Patriots owner Robert Kraft opens up on Trump attending Super Bowl LIX, Tom Brady calling the game

New England Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft is astatine Super Bowl LIX successful New Orleans, and his aged person President Donald Trump volition beryllium there too. 

Kraft gave his thoughts connected Trump becoming the archetypal sitting president to attend the large crippled successful an interrogation with Fox News Digital. 

"It conscionable shows you that possibly the NFL and the Super Bowl are important if we got the president of the United States coming arsenic a guest," Kraft said. 

Kraft said helium donated to Trump successful the past during an interrogation connected "The Breakfast Club" successful October. The owner, who has an estimated $11.8 cardinal nett worth, said helium archetypal met Trump successful the 1990s.

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"Donald Trump became a societal person successful the aboriginal ‘90s, erstwhile I was going down to Florida. And past erstwhile my woman … died 13 years ago, helium was 1 of 4 oregon 5 radical who reached retired to maine and was really, truly nice," Kraft said.

"The lone donation I ever gave to him was helium called maine erstwhile helium got elected, and I made a beardown donation to his inauguration. I couldn’t judge it. It was similar having idiosyncratic who was a drunk fraternity member go president of the United States."

However, the proprietor said helium distanced himself from Trump aft the events of Jan. 6, 2021.

"I volition accidental this," Kraft said. "I was precise upset (with) what happened Jan. 6. And I haven’t talked to [Trump] since then."

The Patriots person gone to different lengths to region themselves arsenic a franchise from the erstwhile president arsenic well. 

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Former New England Patriots backmost Tom Brady speaks during a halftime ceremonial arsenic Patriots President Jonathan Kraft and Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft respond astatine Gillette Stadium Sept. 10, 2023, successful Foxborough, Mass.  (Adam Glanzman/Getty Images)

In May 2021, the squad and Kraft denied allegations helium and Trump attempted to wage a U.S. legislator wealth to driblet an probe into a cheating ungraded involving the team, according to a study by ESPN. 

The study alleged Trump met with Sen. Arlen Specter successful 2008 and offered him "money successful Palm Beach" if helium dropped his probe into the Spygate scandal, aft which the Patriots were disciplined by the NFL for filming a rival team’s coaching signals. 

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Trump had not started his governmental vocation astatine the clip and was good known arsenic the prima of "The Apprentice." ESPN says Trump was acting connected behalf of Kraft, a assertion those adjacent to the erstwhile president and the squad deny.

"Mr Kraft is not alert of immoderate engagement of Trump connected this topic, and helium did not person immoderate different engagement with Specter oregon his staff," a squad spokesperson told ESPN. 

A communal person of Trump and Kraft volition beryllium astatine the Super Bowl arsenic well, but for work-related reasons. 

Tom Brady volition beryllium broadcasting his archetypal Super Bowl arsenic the colour commentator for Fox's broadcast of the game, capping the erstwhile quarterback's archetypal play successful the booth. 

Former New England Patriots backmost Tom Brady, right, embraces Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft, center, arsenic Patriots President Jonathan Kraft, left, looks connected during halftime ceremonies to grant Brady astatine a crippled betwixt the Philadelphia Eagles and the Patriots Sept. 10, 2023, successful Foxborough, Mass.  (AP Photo/Mark Stockwell)

Kraft praised Brady's broadcasting skills successful an interrogation with Fox News Digital. 

"I deliberation the mode helium has presented the nuances of the game, things that fans would ne'er see, is genuinely peculiar and unique, and Fox was superb to pull him," Kraft said. 

Brady antecedently received praise for his broadcasting during a important infinitesimal of the Washington Commanders’ NFC divisional-round triumph implicit the Detroit Lions Jan. 18.

The Commanders were up 3 points with nether 14:30 to play. They decided to spell for it connected 4th and 2 from the Lions’ 5-yard line. A halt for the Lions and they would person gotten the shot backmost with ample clip to either necktie the crippled oregon instrumentality the lead.

Brady noticed thing incorrect astir the Lions’ defence arsenic the Commanders broke their huddle.

New England Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft earlier an AFC wild-card playoff crippled against the Buffalo Bills astatine Highmark Stadium.  (Rich Barnes/USA Today Sports)

"Need a timeout, 12 connected the field, timeout," Brady said. "Timeout! Timeout! Nope. Nope. Oh no! What are they doing?"

The Lions were penalized for having 12 men connected the field. The punishment gave the Commanders a caller acceptable of downs. Commanders moving backmost Brian Robinson Jr. recovered the extremity portion 2 plays aboriginal and enactment Washington up 38-28. The Commanders won the crippled 45-28.

Brady received praise connected societal media for pointing retired the Lions’ amerciable defense. 

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