Two nearly identical athletes who share a name take DNA test to see if they are secretly siblings
According to the experts, everyone on the planet statistically has around six people out there in the world who look exactly just like them.
The reality is, you’ll probably never know they exist but this isn’t the case for two athletes who discovered that they were almost identical to one another.
This comes as Brady Feigl, who is a pitcher for the Long Island Ducks, found out that he looks nearly exactly like another Brady Feigl, who just so happens to also be a pitcher for the Las Vegas Aviators.
Both of the men are the same height, standing at 6’4”, and both have red hair.
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To make things even more confusing, they both wear the same style of thick glasses so you can imagine why questions would crop up when they encountered each other.
One of the men shared that he was contacted about a surgery he’d had six months prior to ask when he was coming in for the op.
He recalled: “I was probably six or seven months out of surgery and their office called our trainer and said, ‘Hey, when’s Brady reporting for surgery? Is he getting down here tomorrow?’” he described to Inside Edition. “He was like, ‘He had it six months ago. What are you talking about?’ That’s how I found out there were two of us.”
After years of people pointing out the similarities, the two Bradys decided it was time to find answers.
Since neither had ever met another Feigl outside their own families, they went for a DNA test to see if they might be long-lost brothers - or if they were even related. And to the surprise of many, the DNA test showed that the Bradys weren’t actually related at all.
However, what it did show was that both Bradys had identical Germanic ancestry levels, each registering as 53% Germanic origin. On other levels, like personality, the pair were completely different.
Even if they aren’t identical twins, that doesn’t stop the wholesome Brady connection as the baseball players admitted they’re glad to have met each other and are ‘still brothers in a way’.
One of them remarked: “And we’re always going to be Brady Feigl.”
Funnily enough, the mystery continues for their friends and baseball fans online. On one occasion, someone wished Brady a happy birthday on X, formerly Twitter, but tagged the wrong one. In response, the other Brady laughed it off: "Wrong Brady Feigl. Might be looking for @bfeigl39.”