Many consider former New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady the best to ever play.
With seven Super Bowl championships, three MVPs, five Super Bowl MVPs, and 15 Pro Bowls, it's certainly difficult to argue against him.
But all of that winning and all of the personal accolades that Brady collected over his 23-year NFL career came at a price.
During a recent video uploaded to his YouTube channel in which he participates in a cooking challenge with celebrity chef Nick DiGiovanni, Brady revealed there's one injury he suffered during his career that still bothers him to this day.
"Tom, you have the chef hands," DiGiovanni commented as Brady grabbed hot waffles straight out of a waffle maker. "That means you can tough really, really hot stuff and you don't flinch, you don't have any issue with it."
"These fingers got pretty beat up over a long period of time. See that finger?" Brady said, referencing the middle finger on his right hand. "Can't even bend that finger anymore. Even if you try to straighten it (it falls) - torn ligament."
Brady also revealed that he tore ligaments in two other fingers on that hand, and he broke two others.
Tom Brady shows off his permanently injured right middle finger. YouTube (Tom Brady) YouTube (Tom Brady)
There are even multiple pictures of Brady from his days in the NFL where he can be seen having trouble keeping his right middle finger straight.
One of the times Brady injured his throwing hand cam back before the 2016 AFC Championship game when he cut the palm of his hand after inadvertently striking teammate Rex Burkhead's helmet during practice. Fans were worried it would affect him and the Patriots' chances of making another Super Bowl run.
However, the injury hardly affected Brady much at all as he led the Patriots to a 36-17 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers followed by a 34-28 overtime win over the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl LI, in which he orchestrated a 25-point comeback.
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This story was originally published March 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM.