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Jerry Jones (left) is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Robert Kraft (right) isn’t. (Photo by Maddie Malhotra/Getty Images)
At the age of 83, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft has six Super Bowls to his name and is waiting to hear his name called by the Pro Football Hall of Fame. It has not been a happy wait, according to a story from ESPN’s Don Van Natta Jr.
Over the course of the last decade or so, Kraft’s camp, led by Patriots PR head Stacey James, have been pushing to get Kraft enshrined in Canton, Ohio, with zero success. The 12-person subcommittee determining the final ballot hasn’t even forwarded his name once to the full 50 selectors.
The wait has reportedly left Kraft frustrated, so much so that he had some choice words about the enshrinement of Dallas Cowboys Jerry Jones:
Kraft saw the selection of (Jerry Jones) as an insult, a verdict that Jones is more responsible for the NFL’s astonishing success.
“He hasn’t been to the NFC title game in two decades and he gets in?” Kraft told a confidant. “How does that work?”
Kraft’s Hall of Fame candidacy has a number of things going for it.
There are, of course, his six Super Bowl rings, won over a two-decade reign as the NFL’s top team. Tom Brady and Bill Belichick understandably receive larger credit there, but it’s been an incredible run for a team that was close to moving before Kraft bought the team in 1994. Kraft has also long been one of the most influential owners in the NFL, helping negotiate the end of the 2011 lockout and chairing the owner media committee that recently negotiated $110 billion in television rights deals.
On the other hand, there are the scandals. Kraft’s time owning the team has seen the Spygate scandal, the Deflategate scandal and his own scandal involving a certain massage parlor in Florida. None have helped Kraft’s image, but it’s apparently Spygate that have left voters most bothered:
A small group of anti-Kraft voters told ESPN they have long harbored concerns that Kraft knew far…
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Author : Yahoo Sports
Publish date : 2024-09-11 22:05:34
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