The Tom Brady Legend Grows
August 31st, 2020
If you missed this over the weekend, it’s one more stunning gold star on the resumé of Tom Brady, the most successful quarterback in NFL history.
The nugget comes from the fingertips of author Jeff Benedict, whose book on the Patriots comes out tomorrow and already has received rave reviews.
The New York Post published a book excerpt that explains and nearly every detail of Tom Brady’s fluke hand injury/surgery to his throwing hand suffered in practice before the AFC Championship game of the 2017 season — as well as the Patriots cover-up and Brady defying the pleading of his doctor.
This little snippet doesn’t do it justice, but you can read the whole thing via the link above.
But it wasn’t nearly that simple this time. Just four days after a surgery on his throwing thumb that took 25 stitches to close, Brady was compromised. He was also still in a lot of pain. On game day, Leibman could have given him a shot to numb up the area around the wound, but Brady declined, saying he didn’t want to do anything that would limit his feel for the ball. The Patriots, meanwhile, insisted that Leibman be on the sideline in the event that Brady split open his hand and treatment was required during the game.
About five minutes prior to kickoff, Brady walked into the medical training room adjacent to the locker room, where Leibman was laying out his instruments.
Startled, Leibman stopped what he was doing.
Brady closed the door behind him, drew the blinds, and took a seat on a stool. Then he rested his chin on the training table. Staring ahead with a diabolical gaze, he extended his arm across the table, opened his hand, and calmly said: “Will you trim the tails of the sutures? I don’t want them touching the ball.”…
Needless to say, Brady didn’t listen to the doctors through the post-surgery process and pressured the surgeon to work in him just seconds before kickoff.
What a freak Brady is. Joe hopes a bunch of Bucs players read this whole story and get inspired even more to play with Brady.
August 31st, 2020 at 2:11 pm
Chuck Norris wears TB12 Underoos.
August 31st, 2020 at 2:41 pm
This is why injury excuses are weak it’s the nfl everyone is hurt. A lot of times we don’t even know about surgery until a player speak on it later on. Everyone plays hurt at some point or another.
August 31st, 2020 at 3:11 pm
When stitches get cut and go to the ER, they have to get Tom Brady’d up!
August 31st, 2020 at 3:21 pm
He ripped open a 25 stitch cut on the thumb of his throwing hand 4 days before the AFC Championship Game. I think that’s a pretty big deal for your starting QB and hardly “weak” in hindsight. We didn’t even begin to hear the details of it’s severity until a few weeks after the Super Bowl. He still went 26-38 for 290 and 2 TD’s vs. Jacksonville.
August 31st, 2020 at 4:11 pm
YOU DID IT JOE!!! Paid Some RESPECT FINALLY!! GREAT JOB!!
the resumé of Tom Brady, the most successful quarterback in NFL history.
Thank you JOE
August 31st, 2020 at 4:27 pm
Paul go cry about it someone else. You’ve quickly become almost as annoying as rhealist
August 31st, 2020 at 5:39 pm
A lunatic (in a good way) on defense in JPP and now one on offense with Brady. I’m about out of patience for this damn season to start and I have a lot. Football!
August 31st, 2020 at 9:09 pm
Good nickname Joe!!
Brady is an Irish King!
Not a joke or a clown.
Brady means “spirited” in The Irish Language of Gaelic.
Go Bucs!
September 1st, 2020 at 6:30 pm
Tom I can’t tell you how much I followed your career I am 72 years old and before anything happens to me healthwise I want to watch you play in Tampa I live in Hollywood Florida it’s not far I’ve admired your career and stamina I think you are the kindest gentlest greatest quarterback better ever touch the football I have tried to find a way to see if I can get a ticket to your first game but for some reason I’m not having any luck you don’t know how much it means to me to watch you play in Tampa I am from Boston of course I was a Patriots fan and I guess I always will be but I am a strong Brady fan where you go I go and I can’t tell you how much it would mean to me someday to watch you play in Tampa or anywhere I tried to get Super Bowl tickets I never had the fortunate ability funds I am not sick thank God and I’m probably your dad’s age my son is 50 pretty close and my only way before anything ever happens that I watch you receive your uncle jacket into the Hall of Fame which could be 7 to 8 years from now making me around 80 I think you have done more for the game and in me you have no idea how much I’ve watched you played speak in respect how you handle yourself in your family I certainly can understand how close you are to your family as I am to mine and maybe someday I’ll get down Tampa a watch my favorite athlete ever play in person my son was a pretty good athlete and every time he sees me watch you play he tells me I have a man crush on Tom Brady we get a kick out of it I am a fan of yours and I wish you all the best in your life and your family and your career God bless you and your family and I wish you a wonderful career and wouldn’t it be something if the Super Bowl ended up being played in Tampa and the Bucks playing in there their home field my final dream in life would be to watch you play a Superbowl in Tampa Bay it would be one of the greatest days of my life besides giving life to my children maybe you’ll get this time and maybe you won’t but I will root you on and pray for you
September 2nd, 2020 at 11:35 am
Same here buddy I’m from mass life long pats fan major Brady Fan now living in Florida after being blown up in the Ozarks my dream is for Brady to come here and Win big!!! I’m hurt to bad to go to the game in person right now. But I still wish that you could go just to Yell and scream for our boy I would rather you went than not and who knows maybe you will be blessed and be able to go some how. We are so lucky/ blessed to have Tom here a week with out watching him play it just a drag! I’m just so glad I will be able to see him play if only on TV but I promise this if I some how got a supper bowl Ticket I would Drag my blown up body into stadium to watch it nothing could stop me if I had to crawl lol so good luck buddy and hey maybe some one see’s this post and we both get our dream to see Tom play live before our time is up good luck buddy