A rugby player in Australia has decided he’d rather live the rest of his life with nine-and-a-half fingers than miss the start of this season.
Angus Crichton, a 21-year-old player for for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the National Rugby League, has been plagued by an injury to his left middle finger for his entire career. He already had six surgeries on the finger and a seventh would have sidelined him for the beginning of the 2018 season. Instead, Crichton told doctors just to lop off the top half of the finger, his manager confirmed to Fox Sports Australia.