FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- The New England Patriots unveiled a 12-foot bronze statue of Tom Brady outside Gillette Stadium on Friday, the culmination of a promise owner Robert Kraft made last year when Brady was inducted into the team's Hall of Fame.

The size wasn't a coincidence as Brady wore jersey No. 12 over his 20-year Patriots career, in which he helped lead the Patriots to six Super Bowl championships.

"This is quite overwhelming to me," Brady said, before turning to humor, which he did multiple times over his six-minute speech.

"I feel extremely honored, deeply grateful and if I'm being honest, kind of old. I'm also a little surprised, because usually they don't build statues until you're really old, like [Mike] Vrabel and [Tedy] Bruschi."

Vrabel, who was Brady's teammate from 2001

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