When Sean Payton flipped on “Running Wild with Bear Grylls” on Monday night, he knew his franchise quarterback might be in for an up-close reptilian encounter.
What Payton didn’t know was how close. With Grylls — a popular figure Payton wasn’t familiar with — watching closely, Drew Brees jumped on a crocodile’s back in order to kill the animal for dinner.
“He is throwing a noose around an alligator’s (actually crocodile’s) mouth, and I am watching our quarterback jump on it, and it was all news to me,” Payton said. “I had heard something three, four, five months ago about him jumping on an alligator, but like I said, I didn’t envision the environment or the set-up to be like that.