brees tells Kroft.

"That's alright. It's not bad," Kroft says.

"No, it was terrible. You caught me on a bad day," Brees says.

"It wouldn't lose any sleep over it," Kroft says.

'I will," Brees says.

60 minutes probes Jonathan Vilma for any imperfection that Brees keeps hidden from the public eye. Some dirt only a teammate would know.

Tick. Tick. Tick.

Vilma laughs and says, "I will say he's not the best loser. I'll give you that much—he is definitely a sore loser."

Brees does not necessarily disagree with Vilma's assessment but he's sees it more as the confidence of a champion who has had to overcome the kind of agony that would have ruined a lesser man- his mother's suicide.

"I'm a very modest person but I am also extremely confident and if you put me in a situation, in the moment, I'm going to have a swagger, I'm going to have some cockiness, and, you know, there's not anything I don't think I can do." 

Tick. Tick. Tick.

You're Drew Brees and you've told these stories over and over again but 60 Minutes is your stage tonight and on this night you relish telling them again.

You're too short Drew!

"I don't believe that. I don't believe that you can be too short as a quarterback. It's not about height. It's about what you have here (pointing at his head) and right here." (pointing at his heart)

None of those f#*kin' Texas schools wanted you after you won the state championship at Westlake in Austin so you went to Purdue and shattered just about all of those Big Ten passing records...

"There's always a little bit of personal satisfaction when you prove somebody wrong," Brees tells Steve Kroft with the ever-so-slighest gleam in his eye.

Tick. Tick. Tick.

Steve Kroft asks Sean Payton what makes Brees so special?

"Let's forget for a second the intangibles, the work ethic. Let's forget the mental toughness. The intelligence. This unbelievable competitive spirit. It's the first time for me to be around someone that driven—and it motivates me," Payton says.  

Oh, hell yeah.

It's the kind of motivation that cause a guy in his mid-forties to get off the couch and run laps around Audubon Park in Uptown New Orleans.

Tick. Tick. Tick.

Statistically it's not in the cards Drew. Super Bowl champions don't repeat anymore. It's parity...F*#kin' parity is what they want...Goodell doesn't even want you guys to repeat...

Call him a sore loser. Call him cocky. Say he has a chip on his shoulder if you must.

Drew Brees says... this me baby and the rest...