Two identical-looking athletes with same name get DNA test to see if they are long-lost siblings
Bec Oakes
Featured Image Credit: Inside Edition
It can be hard to imagine there being another 'you' out there, but that was the case for two athletes who are so alike they ended up getting a DNA test to see if they were related.
Brady Feigl is a 6'4 baseball player with red hair, a red beard and thick glasses.
Brady Feigl is also a 6'4 baseball player with red hair, a red beard and thick glasses.
No, I haven't just repeated myself by accident. There are two baseball-playing Brady Feigls out there and they look almost identical.
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One is a pitcher for Pittsburgh Pirates. The other was a pitcher for the Oakland Athletics but was released by the organization in June 2023.
The two athletes are so similar that everyone who sees them can't help but think: are they long-lost brothers?
Even they started to wonder whether they were related after a while. So, Inside Edition got them together to do a DNA test in the hopes of figuring it out once and for all.
It wouldn't be the first time a pair of long-lost siblings had ended up living insanely similar lives.
One of the most famous examples of this were the 'Jim twins', identical twins who were separated at birth and put up for adoption before discovering each other later in life.
When they finally reunited they realised they'd had the same interests along with a brother called Larry, a childhood dog named Toy, a first wife called Linda and a second wife named Betty.
They'd even both unknowingly given their firstborn sons the same name, and liked the same type of beer and brand of cigarettes.
Sadly for anyone hoping for another instance of the 'Jim twins' with the 'Brady twins', DNA testing revealed that these almost identical guys living almost identical lives weren't actually related after all.
Their one big similarity from the DNA test was the level of Germanic ancestry, with both registering as 53 percent Germanic in origin, but on every other measure they were different and therefore not secret siblings.
Hopes of some incredible family reunion were dashed, but the two Bradys are glad they met each other and said they were 'still brothers in a way.'
Doppelgängers like Brady and Brady actually aren't uncommon.
Apparently, every person in the world has about six of them. It's just a bit creepy that these two have the same name...