Yeah, I conceded he put that in, another example of what he did to ensure only he had a realistic chance at the time. It's possible another ownership would want to pay the league 20 million, if approved to move then also get into an unknown and expensive litigation with Kraft, but realistically Kraft had check and mate.
You know as much as we cringed at his groveling after a league assault that was not his fault [all he could have done to prevent it is sell the team, he had no power to control gooddell] His ownership should be judged in totality.
Was he a good owner? No. I would say he has been the best owner in the history of Boston sports and I'm pretty aware of all of them, unless my memory fails. I used to wave to that racist hero worshipper Tom Yawkey [who dressed like he took anything that fit out of the good will box] before games when I was a vendor at Fenway for 4 years, and he was probably number 2!
If I'm missing some great owners who spent a lot of time, money and risk to ensure they bought the team and also overcame obstacles to build a great stadium to watch it in, here's the place to make that argument.
Oh, also went to great lengths to get the right management team and let the "do their job."
