FOXBOROUGH, Mass. —
Tom Brady’s place in Patriot Nation was immortalized Friday when a bronze statue was unveiled outside Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
The 12-foot statue portrays Brady with a fist in the air, holding his helmet in his other hand. It sits on a 5-foot base shaped to represent the six Super Bowl championships that Brady helped the Patriots win.
“Seeing myself as a statue isn’t something I could have imagined growing up. When I was drafted, I just hoped to make the team. I never dreamed I’d be standing here two and a half decades later, made of bronze and frozen in time,” Brady said.
Brady joked that it is the first time in his life that Boston sports writers will describe him as “chiseled.”
He thanked the Kraft family for giving him “a place to play foo