Tom Brady's right eye is still red. (Bob Breidenbach/Twitter)
Tom Brady's right eye is still red. (Bob Breidenbach/Twitter)

Tom Brady showed up to Thursday's press conference as handsome as ever -- save one small detail: Five days after a Ravens player appeared to poke the Patriots quarterback in his right eye, it was still red.

Here's how Brady explained what happened to reporters.

Q: How is that affecting you? Didn't seem like it at the end of the game.

Brady: No, it was good. It was just part of the tussle of football. Everyone deals with obviously different things, so this one is nothing fortunately.

Q: Was it on the quarterback sneak?

Brady: No, it was when I was arguing with that guy and then he poked me in the eye, and I was trying to yell at the ref. I said, 'He just poked me in the eye!' He obviously didn't see it.

Q: In the scrum or afterwards?

Brady: Afterwards.

Q: Sort of like an old professional wrestling move?

Brady: It's a good move, the eye gouge. You can't even do that in professional wrestling.

And here's Brady screaming his head off right after it appears that Ravens defensive lineman Timmy Jernigan poked him in the aforementioned eye.

No word on how Ray Lewis feels about all this.