Live from Southern California. This is the Jim Rome Show.

I'm going to start right here. I didn't think that I would start today with this but but if you did not get all the way to the end of that

massive Don Van Nata piece that was published on Espn.com yesterday I can't say that I blame you. It was pretty massive because

it was a ton of words to essentially spell out a very simple fact. One fact. Bob Kraft is but-heard. Bob Kraft and the people around Bob Kraft are all

bent. And what they're so bent and so but heard about is that Bobby Kay is not in the Pro Football

Hall of Fame not like my dude Demarkas Ware who I'll talk to you later on this

hour Bob Kraft is not in.

And you know what?

In defense of Bob Kraft, I mean,

why isn't he in?

Why is Bob Kraft not in the Hall of Fame?

I mean, Eddie DeBarlow is in, so why wouldn't Bob Kraft be in by

now? And at the rate he's going, Victor Chaim is going to get in before Kraft.

I mean, the dude does have six Lombardies.

He did transform the Patriots from a punchline and a punching bag

to a dynastic empire that dominated the sport for two

solid decades.

It's frankly hard to imagine what more Bob Graf could or should have done since he bought the Patriots exactly 30 years ago.

And he bought the Pats for 172 mil in 1994.

The team is now worth an estimated seven bill with a B plus and they've

sold out every single home game since he bought that team. 30 straight seasons of sellouts. Like it is a

crazy success story. It's one of the all-time American success stories and it's obviously a huge part of how the NFL has become as big as it is.

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