Tom Brady Reveals Which NFL Player He Would Get Tattooed on His Back

Tom Brady doesn't appear to have any tattoos, unless he really did get former Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians raising a beer tattooed on his leg.

But if the former New England Patriots QB had to get a back tattoo (and if, for some arbitrary reason, that tattoo had to be of an NFL player), we now know who it would be courtesy of Brady's podcast.

On a recent episode of the Let's Go podcast with journalist Jim Gray, Brady answered a few questions submitted by fans. The queries included "How many yards could you throw a pillow?" Roughly 20, per Brady and "What's the biggest difference between you and Batman?" To which Brady answered, "He's got a better car."

But the really hard-hitting journalism arrived when Gray asked Brady which player he would get inked on his back if he had no other choice.

Brady laughed and considered the question.

"I would get something with Ronnie Lott," Brady answered finally. "Tattooing what I loved about him. Maybe the finger he got cut off, how about that? His toughness..."

"How did we get these questions?" Brady added. "For God's sake."

Lott is an interesting choice, but one that makes a fair amount of sense for a football-obsessed person like Brady who grew up a 49ers fan.

Lott is widely considered one of the greatest safeties of all time, with an impressive list of career accolades including eight First-Team All-Pro selections, 10 Pro-Bowl appearances, four Super Bowl victories and selections to both the 1980s and 1990s All-Decade Teams.

Brady, who has won more Super Bowls than any other NFL player with seven, certainly has plenty of reason to respect what Lott accomplished.

As Brady also noted, Lott made the decision to have a broken pinkie finger amputated in 1986 to avoid a lengthy recovery with reconstructive surgery. Lott later told The Associated Press seeing his amputated finger made him feel "sick."

"I tried to stand up, but I broke into a cold sweat," Lott said at the time. "It was just a total shock. I thought, 'Oh, man, I should have had the pin put in.' We are losing the compassionate side of sports. We're becoming gladiators. If I ever become a coach, I hope I never lose sight of the fact that players are people. They feel. They have emotions."

Still, Lott's work ethic led to enormous success at the professional level.

"The way I play is important to me, because I know I'm not gifted with great athletic ability or speed," Lott said, per the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

"But God always gives you the ability to do one thing, and that's to try hard. That's my attitude. If that means going out and running into somebody who's bigger or faster or tougher than you, you just do it."

With quotes like that, Brady's admiration of Lott is easy to understand.

"What a stud he was," Brady remarked to Gray on the podcast.