When did football player Tom Brady sustain an injury?
Brady did not play any of the 2008 preseason due to a right foot injury from the previous AFC Championship game. In the Patriots’ 2008 season opener against the Kansas City Chiefs at Gillette Stadium, Brady’s left knee was seriously injured midway through the first quarter on a hit by Chiefs safety Bernard Pollard; he left the game and did not return. The team later confirmed that Brady would need surgery, and that he had been placed on injured reserve for the remainder of the season. It is believed he tore both his anterior cruciate ligament and his medial collateral ligament. The injury ended Brady’s streak of 111 consecutive starts (fourth in the list of most consecutive starts by an NFL quarterback, behind Brett Favre, Peyton Manning, and Ron Jaworski). Tom was originally expected to be ready for Training Camp in 2009. Tom’s recovery has been delayed due to the fact that there have been some post surgery complications. An infection in the wound which resulted in further debridement
Reporting from Foxborough, Mass. – As a three-time Super Bowl champion and former NFL most valuable player, New England quarterback Tom Brady is used to having fans fall at his feet. The big question: Can he get comfortable with players doing the same? Brady, who suffered a season-ending knee injury in the first quarter of last season’s opener, says he feels fine now and is looking forward to showing his recovery is complete. “I’ve kind of made a concerted effort to move on,” he said. “That was last season and this is this season.” But Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer, who in early 2006 suffered a remarkably similar knee injury, said the psychological effects linger even now. “The biggest part was the mental block of the confidence of following though on your throws,” said Palmer, who, like Brady, suffered tears of the anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments in his left knee. “Still to this day I’m trying to get over this mental block. There’s just somebody somewh
