Exclusive | NFL legends saw right through fake 49ers WRs $1.3M act: Thats not what an NFL dude looks like

There are apparently hundreds of minute details required to convincingly impersonate an NFL player.Daejon Love allegedly mastered enough of them to fool more than two dozen women. Carrying the helmet everywhere is apparently not one of them. People are sounding off in the comments of all the videos that have been circulating of Love trying to allegedly scam his victims by bringing his helmet everywhere with him.  California's top news, sports and entertainment delivered to your inbox every day.

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Never miss a story Love carried it in his passenger’s seat when he was driving.He brought it to restaurants, night clubs, car dealerships, even the barbershop.

If Love needed to prove to anyone that he was an NFL player, he would just whip out his replica helmet. Of course, most NFL players leave their helmets at the team practice facility and on the sidelines.But maybe the average person doesn’t know that. For Hall of Fame wide receiver Larry Fitgerald, he couldn’t get past the unattached visor. “The visor that wasn’t attached to the helmet was the one that made me bust up laughing,” Fitzgerald told The California Post in an exclusive interview last week.

“It was halfway on and halfway out.”Former USC Heisman Trophy winner Matt Leinart had another problem with the helmet: when he wore it during the infamous beach workout.Love, 35, is accused by federal authorities of constructing an elaborate fantasy in which he masqueraded as a San Francisco 49ers player while allegedly defrauding at least 26 women out of approximately $1.3 million.The FBI believes there could be many more victims.For Leinart and Fitzgerald, former Arizona Cardinals teammates who actually lived inside the NFL world Love allegedly tried to counterfeit, the football portion of the performance was almost comically unconvincing.“I s...