Former New England Patriots star Tom Brady attended a statue ceremony at Gillette Stadium and couldn't resist the chance to take another shot at one of his former NFL rivals.

Buccacio is the artist who designed the about-to-be-unveiled statue of the Patriots legend. He wanted to see Brady react when he saw himself in bronze. “I’ve spent enough time looking at it. I wanted to see what he was going to think,” said Buccacio, whom the Patriots selected over several other interested sculptors to create the project.

At some point, the New England Patriots will need to untether themselves from the past and move on from the Bill Belichick-Tom Brady years. But even so, those years were so good that occasional steps back in time remain dewy and sweet.