New Orleans Saints defensive end Alex Brown still has the scar on his hand from his most unforgettable battle in the trenches.
It took place on his family farm when he was a senior in high school. He came home after practice to find that two hogs had gotten loose. Though he admitted that all he wanted to do was lay down and get some rest, his mom told him that he had to go out and help her corral them back into their pen.
"The first one runs in, boom, open the gate, corner him off, he runs right in. The next one, he doesn't want to do that," Brown recalled. "He tries to run by me, so I dive at him, and my finger goes across his tooth. It tore my nerve, everything. So I'm so ****** off now. So I grab the hog and just kind of push him in, and I'm thinking, 'You've got to be kidding me.'"