Tom Brady was a participant not like another, and the New England Patriots are treating him accordingly.
The Patriots held a sold-out ceremony at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. on Wednesday evening to honor Brady, who performed for the staff from 2000-19. In the course of the ceremony, Brady’s jersey was retired. No participant will put on jersey No. 12 once more for the Patriots. Brady was additionally inducted into the staff’s Corridor of Fame.
The Patriots are introduced that they’re doing one thing for Brady they’ve by no means completed for anybody else: they’re making a statue of him.
The Pats could have a 12-foot statue of Brady go up in the course of the 2024 season.
“We needed the best to be the best to obtain even a higher honor. So final yr we commissioned a neighborhood sculptor to create a larger-than-life bronze statue to perpetuate the legendary legacy of this once-in-a-lifetime participant,” Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft stated in the course of the celebration Wednesday.
