Ronnie Lott’s Mangled Finger — Tales of Sports Foolishness (ep. 3)
377Did Ronnie Lott really cut off his pinkie finger so he could get back to a football game? Let’s look back at one of the most famous, gruesome injuries in NFL history.
It's Tales of Sports Foolishness!
Notes:
*At the 9-minute mark, I meant to say "his FINGER," not his hand. D'oh!
*The following is an excerpt from the 1986 AP article referenced in the video, which I couldn’t fit into the video but thought was interesting and worth posting nonetheless: “He felt people staring at his finger, and he wore bandages on it long after it healed. He couldn't bring himself to show his girlfriend. When he finally did, and she said, ‘It looks great,’ he was sure she was protecting his feelings. One morning he was in the bathroom and knocked a pair of scissors off the counter. Without thinking he grabbed for them, and when he looked down they were dangling from the tip of his shortened finger. ‘Dang, I used it,’ he remembers thinking. ‘It doesn't sound like much, but that was a helluva hurdle.’”
*I made this video back when my username was not Velodus, hence the "video by" at the end being different. Carry on.
Music courtesy of: Soundmurderer aka. Todd Osborn (https://twitter.com/soundmurderer)
Thumbnail by: FORGE (https://twitter.com/Digital4rge)
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