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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.No but you can replace Kraft with any other reasonable owner like Paul Allen (rip), Ford, Wilf, Biscotti, Khan or the Rooneys and you would have ZERO dip in how the team has been doing. Which again makes him just one of the other owners and not someone great.
And despite all this criticism nobody in this thread has brought up any good points since Gilette was opened why he is anything better than a custodian or any random reasonable person with money.
Hey @luuked. Please tell me more about this Khan fella!!!!!
"......."The decision puts a stop to the blatant overreach by the Jaguars and emphasizes the voluntary nature of almost all football activities during the off-season. It should be noted that Jaguars players continue to be at odds with Jaguars management over their rights under the CBA for more than players on other clubs," the union said.
"In the last two years, more than 25% of the grievances filed by players in the entire league have been filed against the Jaguars. You as players may want to consider this when you have a chance to select your next club."
Oh Lordy!!!!!!!
Hey @luuked. Please tell me more about this Khan fella!!!!!
"......."The decision puts a stop to the blatant overreach by the Jaguars and emphasizes the voluntary nature of almost all football activities during the off-season. It should be noted that Jaguars players continue to be at odds with Jaguars management over their rights under the CBA for more than players on other clubs," the union said.
"In the last two years, more than 25% of the grievances filed by players in the entire league have been filed against the Jaguars. You as players may want to consider this when you have a chance to select your next club."
Oh Lordy!!!!!!!
I sat in them. He lucked into BB. BB and TB are responcible for NEs success, not the spineless, duplicitous, hypocrite owner.
And Kraft embarrassed himself last year in Florida.
At least their **** didn't have a net negative on the football ops like him surrendering draft picks all over the place with his inability to standup for his organization.
But hey he paid for two airplanes. That's something. Maybe if he is still alive in 10 years he gets a rocketship.
Hey @luuked. Please tell me more about this Khan fella!!!!!
Robert Kraft saved the New England Patriots with a gutsy $175 million investment and it has paid off big timeIn 1994, Robert Kraft owned Foxboro Stadium, then the home of the New England Patriots, and rejected a $75 million offer to buy out the lease.
If he had sold, it would have allowed the team to move to St. Louis. Instead, Kraft paid a then-NFL record $175 million to buy the team and keep it in the Boston area.
It was a gutsy move for a team playing nearly a decade's worth of bad football in an outdated stadium, dishing out the equivalent of about $300 million in today's dollars. Now the Patriots are said to be worth $3.8 billion, with a B, according to Forbes.com's latest valuations.
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Exactly. I hardly worship the guy. He's down the list in terms of success here.I have no love lost for Bob Kraft, but if you hate him that much, why not go root for a team that has a "better" or "more reasonable" owner? I can tell you none of them have put out the caliber of team that Bob Kraft has for the last 20 years, and I, like a lot of other old timers on here remember the good ole days of the Sullivans and Victor Kiam. In this case the "devil" we know is way better than the devil we don't, or the ones we used to know. Trust me.
I have no love lost for Bob Kraft, but if you hate him that much, why not go root for a team that has a "better" or "more reasonable" owner? I can tell you none of them have put out the caliber of team that Bob Kraft has for the last 20 years, and I, like a lot of other old timers on here remember the good ole days of the Sullivans and Victor Kiam. In this case the "devil" we know is way better than the devil we don't, or the ones we used to know. Trust me.
TB 51% BB 49%I sat in them. He lucked into BB. BB and TB are responcible for NEs success, not the spineless, duplicitous, hypocrite owner.
I have no love lost for Bob Kraft, but if you hate him that much, why not go root for a team that has a "better" or "more reasonable" owner? I can tell you none of them have put out the caliber of team that Bob Kraft has for the last 20 years, and I, like a lot of other old timers on here remember the good ole days of the Sullivans and Victor Kiam. In this case the "devil" we know is way better than the devil we don't, or the ones we used to know. Trust me.
The only thing Kraft could have differently in Deflategate was rattling the sabres more before conceding he was not legally allowed to take legal action and not making that pathetic statement about the “other 31”. But even doing those is just optics. There is nothing substantive he could have done.
"In August 2013, Wilf, along with his brother, Mark Wilf, and cousin, were found liable by a New Jersey court for breaking civil state racketeering laws and keeping separate accounting books to fleece former business partners of shared revenue".
Another piece
The Broken Moral Compass of Vikings Owners Mark and Zygi Wilf
That is not quite correct. Kraft's hands were tied when it came to threats like suing the league where the partnership agreements essentially meant a guaranteed loss, but he had a nuclear option and he sat on it. That option was not to sue the league, but to go to court to challenge the constitutionality of the SBA (otherwise none at the league's anti trust exemption). Every time it has come under genuine serious threat the NFL has caved hard and fast.