Tom Brady’s Patriots Hall of Fame induction: Unlike anything fans have ever seen

When you need an entire three-hour production to cover your induction into the Patriots Hall of Fame, and it still doesn’t feel like enough, you know you’re among sports royalty.

That’s exactly what happened with Tom Brady when Robert Kraft decided to make the seven-time Super Bowl champion the first Patriots Hall of Famer to ever get his own ceremony inside of Gillette Stadium, earlier than the usual waiting period for inductees would even call for.

Add in the fact that Kraft scheduled it all for June 12, the sixth month of the year for the amount of Super Bowls Brady won with the Patriots, and the 12th day of the month to coincide with Brady’s iconic jersey number, and it led to pure magic in Foxborough.

The whole ceremony was truly something the sports world had ever seen before.

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This event had everything.

Mini panels of Brady’s former teammates talking about his competitiveness, work ethic, or time in the QB room like the Patriots were hosting a business conference about TB12.

Insightful appearances from the likes of Bill Belichick, Peyton Manning, and everyone in between talking about what life around greatness was really like.

Video packages with Brady’s family, Ray Lewis, Matt Damon, Chris Berman, and dozens of others who touched Brady’s life in some capacity.

Even a whole segment devoted to Bill Burr roasting celebrities Brady crossed paths with throughout his more than two-decade career in the NFL.

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When Jay-Z doing a live performance to introduce Brady to the crowd seems like an afterthought, you know it was a unique occasion.

Nothing seemed out of place, and like many said throughout the ceremony, Brady himself or those invited guests could’ve spent the entire night sharing stories and still ran out of time when trying to give an oral history of such an unbelievable run during Brady’s tenure in New England.

It was all done perfectly, capped off by the announcement that Brady’s no. 12 would be retired permanently by the Patriots, and the news that the all-time great would be honored with Gillette Stadium’s first-ever bronze statue.

It was a show befitting the greatest quarterback of all time, and served as a great preview for what’s bound to come when Brady enters the Pro Football Hall of Fame with a serious case as the greatest football player of all time.

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