New England Patriots fans won’t forget the Wednesday before the AFC Championship game in 2018.
News broke after New England’s practice that Tom Brady had a mysterious hand injury, with the severity being heavily concealed. Brady missed the rest of practice, missed the press conference and then showed up with his throwing hand wrapped up.
Bill Belichick downplayed the injury by saying, “we’re not talking about open-heart surgery here.” Everyone took that information, realized Brady was going to play and moved on quickly.
An excerpt from Jeff Benedict’s book, ‘The Dynasty’, revealed that Brady’s injury was much more gruesome than most people believed.