Heading into the Thursday Night Football game between the San Francisco 49ers and New York Giants, seemingly no one was aware, but in the postgame coverage and festivities, former Stanford Cardinal and Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck showed up on set.
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Not only did he show up on set, but he was dressed in Civil War-like regalia, paying homage to the parody account of him, @CaptAndrewLuck.
https://twitter.com/FOS/status/1705190888031363564
Charissa Thompson, a host for Amazon's coverage of Thursday Night Football, welcomed Luck onto the set.
The camera panned to him, and we immediately saw his outfit. He was greeted with much applause from fellow former NFL players, including Richard Sherman, Tony Gonzalez, Ryan Fitzpatrick, and Andrew Whitworth.
After he settles in, Thompson says, "This is where the kids say, 'if you know you know'—Andrew, welcome to the show and thank you for being here. How have you been?"
Luck responds, "Great! The war is over."
As Thompson mentioned "If you know, you know." The account @CaptAndrewLuck was sensational during Luck's playing days. The account's content was based on Luck being a Civil War character and penning letters to his mother while using lingo to mention the teams he played that week.
Here's an example.
https://twitter.com/CaptAndrewLuck/status/1164163094513217537
As you'll see, that post was from August 2019, just before Luck retired. So, not only did we lose Luck in the NFL, we lost this fantastic parody account.
https://twitter.com/CaptAndrewLuck/status/1166696013144264704
One of the account's last tweets was on March 29, 2020, but returned on May 8 and 22 this year. Since then, it had been dormant until Luck returned to the show.
https://twitter.com/CaptAndrewLuck/status/1705230999230288254
As mentioned, Luck abruptly retired before the start of the 2019 season. There were many reasons for the retirement, but injuries were undoubtedly part of it.
He was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2012 NFL Draft. In his final season with the Colts, he completed 66.2% of his passes for 5,018 yards, 42 touchdowns, and 16 interceptions. He remains one of the biggest "what ifs" in football, especially based on his final season, which still consisted of 16 games.
Today, Luck is more of a private person, which made this appearance much more jarring, but he has recently been seen helping coach high school football.
