With Brady in Patriots HOF, question now becomes ‘What about Bill?’ originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
FOXBORO – Over? Did you say over? Oh, it’s not over. Tom Brady Day/Night/Week may have felt like culmination and punctuation. It wasn’t. Not by a fair sight.
Beyond the 12-foot statue they’re going to produce and unveil sometime this season (good thing he didn’t decide to wear No. 19), events on events are still to come hearkening back to the glory days of 2001 to 2019.
Remember, the line into the Patriots Hall of Fame remains long. We still have ahead of us Gronk Day, Edelman Day, McCourty Day and Slater Day. Maybe there’s a Hightower Day, an Andrews Day and a Jimmy White Day.
Most notable is the only day that will rival Brady’s. That’s Bill Belichick Day.
Every single clap, whistle and cheer for Bill on Wednesday night was delivered with a little different emotion than the ones for Brady, but they carried just as much intensity. Maybe more.
For Brady, everything was full-on adulation and appreciation. It’s been 1,550 days since St. Patrick’s Day 2020 when Brady bid adieu to New England. His choice. Not really. Whatever.
But every conflicting emotion the region’s had, whether it’s “The Patriots never should have let him go …” or “Tom wanted out…” has long since been resolved. The Tampa epilogue left very little doubt that Brady was the engine of the Patriots from 2010 to 2019 even if he wasn’t the architect/engineer/designer. It sucked that he left. But it wouldn’t have gotten any more comfortable if he’d stayed because the team was on a slow slide to mediocre and beyond.
So now, it’s all love (and some eyerolling as he continues an amazing seven-year run with his lips firmly wrapped around the firehose of celebrity attention and drinks in everything he eschewed from 2001 to about 2016).
With Belichick, we’re at 153 days since January 11. Things remain complicated. There are camps with conflicting views all over New…
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Publish date : 2024-06-14 15:44:14
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