Next Time Anyone Wants to Complain About Bob Kraft........

[Patriotic]

Anyone who was around during the days of the sons of Billy Sullivan or Victor "The Patriot Missile" Kiam uses only superlatives to describe Bob Kraft and his family.

 

[TheSolderKing]

Unlike "Balmy Foxboro" in December?

I don't get it. Exactly how much colder would it be in Boston than in Foxboro?

The wind could have easily been mitigated with a more vertical, bowl-enclosed stadium.

Nothing to do w/ the Cold dude. You claim that vertical,bowl enclosed stadium would have been a saver??? I don't know about that. The Gusts right near the Ocean would have been so much more powerful imo

 

[shmessy]

Nothing to do w/ the Cold dude. You claim that vertical,bowl enclosed stadium would have been a saver??? I don't know about that.

Candlestick Park is OK for football, not ok for baseball. Same thing for the old Municipal Stadium in Cleveland.

In the baseball world, you'd have a point. It's moot for football.

The location would more than offset the discomfort of a little extra breeze for the fans.

Kraft gave up a huge amount to remain in Foxboro - - he would have made a mint in South Boston (or Hartford). Instead he made lemonade out of the lemon of a location he was dealt in Foxboro. Even with all that, he is turning it into a mini-city (especially if he builds that biotech park across Route 1). He would have done much bigger things in Southie or Hartford.

 

[jmt57]

Over the years there have been plenty of misguided "Kraft is cheap" and "Pats are cheap" comments, typically during contract negotiations with a well known player or anytime a free agent leaves for another team. The vocal minority makes similar comments whenever some newspaper ranks teams by the average total cost of attending a game (ticket, parking, drink and food) or average ticket price. Certain local writers like Shaughnessy and Borges can't go all that long without writing a column with this angle.

The negativity was loudest after some Super Bowl favorites departed (McGinest, Vinatieri, Branch, Patten) and still occasionally returns (Wilfork contract negotiations, Brady 'disconnect' speculation, Mankins negotiations, Samuel signing with Philadelphia) but it is not as pronounced as it once was. As soon as some familiar name departs for another team it it will surely return, unfortunately.

 

[FredFromDartmouth]

Kraft did something that few other owners have done and that is learn from his mistake. His only mistake was meddling with personnel decisions and driving Parcells out of town and then meddling with the draft when Caroll was the coach. But unlike Synder JJ and Al Davis he understood he made a mistake and let the professionals make the personnel decisions.

He has created a model franchise. As someone who has gone to the old Shaeffer Stadium and Gillette there is a world of difference in not just the facilities but the attitude. The only grips I have with him is moving to artificial turf but it is a business and he wants to maximie the use of Gillette...but here again he learned by his mistake and replaced the green bowling alley that was Gillette after the switch to grass and went to a more forgiving surface

 

[PatsFanSince74]

Nice idea. But...

I really don't pay any attention to complaints about the Krafts.

If people don't realize how good we have it, then it's their problem, not mine, and there's nothing I can do to help them.

 

[Bella*chick]

Kraft did something that few other owners have done and that is learn from his mistake. His only mistake was meddling with personnel decisions and driving Parcells out of town and then meddling with the draft when Caroll was the coach. But unlike Synder JJ and Al Davis he understood he made a mistake and let the professionals make the personnel decisions.

I don't think he drove Parcells out of town. Parcells drove himself out of town as he has done with multiple franchises. Parcells didn't want Kraft involved at ALL and that's just ridiculous seeing as it's Kraft's team. I'm basing this off what I read in Holley's Patriot Reign.

 

[shmessy]

I don't think he drove Parcells out of town. Parcells drove himself out of town as he done with multiple franchises. Parcells didn't want Kraft involved at ALL and that's just ridiculous seeing as it's Kraft's team. I'm basing this off what I read in Holley's Patriot Reign.

I fully agree. Parcells was the Zsa Zsa Gabor of the NFL.

 

[Joker]

I fully agree. Parcells was the Zsa Zsa Gabor of the NFL.

I hate to ask...BUT...uh...who would the Eva Gabor be, then...????

 

[shmessy]

I hate to ask...BUT...uh...who would the Eva Gabor be, then...????

Parcells was Zsa Zsa because the first 3 years of the marriage was always intense and hot. Then there would be a race to the lawyers. Repeat the cycle 5-10 times.