Let's talk about my Patriots!
For years, we have witnessed many comments on this board concerning the New England Patriots and their "love" of Trump. Some go so far as to say us New Englanders should shun our own team due to the possible political opinions and actions of Bob Kraft, Bill Belichick and Tom "GOAT" Brady.
I disagree.
We already have several players state they will not visit the White House if invited. One, Duron Harmon, has even suggested he would like to do as the Warriors did and meet with Obama instead! To me, this suggests that the Pats are indeed a team I could support, since they have players of this great moral strength!
tldr: Not All Patriots!
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Good on the fans who support them.
But, even so, they did manage to give us one of the most boring SuperBowls on record, so there is that.... 
IIRC, he didn't go the last time the Pats won the Super Bowl either.
And then there's Gisele, his high-fashion model better half, who, I hear, hates Trump.
I understand she's the one who wears the pants in their marriage.
That's a bit too much to ask of any politician, isn't it? 
...I seem to recall a certain orange tinted Republican promising Mexico would pay for something.
(To that I say (to paraphrase "Jerry Maguire" , "Show Me The Pesos!!!"
...but I digress.
Well, that is the most polite way I've heard around here asking for proof, so I'll give you points for that.
You can look for the article in the March 3, 2000 edition of the New York Times about the $2.4 million the Krafts and the NFL sent to CT in order to avoid a full-on lawsuit, which anyone who has followed then-Attorney General and now-Senator Richard Blumenthal knows he would have most certainly pursued. (No, no links. There is one, but that would be too easy. Besides, I already gave you points
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As for the steam plant and coal tar BS, there were plenty of other locations, as Rentschler Field and Dunkin' Donuts Park have overwhelmingly proven since then. But crafty Kraft insisted on that one site? Why is that lone site the only place he would accept? Hmm? Maybe because that would guarantee him an "out clause" while he was still illegally negotiating with Massachusetts? Hmmm???
No, it was not business. It was a contract violation, and thus fraud with a government entity. 100% Nefarious.
Congrats on your championship, however which way they got it.
Not so much a penalty, but rather a reimbursement for the initial costs and studies and such. It also came from the League, not Kraft. As for the other bit, the initial agreement was for the steam plant land, not a less-desirable East Hartford location. If you'd like to read a pretty good recap of the events; Hartford’s White Whale: How the Patriots Almost Became Connecticut’s Team
Again, it's business. Kraft negotiated those escape clauses, and the governor signed off on them, for if the site wasn't gong to be ready by 2002. Sorry that your claim to fame remains a hockey team known as the Forever .500s, but them's the breaks.
By all means keep this up, though. I haven't been this amused with NYC's Bedroom since college, when I and a friend who was a Whalers fan used to wager a pint of Ben and Jerrys when the Bruins played the Whale.
Put on 5lb that year, but it was worth it. 
