David Andrews, the former Patriot Center, offers an emotional farewell on Monday for the sport and the team I love.
The Super Bowl champion twice wiped tears while he was talking at his retirement ceremony at Gillette, after describing him as a profession last week at the age of 32.
“I wrote this down, so I will try to overcome it,” Andrews began before they stopped gathering himself. “… when I learned that this day was coming, I was thinking about what I wanted to say. As you can see, there are a lot of feelings. Those that kept sticking to me were gratitude.”
A free, washing, unanimous agent outside Georgia, Andrews fell with Patriot in 2015 and spent all his ten seasons of his career in the US Football Association in New England, and won two championships during the 2016 and 2018 seasons while picking the ball to a quarter at the time, Tom Brady.
Andrews was appointed to the starting center of the patriots in his rising season, and he became a captain in the treasury room when he was elected, the team captain for eight seasons.
Andrews appeared in four games last season due to the injury.
He was released by the club in March, a “shocking” decision.
“I was shocked a little,” Andrews said on Quick Snap. “But … I was very blessed. I spent 10 years and never shot. I was living a dream for the tube, and I hope to make the decision myself.”
Although Andrews could have been working for another team after his release, he stated that he was never an option for him.
“I didn't want to do it for another organization,” Andrews told ESPN of Mike Reiss. “This was not what was going on in my mind to end my career. I wanted to end it here, and I did so.”
Andrews, who descended from Jones Kreik, began Georgia and started playing football at the age of 6, he started 121 games with Patriot.
During the Monday party, the owner of Patriot, Robert Kraft, spoke about Andrew's early influence as a team member.
Kraft said: “(Andrews) was just a young man with a big heart, an ethics of uncompromising work, and love for the game.” “From the first day, it was clear that David was different.”
The patriots began a new era under the leadership of the former back coach, who turned into his head, Mike Farble, who took over the position of a New England colleague, Jiroud May, after a catastrophic campaign 4-13 last season.
