Tippett

FOXBORO — Back when he was the most talented player on mostly struggling teams, playing in a — to put it mildly — bare-bones stadium, Andre Tippett would hear it from friends and foes alike.

“I had friends and people that I used to play against say, ‘Why are you here? Why don’t you do something to be disgruntled [about] and get kicked out of here?’ ” Tippett recalled with a chuckle yesterday. “I said, ‘That’s not the way I roll.’ That’s not how I was raised, from a family standpoint or a football standpoint.”

But on the weekend of Sept. 20, Tippett and the rest of the New England franchise will be able to show off the fruits of their perseverance, as the team opens the Hall at Patriot Place and holds the first Patriots Hall of Fame induction ceremony there.

The Hall has been a long-held idea of team owner Robert Kraft, and the finishing touches on his dream are being applied now, as the Sept. 18 ribbon-cutting ceremony, with presenting sponsor Raytheon, approaches.

The highlight of the weekend, however, will be the induction ceremony, in which all 12 current Patriots Hall of Famers will be reinducted in a one-time-only event. Then the 13th member, tight end Ben Coates, will be honored.

The 3 p.m. ceremony will be held outdoors (rain or shine), in the plaza just outside the Hall, with a stage set up abutting one portion of the building. Just as voting for the Hall has been opened to fans, so will the ceremony be opened to them: chairs will be set up for fans, but the team expects that the large staircases leading from the plaza to the shopping area and several nearby balconies will also be used; giant televisions will be set up to view the proceedings.

For Tippett, who was inducted into the Pats’ Hall in 1999 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame earlier this month, having the building means there’s a place former New England greats can come back to and be recognized.

“When the guys come here they’re going to really feel special,” he said. “As new guys get voted in, I’ll be able to shake their hand and tell them, ‘Welcome home.’ We want guys that are inducted into the Patriots Hall of Fame to feel, ‘I’m home now. This is where I played, I had a great career.’ And we’re going to pay homage to that.”

The Hall will open to the public on Monday, Sept. 22.

Another short week

Tomorrow’s game with the New York Giants is the third preseason game in 11 days for New England and marks the second straight week in which the team had just two days to fit in what’s normally three days of preparation.

Bill Belichick said everything still gets covered in that time, it might just be condensed.

“We still have to cover the same things; we have to cover first-down runs, play-actions, third down, red area, short yardage, two-minute, all the kicking game plays and so forth,” he said. But “what you normally have 45 minutes to do, now you have 30, so you spend a little bit less time on everything, but still try to get it all covered.”

If the team normally runs 20 red-zone plays, Belichick said, maybe only 12 get done in a short week; meetings are similar, going at a quicker pace than usual. The Pats don’t do much game planning for preseason contests, which in this case helps as well.

But the short weeks are likely good practice for Week 11, when the Pats host the Jets on Thursday Night Football after hosting Buffalo just four days earlier.

Extra points

Special-teams ace Larry Izzo was awarded the sixth annual Ron Burton Community Service Award at the Kickoff Gala last night. Izzo, an Army brat himself, focuses much of his charity work on military personnel and their families. … Yesterday was the last practice of the preseason for the current Patriots players and coaches. … Besides quarterback Tom Brady, the list of 14 players missing from yesterday’s practice included WR Wes Welker, TE Benjamin Watson and DB Brandon Meriweather.

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