Sporting News- For over two decades, Tom Brady has been the face of New England sports.
On Wednesday night, he will become the face of the New England Patriots Hall of Fame.
Famed Boston comedian Bill Burr will emcee the event and deliver the opening monologue.
It will surely be a night to remember for Brady, his friends, family and fans.
Gillette was buzzing at 3:30pm when we arrived.
Season ticket holders in the EMC Vip lots tailgating in shorts and sandals with Buffett blasting.
Electricity in the air.
No bullshit, no joke.
So that fucked everything up.
Red tape and an archaic business model.
What a fucking joke.
The record is off of his 2003 albumThe Black Album.
“The Boys of Fall” is a track from Chesney’s 2010 albumHemingway’s Whiskey.
Island Records: The record label that releasedAll That it’s possible for you to’t Leave Behind.2.
Universal Music Group: The parent company of Island Records.3.
Universal Music Publishing Group: Handles the publishing rights for U2’s music.
But the thing about these fucking blood-sucking leeches that collect royalties for music licensing is they never stop.
You want to air it on local tv?
You gotta pay X.
You want to stream it on a national streaming data pipe?
You gotta pay Y.
And there are like half a dozen of them now.
There used to just be BMI and ASCAP.
I know I digress here but I fucking hate these people.
If you listen toour podcastat all, you know this is no secret.
And another one of these companies just popped up.
(I have a blog coming on this next week so I’ll move on).
There was probably a line of companies looking to splash their name on the night.
So for everybody who missed it on Patriots.com last night, you might catch it next Friday.
Let your parents know.
Because it’s worth the watch.
As Jerry eloquently wrote this morning, last night was magical.
But we got to talk to freaking everybody on the red carpet.
Patriot royalty from every era turned out.
The Patriots did an incredible job bringing them all together, and orchestrating such a great red carpet entrance.
Jerry even got this greeting from the man himself so that he can finally die a happy man.
The other networks that were there hated the fact we were.
Except for the king Steve Burton.
He was at the head of the line and everybody ran over to him to talk.
We got blown off extremely, extremely hard by Julian Edelman.
We got one of the only interviews Gronk and his girlfriend Camille gave.
Hank was cool because he’s a nice person.
The star power assembled was crazy.
It was an awesome experience, and we can’t thank the Patriots enough.
Especially Gabby and Alexandra, who couldn’t have been nicer and more hospitable.
- Christian Fauria might be a better-looking dude than Brady.
Call me gay all you want.
- Brady’s oldest son, the one Dave made famous, is a fucking giant.
No joke the kid might be taller than Tom.
Makes Barron Trump look like Mugsy Bogues.
Jay Z hasn’t performed live in forever.
Nevermind in front of a crowd full of white-quarterback worshipping New England Patriots fans.
- The heavens shined upon the event.
It couldn’t have been nicer weather outside.
The stadium was slam-packed like it was a playoff game.
He tore into Parcells and Pete Carroll and was fucking hilarious.
He also lit Andy Reid and the Chiefs up.
And he destroyed ARod.
I really hope CBS keeps his bits in for everybody to see.
- They played series of videos from Brady’s opponents throughout the night.
The loudest boo’s they crowd gave out were by far for Eli Manning, and Patrick Mahomes.
- Peyton Manning came out as the first surprise guest and freaking killed it.
He also told a really great story about the time Brady and him trained together in Tennessee in 2009.
Why did he go off the rails and start talking crazy after that Miami game in the presser?
- and the other, for Bill Belichick, who was a surprise guest.
Belichick was fucking amazing.
If you think otherwise you’re a dumb dumb.
If he says somebody should be in the HOF, they probably should.
Vince Wilfork has slimmed down and is in such good shape that even Jerry barely recognized him.
Matt Cassell was also really great.
Which everybody’s heard about by now.
If you haven’t for some reason.
Read about it here.
Extremely well spoken, full of emotion, and sharper than he’s appeared in years.
He delivered a remarkable tribute to Brady.
Kraft’s speech was so heartfelt, that it had Brady in tears several times.
- Speaking of Kraft, Matthew Slater introduced him and man oh man was he impressive.
Brady delivered on stage last night, like he did for 20 years here.
I seriously don’t know what can possibly rattle this guy.
You just have to be what most people arent: consistent, determined and willing to work for it.
Everybody at the NFL level can throw the ball.
It’s going to suck not getting to watch Brady throw the football every Sunday anymore.
This guy is going to be so damn good at broadcasting it’s not even funny.
It’s crazy how good we had it for 20 years.
For 20 freaking years!
Like Brady said to the crowd last night, a lot of people love the Patriots.
Even more people hated the Patriots.
But EVERYBODY respected the Patriots.
Think about that and think about how few of professionalanythingyou can say that about.
But he was also an exemplary person off the field.
An elite champion on the field whos even better off the field?
But it happened for us.
