They brought Tom Brady back to Foxborough last night to induct him into the New England Patriots Hall of Fame, and Bill Belichick was there and team owner Robert Kraft was there and 60,000 fans were there, which is pretty impressive when you consider it's summer and the Cape beckons and Foxborough is not exactly the least remote place on earth.
But, hey. When you're honoring the greatest player in franchise history, and one of the greatest players in the history of the game, people will come, Ray. People will come.
So they came and Kraft got up and announced that no New England Patriot would wear Brady's No. 12 ever again, and then he announced that sometime this year the Patriots would erect a statue of Brady outside Gillette Stadium.
The statue, naturally, will stand 12 feet tall.
And right off that got me thinking about Peyton Manning.
Who of course was Brady's great rival all those years, and who made a surprise appearance at Brady's induction last night. And whose own statue stands outside Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, looking downfield for Marvin or Reggie -- who, judging from the orientation of the statue, must have been running a slant through the lobby of the JW Marriott across the street.
Peyton's statue is nine feet tall. I looked it up.
And now, somewhere in the inner recesses of my diseased mind, I can see Brady acknowledging this, and I can already hear the exchange ...
Tom: "Ha! Beat you again, Manning! Neener-neener-neener!"
Peyton: "Dammit!"
On it goes.
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