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Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s Final Quest

ESPN Daily

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Patriots owner Robert Kraft has a resume anyone in the sports world would envy. Six world championships, an $11 billion empire, and an era of team success that will go down in NFL history. But there’s one thing that has eluded him – entry into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.  While he’s contributed more to the NFL than most, he has no bust in Canton, but that is not for lack of trying. Today, Don Van Natta Jr., breaks down the exhaustive, and to date failed campaign to get Kraft his gold jacket. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Don Van Nada, some people don't realize that we are friends and we have run into each other a couple times over the last couple years and there's two I want to highlight in specific.

0:09.0

Because the US Open is happening, you did a very thoughtful television story about

0:14.4

Serena Williams and you invited me up to New York and we sat and talked about

0:17.6

Serena but the most important time was when I was at NABJ in Miami looking to get out of a party

0:23.8

and I got an invite from DVM to come out

0:28.0

and eat a piece of fish on the docks

0:31.0

with your friends.

0:32.3

Please tell the folks about that debt. We had a great time at

0:36.1

the Coconut Grove Sailing Club. I'm a member there even though I don't sail, but the

0:41.6

fish is always fresh, the beer is always cold, we had a really, really good time,

0:45.6

one of the best views of Miami, and we have to do it again soon, Clinton.

0:49.1

It was a fantastic evening, people kept texting me, where are where are you I was like I'm with

0:53.4

devian eating fish looking at his Jordans leave me alone that said if I were to

1:00.2

elect you for any particular Hall of Fame. It might be the older white guy

1:04.2

sneaker Hall of Fame, but which one would you choose Don if you could elect

1:08.3

yourself to a Hall of Fame? Well I'd lean pretty hard toward Cooperstown in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1:15.0

I had a great morning, just the two of us.

1:20.0

Rob Manfred, the Commissioner of Baseball, and I had the place to ourselves prowling around for a piece I did on him a couple years ago.

1:26.0

But, you know, the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio is a pretty special place too.

1:32.0

On the hall's top floor there is this cavernous circular room,

1:36.7

whisper quiet. You're surrounded by the bronze bus of nearly 400 NFL legends.

1:43.1

That's a pretty special place too.

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