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Breer details what motivated Robert Kraft’s latest Hall of Fame snub originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
Robert Kraft is one of the most successful owners in NFL history. But he’s still waiting to be given the league’s highest honor.
The New England Patriots owner will not be included in the 2025 class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, ESPN’s Don Van Natta reported Friday. Kraft was among the semifinalists under consideration in the “contributor” category for the 2025 class, but according to Van Natta, the nine-member subcommittee instead chose Ralph Hay, one of the NFL’s initial co-founders who owned the Canton Bulldogs from 1918 to 1922.
Why does Kraft continue to get passed over for the Hall of Fame despite an impressive resume that includes overseeing one of the greatest dynasties in professional sports that brought six Super Bowl titles to New England from 2001 to 2018? Sports Illustrated’s Albert Breer joined Patriots Pregame Live on Sunday to offer more insight into the subcomittee’s thought process.
“I think there are a couple of things at work here,” Breer said, as seen in the video above. “Number one, the Spygate/Deflategate thing is part of it with the committee. There’s no question about that. They feel like if he is going to be celebrated for winning the Super Bowl championships, the six of them with Tom Brady and Bill Belichick, then he has to wear their warts too.”
That’s a somewhat reasonable gripe, as Kraft’s Patriots were involved in a pair of fairly significant scandals during their dynasty. But the rest of Breer’s reporting should make the Krafts’ blood boil.
“I think the other factor is what we’ve all been talking about, which was the endless campaigning to get him in (to the Hall of Fame),” Breer said. “Now, my understanding is that Kraft’s camp has dialed that back the last couple of years. And I think now based on the age of some of the guys in that committee, some of those guys are out of the business of football at this point — they’re…
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Author : NBC Sports Boston
Publish date : 2024-11-24 18:52:00
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