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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.Your argument lost all credibility by trying to defend PSLs. Please try to find one person that would rather make that "investment" rather than holding on to the money or sticking it in a bank.denverpatsfan said:Let's get a few things straight here. I am appreciative of what Kraft has done with the Pats. Keeping the team in Foxboro while using Hartford was one of the toughest business power plays this area has seen. I also have been to many stadiums in the league so I can compare better than most people on this board.
Gillette is not even close to the best in the league IMO. If you have the money or your company has the money it may be the best experience in the NFL. But for the average season ticket holders, not much has changed from old Foxboro stadium. I still have to wait to use the restroom. Totally ridiculous. Maybe I should bash ROK Architects instead of Kraft but he had final review I'm sure. The fact that they converted women's rooms to mens rooms indicates to me that somone screwed up bad. Also the time it takes to get into the stadium is deplorable. Nowhere else is that as much of a problem than at Gilette. That being said, I will applaud them for adding more gates this year, but the stadium has been open for 4-years.
Next item: Transforming the area around the stadium to Mall Central. Kraft owns the land he can do what he wants to it, but I wish he had more vision than to simply build some homoginized mega-mall that can be found anywhere else in the country. Not original. Has this construction affected parking for the average fan? According to this board it has. I can't express how much this project disgusts me. Then again most commercial/residential projects now are plain crap. That's my opinion. You may like all the stores once they are in, but it's not for me.
What else? Hassling ticket holders about selling their tickets on Ebay. That drives me nuts. I don't know for a fact but suspect that the Patriots take a large chunk of their SB ticket share and sell them to travel agencies too. This has been discussed here on this board. They profit while the average ticket holder gets less of a chance to get SB tickets. Ridiculous. That being said we use all of our tickets. The waiting list access to "extra" tickets is a great thing. So I give credit where it is due.
About the field. Maybe less concerts would be a good idea?? Does he really need that money?? Do the soccer players have that much impact? I don't know. The field issue has helped us in the past and I believe that BB wants it that way or it would be corrected.
PSL's aren't necessarily a bad thing. The ticket holder can resell them at some point and make some money. The Patriots don't want you to. If they had went that route I still think they would have sold out the stadium.
I do also applaud him for not playing ball with the scumbag politicians and union bosses in Boston. That's why the stadium was built in Foxboro not Boston and not with public money. He wouldn't pay the "bribes" required to do business in this part of the country. Strictly my opinion here.
All big corporations donate to charity. It's a great thing. I applaud him for that work.
Obviously I enjoy the Pats enough to still attend game, suppport the team etc. Nobody is beyond criticism. There are quite a few things that bother me about Kraft and the Pats management and have expressed them here. Disagree if you want, but don't put the Pats ownership on a pedestal
denverpatsfan said:So that's it. Bob Kraft does work for your charity so he is beyond all crtique.
Hope you got that I was being sarcastic here.denverpatsfan said:If you want to "win" the "argument" then fine you "win"
You too, bro.denverpatsfan said:Have a great day
Next item: Transforming the area around the stadium to Mall Central. Kraft owns the land he can do what he wants to it, but I wish he had more vision than to simply build some homoginized mega-mall that can be found anywhere else in the country. Not original. Has this construction affected parking for the average fan? According to this board it has. I can't express how much this project disgusts me. Then again most commercial/residential projects now are plain crap. That's my opinion. You may like all the stores once they are in, but it's not for me.