You think Oprah Winfrey, with her gazillions of dollars, would have hired a top-notch research team.  You would think that, wouldn’t you.

You’d be wrong.

Because it seems that neither she, nor anyone on her monumental staff, thought to do a little research into Drew Brees before his appearance on Oprah’s show.  A picture of the Saints quarterback might have been a good place to start.  It’s not like there’s this little thing called the Internet where you might be able to find a picture of Breesus–or that the Saints recently won some sort of large, impressive, end-of-season game, and that Brees mug was plastered on every friggin’ newspaper in North America.

Maybe if anyone had taken the time, Oprah might have known that Drew Brees has a fairly large birthmark…on his FACE!

But then if she did, we wouldn’t have this piece of golden awkwardness, thanks to Oprah, channeling her inner overbearing mother, trying to rub Brees’ birthmark right off his face…

And though I can’t prove it, I hear that after the show, Oprah went after Brees’ birthmark with some bleach and an S.O.S. pad.

[H/T to The Sporting Blog]