John Hannah reveals SnowPlow really interfered rather than helped!

NormZauchin · Jul 11, 2014

Jackson 2 said:
Yeah, I love Bob Kraft and think he's the best owner in sports. But, he played Hartford and Connecticut like a bull fiddle and I don't believe he ever intended to go there. It might be the only thing that Dan "the Douche" Shaughnessy ever got right. I, also, know CT people who dropped their Patriots allegiance after that episode. My advice: get over it, although easy for me to say.

One can't be much of a fan if your team says that it is going to move 100 miles closer to you, then changes its mind and stays where it is, thereby saving you, the taxpayer, hundreds of millions of dollars. I grew up in Western Mass., about 40 miles north of Hartford, and that area always split its support between New York and Boston teams.

SB39 · Jul 12, 2014

patfanken said:
There was no way that a state legislature would have passed that kind of one sided bill. It would have cost the state over a half a BILLION dollars and not cost Kraft a dime. No way the people of CT would have put up with that.

Well, they did pass it. It was a 100% done deal. They just unwisely left Bob Kraft a teensy-weensy escape clause.

AzorianPats · Jul 12, 2014

BSR said:
If you read the article posted, the Megaplex proposal was the first proposal. The second proposal was one where MA would pay for the infrastructure and Kraft would pay for the stadium was then also shut down because Kraft didn't grease the right greedy palms. Instead we got a 100% tax payer funded courthouse on prime waterfront property and they all cheered. Corrupt politics at its finest.

20 years later and that broken down underdeveloped area is finally just starting to be built up. One can only imagine how much more accelerated that development would have been if that stadium had been built there in the first place.

And with the talk of Boston in line for hosting the 2024 Olympics, the talk is again coming up of building a 80,000 seat stadium in South Boston's waterfront , that could be reduced to 40,000 after the Olympics.

Sooner or later, there's going to be a stadium their. Whether its the Olympics, Revolution, or even a Red Sox (Fenway can't last forever) its going to happen. Its just unfortunate nothing was resolved 20 years ago. A Pats stadium there would have been wonderful.

AzorianPats · Jul 12, 2014

Deus Irae said:
I love Hannah, but the video clearly shows that his memory is a bit off.

John Hannah: great player, horrible human being.

I want to say 10 years ago, the guy became the football coach for the Somerville High football team. Took over a team that was not elite, but a pretty good football program. Led them in his first and only season to a winless record, then bolted. Was more known for having roid rage like accidents to his players during practice/games, and knocking out some guy in Highland ave all for getting honked at on a red light.

Like I said great player, but the guy is a mess.

BSR · Jul 12, 2014

Jackson 2 said:
With all due respect, and I mean that, you're wrong. There were no corrupt poltics in the Megaplex proposal which made it, in and of itself, an anomaly in Massachusetts politics. You know as well as I know that Bob Kraft would have greased the appropriate palms if that's what it would have taken. So stop pushing revisionist history on us because that's what you're doing here. Provide proof.

I didn't say the Megaplex idea was corrupt politics. It was an idea that barely got off the ground. What was corrupt was killing the other stadium deal to build a federal courthouse on the water. The proof is right there on the seaport.

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