Reiss's mention about the way Belichick wore the Kraft family initiative pin

[Steve102]

We have Neidermeyer on the Pats payroll as a the pin police?

 

[203Pat]

Rather petty, if you ask me. Bill is aware of what he is doing.

Yeah I don't want to say it is deliberate but it is a really odd spot to wear a pin. If it is deliberate then that is a real slap in the face to RKK and politics aside it is a pin bringing awareness to anti-semitism which technically could have nothing to do with Israel.

Where Bill normally wears pins:

Although I did find this. Hopefully it is just a weird thing Bill does on occasion and this is much to do about nothing.

 

[Sam Bam Cunningham]

That was so disrespectful of BB period.
Bad look and no excuse.

 

[VrabelJr]

BB has not, does not, and never will care about all the extra side crap of the NFL these days. This is a game he got into because he loves it when it was not popular at all. There’s tens of initiatives around the league for every concern you can dream of.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Still one of my favorite movies. Timeless.

 

[Stu Pidassle]

i think this is it

If he's wearing it in support of the K.I. cool...

If its a dig at Kraft for whatever reason, its a ****ty thing to do...

Until we know... eh

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It looks to me that BB put the pin on a spot that he could see over his moobs.

 

[Pape]

It looks to me that BB put the pin on a spot that he could see over his moobs.

I just spit my afternoon coffee out

 

[203Pat]

BB has not, does not, and never will care about all the extra side crap of the NFL these days. This is a game he got into because he loves it when it was not popular at all. There’s tens of initiatives around the league for every concern you can dream of.

Yeah standing against antisemitism is just "extra side crap".

 

[RobertWeathers]

With BBs 36 DD man boobs i'm surprised they didn't cover the pin.

 

[Rob0729]

Never knew about this but it is kinda disrespectful to wear a pin on the side of your stomach.

At the end of the day Bill and Bob were never close. It was always a business relationship and that’s been written about many times. Bill distanced himself from the other key figures in the organization; the Krafts and Brady. Last week I was listening to one of the reporters who years ago asked Brady that when it was all over and they were old if he would hang with Bill and reminisce. Brady laughed at it. There’s no personal relationship with Bill like there is with the Krafts. Kind of a shame.

I never thought that there was a relationship between the two men. Kraft is all about image/brand and wants the Pats not only to be America's team, but the world's team. Belichick just didn't give a crap and almost relished in being an a-hole and hated across the league. Kraft must have steamed every time a Belichick news conference got really contentious.

As for Belichick and Brady and other players, it has been reported that Belichick's relationship with players are one way when they are on the team and another when they leave. When they are on the Patriots, it is a cold relationship and they rarely see the human side of Bill. Afterwards, Belichick is a completely different person - personable and funny.

 

[Rob0729]

If Kraft purposely disrespected Kraft on something that is so important to him, then he only has himself to blame for his firing. I get that they didn't like the guy, but it is just shotty to disrespect someone's core beliefs like that.

 

[FCB02062]

so I guess Krafty isn't hiring any Palestinian coaches anytime soon, eh?

 

[Wax Frog]

I just spit my afternoon coffee out

Synchronicity? This very morning was the first time in my life that something funny made me spit out my coffee. Really!

 

[Hyped]

I think it is much ado about nothing by Reiss.

Maybe BB had a sore shoulder that day and didn't want to strain it by placing a pin high up on his shirt. Hard to read much into these things....

 

[Steve102]

I never thought that there was a relationship between the two men. Kraft is all about image/brand and wants the Pats not only to be America's team, but the world's team. Belichick just didn't give a crap and almost relished in being an a-hole and hated across the league. Kraft must have steamed every time a Belichick news conference got really contentious.

As for Belichick and Brady and other players, it has been reported that Belichick's relationship with players are one way when they are on the team and another when they leave. When they are on the Patriots, it is a cold relationship and they rarely see the human side of Bill. Afterwards, Belichick is a completely different person - personable and funny.

Kraft, being mad at Bill for being an a**hole at some presser, while the value of his franchise goes thru the roof thanks to Tom and Bill.

 

[zimmy]

It was discussed widely at the time. It's petty and disrespectful. I assume Reiss highlighted it as an example of what Kraft felt he had to put up with. I love Bill but even I can see he is a difficult man. The various bits I've seen of Bill and RKK in documentaries always make me cringe. He always seemed to treat him like a child and barely told him more than he would tell the media. He must have felt very comfortable in his job.

That said, we don't know if Kraft refused to support any of Belichick's charitable initiatives and there was something broader to it.

 

[Wax Frog]

I think it is much ado about nothing by Reiss.

Maybe BB had a sore shoulder that day and didn't want to strain it by placing a pin high up on his shirt. Hard to read much into these things....

Context is king. Without it, discussion is hot air.

 

[borg]

Petulant Bill......

 

[Ring 6]

Rather petty, if you ask me. Bill is aware of what he is doing.

What’s he doing?

 

[wheresmosi]

I also agree it was weird way to start out a story by Reiss and it was an unusual location for the pin and a cryptic response from BB when asked.

I wonder if BB was being a dink towards Bob re: Kraft not wearing the Serbian pin.

I think this raises a good point about the prudence of requiring any kind of statement on apparel. I know people who are pro Palestinian that might not be keen on wearing an antisemitism pin (and yes, I know one can be against antisemitism and pro Palestinian, but someone might suspect that an antisemitism pin suggests support for Israel's policies in current time), people who would not want to wear a cross or rainbow flag or BLM apparel (not because of racism but because of attitudes toward many profiting off of BLM), and so on. A person shouldn't b eput in a place where their motives for not participating in something can be held against them without being known, when the cause is not directly related to the job they are doing.