{"id":495149,"date":"2025-08-09T05:38:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T09:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=495149"},"modified":"2025-08-09T05:39:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T09:39:54","slug":"patriots-unveil-tom-brady-statue-outside-the-stadium","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/patriots-unveil-tom-brady-statue-outside-the-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots unveil Tom Brady statue outside the stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New England Patriots presented a bronze statue of Tom Brady outside Gillette Stadium as the owner of the franchise, Robert Kraft, said he would do when the legendary quarterback was inducted into the organization\u2019s Hall of Fame in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The statue is 12 feet tall to represent the number 12 jersey that Brady wore during his 20-year career with New England as he triumphed with 6 Super Bowls during that period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very honored to have a statue here,\u201d shared Tom at the beginning of his speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is something phenomenal, and I love that they did it before I\u2019m really old,\u201d joked Brady.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THE GOAT. IN BRONZE.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomBrady?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TomBrady<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@NFL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Fm0TvQoOvH\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Fm0TvQoOvH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New England Patriots (@Patriots) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Patriots\/status\/1953945135064252591?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Tom also talked about his early days in the organization and how he wanted to get a chance to be on the field after being picked in the 6<sup>th<\/sup> round of the 2000 NFL Draft, and admitted that he never expected to have the career that he had and to stand here today at his statue unveiling.<\/p>\n<p>The unveiling of his statue happened 1 and a half hours before the Pats\u2019 preseason opener vs. the Commanders. New England won that match 48-18 to make the mood among its fans even better.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThis statue isn\u2019t just for Pats fans. It will also give all the Jets fans something to throw their beers at as they leave the stadium every year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tom Brady takes a shot at Jets fans \ud83d\udc80<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Patriots?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Patriots<\/a>)<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ve5ks3czmn\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Ve5ks3czmn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1953946969422147921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New England Patriots presented a bronze statue of Tom Brady outside Gillette Stadium as the owner of the franchise, Robert Kraft, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":495152,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17487,16749],"news_category":[16703,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18130,18414],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Brady now has a statue outside Gillette Stadium.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495151,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495149\/revisions\/495151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495149"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=495149"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=495149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}