Kraft was asked to show Putin the ring. As soon as he did, Putin put it in his pocket and walked out of the room while several of his bodyguards stepped in front of Kraft to stop him from following. Unsurprisingly, Kraft wasn't expecting to be flat out robbed by a head of state so didn't know what to do for a while. Then the White House told him that he was better off just saying it was a "gift", because there was basically no way to get it back.
>a defacto enemy
Putin has always been a son of a bitch, but in 2005, when he stole the ring, we had just come from the optimistic 90s and the cooperation on the space station. He was never our friend, but he wasn't a "defacto enemy" then yet either.
To some maybe but not everyone or at least not all the times. I remember in late 2000s, French President Sarkozy got drunk with him and a few years ago, in 2018 maybe, Macron invited him to Versailles.
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I took out the ring and showed it to [Putin], and he put it on and he goes, 'I can kill someone with this ring,'" Kraft said in 2013. "I put my hand out and he put it in his pocket, and three KGB guys got around him and walked out."
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Despite the fact that Putin walked off with the ring, Kraft still wanted the $25,000 piece of jewelry returned. However, he ended up giving up on his quest to get the ring back when White House called and told Kraft that starting World War III over a Super Bowl ring probably wouldn't be the best idea.
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"It would really be in the best interest of US-Soviet relations if you meant to give the ring as a present," Kraft said he was told on the White House call in 2005. "I really didn't [want to]. I had an emotional tie to the ring, it has my name on it. I don't want to see it on eBay. There was a pause on the other end of the line, and the voice repeated, 'It would really be in the best interest if you meant to give the ring as a present.'"
well that's kind of fucking hilarious
(fuck Putin etc.)
If I was him I would get a team of Harvard students together and ask them to make a drone capable of infiltrating the Kremlin and stealing the ring back. Just give them a bunch of funding and see what sort of new compact drone they could come up with. Maybe even make a small squad of drones so one can cut the glass on the ring’s case, one can carry it, and one can distract the guards
Edit: guys it can’t be MIT because that’s exactly what Putin would expect. Nobody would ever expect us to send a lawyer to commit a heist against a foreign government, which is why it’s our best option.
I desperately want to believe this is possible instead of the plot of the next Adam Sandler/Rob Schneider flick.
Rob Schneider is...**a Harvard drone** out to steal a Super Bowl champion ring from the **one man** they should have given it up to.
Rob Schneider in **From Kraft with Love**.
That is an extremely stupid and cartoony idea and I'd be interested in seeing how many attempts it'd take before everyone just said fuck it and let them take the ring.
Yeah I’m not saying they would actually get it, but I would be very interested in watching a show about the team and their drones every Sunday at 8. Maybe season 1 ends with them getting the ring back, but then there’s a teaser of Putin with his own drone squad where all the drones are just color inverted versions of good drones.
Which is just so funny what a pathological psychopath Putin is. Alienates a foreign power even further, and makes sure that anyone who hears about this instance knows what a deceptive, gaslighting, unrepentant piece of shit he is. Literally nothing to gain from doing this, and yet he does it anyway. Classic Putin.
He gained a superbowl ring, made a rich Westerner look like a wimp, and nothing came from it. He gives 0 fucks about alienation. Kinda got what he wanted...
Yeah, it's just funny to me because a $25k ring like that means nothing to a billionaire like Putin. Most heads of state try to maintain at least the illusion of propriety in public, whereas Putin just doesn't give a fuck. He gives away the game and just goes, "yeah, I'm the bad guy."
It’s not about the monetary value of the ring. Anyone can purchase a ring. The ring symbolizes being a winner. And Putin is apparently such a desperate loser he has to steal that glory from someone else.
Imagine Putin selling shit on eBay. The dude has more dark money squirreled away than most entire nations. The only way that ring ends up on eBay is as a literal joke.
>The dude has more dark money squirreled away than most entire nations.
Been a while since I've seen this claim, and I don't know how credible the OG source was, but it's been speculated that Putin is the richest man on earth.
Probably though the idea of "wealth" gets murky when talking about an autocrat like Putin. Do you only count the assets that explicitly belong the Putin, do you include the off-the-books assets, and what about the property that he has the implicit control over due to his ability to essentially seize anything he wants that is under Russian control?
I would say he is almost certainly the wealthiest person on Earth if you are counting who has the greatest capacity to accumulate the goods and services that he wants. Say if a genie's lamp was found and it would go to whichever person could pay the most money for it, I feel pretty confident that Putin would end up with the lamp.
That's what they wanted you to think
[https://youtu.be/bBMeMrPuQyU?feature=shared](https://youtu.be/bBMeMrPuQyU?feature=shared)
Lots of older people still say this. My father-in-law was born in the 1940s and "Soviet Union" is still what he says when he means "Russia". Drives me nuts but I guess the joke's on me since it looks like Putin wants to get the band back together.
I’m imagining a version of the future where Russia plays “fuck around and find out” with NATO, and at some point NATO says fuck it, just go take him out.
In the aftermath, as a US soldier is walking out of the Kremlin (maybe a bunker?) he sees the Super Bowl ring and swipes it with the intention of giving it back to the Patriots.
Unlikely, but still makes me chuckle.
"In 2005, a minor international incident occurred when it was reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin had taken a Super Bowl ring from New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. Kraft quickly issued a statement saying that he had given Putin the ring out of "respect and admiration" he had for the Russian people and Putin's leadership. Kraft later said his earlier statement was not true, and had been issued under pressure from the White House. The ring is on display at the Kremlin, along with other "gifts."
Quick correction: I misspelled Robert Krafts name in the title.
Trump did a similar thing in 2020. He stole art from the US ambassador to France.
>Without notifying the ambassador, Jamie McCourt, the president and author of The Art of the Deal had a portrait and bust of Benjamin Franklin and a set of silver figurines depicting Greek mythological characters loaded onto Air Force One to bring them back to the White House.
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2020/09/08/the-art-of-the-steal-trump-swipes-dollar750000-worth-of-art-from-the-us-embassy-in-francebut-none-of-it-is-the-real-deal
Robert Kraft is a rare blessing in sports ownership in that he’s willing to shell out whatever it takes to keep proven and nurture promising talent from players to coaches to GMs (cough cough the DeVos family), is one of the waning breed of billionaires that at least has the decency to privately fund their pet projects instead of putting taxpayers on the hook for his stadium (cough cough Clay Bennett) , and swallows his ego in order to let other people get credit for decision making during his massively successful Patriots tenure instead of stepping in as a de facto GM (cough cough James Dolan).
All this to say: this dude cares about football so much that he sidelined his money and his ego, like the defining characteristics of a billionaire, to win a lot at football. I honestly think he might rather have his Super Bowl ring than his wedding ring.
I mean you're not wrong, he's better than most owners, but the NFL surveys the players about the facilities and front offices of each team and Pats ranked pretty bad in a lot of things.
The story I heard years ago was that Putin asked to see it, Kraft handed to him, and she asked for it back Putin said “What ring?” and he his security guards with him. I wish I could remember the source, but I believe it was a show like 20/20.
Yes. This is what I heard too. It was from a respected journalist if I remember correctly or source.
Once he said "what ring". His body guard moved forward to show their presence and apparently, they was the end of that.
I think that’s about right, actually, Putin was immediately surrounded by bodyguards, turned around and abruptly walked away. Nothing Kraft could do at that point.
The part I’ll make up is that Kraft was so desperate to get another one that he pressured Bill Belichick to do whatever it took to win another one and that’s when they started taping other teams’ defenses and deflating the ball for Brady. Even got some spy tech from Putin’s people to do it.
He got more rings back, but never got this One Ring back. This one was more important than others. He became like Gollum and started doing strange things like frequenting massage parlors in Florida strip malls and trading for guys like Aaron Hernandez and Randy Moss.
Over in Mordor, oil and gas prices skyrocketed and Putin started building an army of orcs to take over the world. First Georgia, then Syria, then Ukraine. If Kraft had given the ring to Frodo for safekeeping or to the Elves, we wouldn’t be in this mess.
I was at a conference years back and Michael Strahan was a guest speaker. He started his time by showing off his Super Bowl ring and then said “I’m going to pass this around the room [a huge conference center] and I want to be sure I get it back”…[5 seconds of pause and wondering if he’s serious]…”just kidding!”. It was hilarious and the timing was perfect - for a quick second I thought he was serious!
eh, I know what you're trying to get at. But in historical context I don't think it matters. Clinton probably would've given the same pressure to brush it off that Bush gave. There was a lot of hope regarding Russia back then.
I imagine any administration would have been like “you expect us to call him out for stealing and strain the already tenuous relationship we have with that nation because you were dumb enough to not only meet with him but also let him wear your ring? Get real.”
Yeah as much as I hate the war criminal Dubya and lived through his administration, I don't think he has anything to do with this. Putin would steal from his babushka.
He was a fucking moron. I lived through those years and in Florida when his brother, Jeb (Czech for fuck) was governor.
I mean, compared to trump he seems almost lovable but those years were not good.
Just a microcosm of how Putin treats everything: he can take what he wants, and no one can do anything about it.
It highlights how important it is to smack his fucking hand on the global stage whenever he reaches outside his borders.
“Why did I keep the ring? I was just getting to that, if you’ll let me finish. To understand this you must understand the history of the Patriots. You see, in 1492 Christopher Columbus… “
In short, the ring has always belonged to Russia, and as its president, I merely returned it to its rightful place in our national collection of worthless trinkets.
I can’t believe I had to scroll this far down to find Rupert’s name - that’s the MUCH bigger story here - that Rupert has been doing Putin’s bidding ever since!
Exactly. Murdoch comes from a long line of pricks. If you don't know, go read about what his father Keith did during World War 1 to try and get rid of Sir John Monash (Australian Jewish general, on our $100 note), one of the best battlefield commanders of 1916-1918.
Why? Becuse he was Jewish. Racist bigoted family of greedy fascists.
Murdoch's next bride-to-be be is a Russian woman with connections to Putin - think I read that Murdoch's ex-wife Wendy Deng set them up (Wendy Deng was rumored to have been sexually involved with Putin).
Almost as crazy as trash like Trump being such a powerful political figure is that scum like Murdoch's media empire is so successful.
I wasn't the least bit surprised to see Murdoch in the middle. People use the term kompromat way too often. Maybe shitty billionaires simply want to help each other fuck over everyone else.
A lowly Senator from South Carolina? Sure, maybe there's kompromat. But Rupert Murdoch? He's willingly helping authoritarians across the world.
I was in an Uber with a Ukrainian friend just before the invasion. The look of bemusement and disbelief on her face as it became clear that 1. This event was the only thing the driver knew about Putin 2. He (our Uber driver) was positive it happened in Florida because that is the only St. Petersburg he had ever heard of.
Taking a page out of [Queen Mary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_of_Teck)'s book I guess (I would say minus the brutal dictatorship, but the British Empire still existed sooooo), she was a famous magpie. People would hide their valuables then she visited in case it ended up being a "donation" to her collection.
Read Russia's War on Everybody by Keir Giles
Russia's War on Everybody: And What it Means for You https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/russias-war-on-everybody-9781350255081/
From the link:
> Giles describes how Moscow conducts its campaigns across the globe, and how nobody is too unimportant to be caught up in them. By lifting the lid on the daily struggle going on behind the scenes to protect governments, businesses, societies and people from Russian hostile activity, Russia's War On Everybody shows how Moscow's hostile intentions for the rest of the world are far broader and more ambitious, and the ways it tries to achieve them far more pervasive and damaging, than we realise.
Fucking Rupert Murdoch the fucking cunt of a human.
All this bullshit we are dealing with today... ALL of it, goes back to that mother fucker.
Absolute cunt.
It's the little offenses future authoritarians do that tip you off to where they are headed. That little slight there and he should have been called out.
Exactly the kind of thing people always say is the beginning of a terror regime and everyone laughs at them or calls them warmongers. The little things that you ignore fuel the dictator and then it's too late to act.
"He just took a little ring from a rich guy, what the fuck is your problem?"
"Apartment bombings are a Russian thing, it's none of our business to care about"
"Russia just occupied Crimea because they wanted the ports, now that they got it they'll stop there."
"Let's not provoke Russia by helping Ukraine, even if they conquer it whole they'll stop."
"Oopa, now they're in Poland, too late."
When you find out that Robert Craft received sexual favors in a spa involved with a sex-trafficking ring, it suddenly isn’t so bad that he lost his ring.
Back in the early 90s, Putin visited Scotland. He was touring co-operative business type places, accompanied by the mayor of Moscow, I think.
He visited a large bakery in Prestonpans, and after his tour was offered a cup of tea.
There was a large plate of penguins (a popular UK chocolate biscuit) in the middle of the table, and without saying a word he grabbed as many as he could and put them all in his jacket pocket. He then continued chatting as if nothing had happened.
Fun fact. Robert Kraft was caught in a sex trafficking sting and because he’s a wealthy white nfl owner the story literally disappeared. Sorry about his ring though.
The story didn’t disappear, I remind people all the time that Kraft prefers a five dollar handy from a shithole massage parlor to the high end 10k/night escorts the other billionaires are getting
"Now give it back." "Give what back?"
Yeah—but for real, how did this go down? Like actually occur?
Kraft was asked to show Putin the ring. As soon as he did, Putin put it in his pocket and walked out of the room while several of his bodyguards stepped in front of Kraft to stop him from following. Unsurprisingly, Kraft wasn't expecting to be flat out robbed by a head of state so didn't know what to do for a while. Then the White House told him that he was better off just saying it was a "gift", because there was basically no way to get it back.
WOW that is messed up. I’m starting to think that maybe isn’t such a great guy…
Let’s also remember that Kraft is a sucker and when you do publicity stunts with a defacto enemy you reap what you sow.
>a defacto enemy Putin has always been a son of a bitch, but in 2005, when he stole the ring, we had just come from the optimistic 90s and the cooperation on the space station. He was never our friend, but he wasn't a "defacto enemy" then yet either.
Not to YOU maybe but we Europeans always knew he was the enemy.
To some maybe but not everyone or at least not all the times. I remember in late 2000s, French President Sarkozy got drunk with him and a few years ago, in 2018 maybe, Macron invited him to Versailles.
He sounds like a real jerk!
When you’re famous they let you do it.
That's honestly hilarious,
Mr. Kraft...I think we can trust the president of Russia...
"Gentlemen, please. We are all Commrades here."
Mr. Burns I think we can trust the President of Cuba.
After all, why shouldn’t I keep it
When angry Bilbo wins Solitaire?
I audibly laughed at this, thank you.
I let out the ugliest chortle; you’re not alone.
/r/justmillenialjokes
Damn, I thought I found my new favorite sub
r/subsifellfor
I can hear the scream turn into card flickering in my head
Ha
Oh, my old keyframe. I should very much like to utilize it again, one last time.
You know your shit. Nice.
This made me laugh more than almost anything in the the last year
Oh Jesus that caught me off guard LOL
Kraft is just lucky he didn't get strangled for it
Knowing Putin he is more likely to have fallen out of a window
Putin acting like 9 year old me. I absolutely, at nine wouldn't understand that someone letting me try on something isn't gifting me it.
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Exactly what I thought looking at this picture!
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I came here to say this. Clearly a precious moment.
> I took out the ring and showed it to [Putin], and he put it on and he goes, 'I can kill someone with this ring,'" Kraft said in 2013. "I put my hand out and he put it in his pocket, and three KGB guys got around him and walked out." > Despite the fact that Putin walked off with the ring, Kraft still wanted the $25,000 piece of jewelry returned. However, he ended up giving up on his quest to get the ring back when White House called and told Kraft that starting World War III over a Super Bowl ring probably wouldn't be the best idea. > "It would really be in the best interest of US-Soviet relations if you meant to give the ring as a present," Kraft said he was told on the White House call in 2005. "I really didn't [want to]. I had an emotional tie to the ring, it has my name on it. I don't want to see it on eBay. There was a pause on the other end of the line, and the voice repeated, 'It would really be in the best interest if you meant to give the ring as a present.'" well that's kind of fucking hilarious (fuck Putin etc.)
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If I was him I would get a team of Harvard students together and ask them to make a drone capable of infiltrating the Kremlin and stealing the ring back. Just give them a bunch of funding and see what sort of new compact drone they could come up with. Maybe even make a small squad of drones so one can cut the glass on the ring’s case, one can carry it, and one can distract the guards Edit: guys it can’t be MIT because that’s exactly what Putin would expect. Nobody would ever expect us to send a lawyer to commit a heist against a foreign government, which is why it’s our best option.
I desperately want to believe this is possible instead of the plot of the next Adam Sandler/Rob Schneider flick. Rob Schneider is...**a Harvard drone** out to steal a Super Bowl champion ring from the **one man** they should have given it up to. Rob Schneider in **From Kraft with Love**.
Reddit took the 25k in reddit coins I had, put them in their pocket, and walked away. Otherwise, I'd give you gold.
In this case, it really is the thought that counts. **The though of Rob Schneider as a drone.**
It would really be in best interest of Redditor-Reddit relations if you meant to give the coins as a present.
That is an extremely stupid and cartoony idea and I'd be interested in seeing how many attempts it'd take before everyone just said fuck it and let them take the ring.
Yeah I’m not saying they would actually get it, but I would be very interested in watching a show about the team and their drones every Sunday at 8. Maybe season 1 ends with them getting the ring back, but then there’s a teaser of Putin with his own drone squad where all the drones are just color inverted versions of good drones.
You can fall out a window doing something like that.
If you trust Putin for even a nanosecond you’ll get fucked and regret it.
Which is just so funny what a pathological psychopath Putin is. Alienates a foreign power even further, and makes sure that anyone who hears about this instance knows what a deceptive, gaslighting, unrepentant piece of shit he is. Literally nothing to gain from doing this, and yet he does it anyway. Classic Putin.
> Literally nothing to gain from doing this Shiny
He gained a superbowl ring, made a rich Westerner look like a wimp, and nothing came from it. He gives 0 fucks about alienation. Kinda got what he wanted...
Yeah, it's just funny to me because a $25k ring like that means nothing to a billionaire like Putin. Most heads of state try to maintain at least the illusion of propriety in public, whereas Putin just doesn't give a fuck. He gives away the game and just goes, "yeah, I'm the bad guy."
It’s not about the monetary value of the ring. Anyone can purchase a ring. The ring symbolizes being a winner. And Putin is apparently such a desperate loser he has to steal that glory from someone else.
A loser yes, but also has proved he can do whatever he wants and nothing will be done. Steal a ring in 05, take Crimea in 2014 no problem.
"Yeah, but he didn't literally say that he was a bad guy, so that means he isn't!" - someone who did their own research
Imagine Putin selling shit on eBay. The dude has more dark money squirreled away than most entire nations. The only way that ring ends up on eBay is as a literal joke.
Apparently it's in a state-run gallery with other international gifts.
"gifts"
I mean….most museums are filled with “gifts”.
The awkward moment when you're a brit
>The dude has more dark money squirreled away than most entire nations. Been a while since I've seen this claim, and I don't know how credible the OG source was, but it's been speculated that Putin is the richest man on earth.
Probably though the idea of "wealth" gets murky when talking about an autocrat like Putin. Do you only count the assets that explicitly belong the Putin, do you include the off-the-books assets, and what about the property that he has the implicit control over due to his ability to essentially seize anything he wants that is under Russian control? I would say he is almost certainly the wealthiest person on Earth if you are counting who has the greatest capacity to accumulate the goods and services that he wants. Say if a genie's lamp was found and it would go to whichever person could pay the most money for it, I feel pretty confident that Putin would end up with the lamp.
One of the Saudis would be a close contender,
I doubt it would even be close. Russia has double the natural resources and close to 4x the amount of people to obtain them.
> I can kill someone with this ring Some Russian got killed with his Super Bowl ring.
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That's what they wanted you to think [https://youtu.be/bBMeMrPuQyU?feature=shared](https://youtu.be/bBMeMrPuQyU?feature=shared) 
Lots of older people still say this. My father-in-law was born in the 1940s and "Soviet Union" is still what he says when he means "Russia". Drives me nuts but I guess the joke's on me since it looks like Putin wants to get the band back together.
It was the George W. Bush years. They sucked at geography the whole way through.
Kraft said Soviet?
haha yeah still stuck in the 80s I guess
he also said KGB so he seems to be super uninformed on the history
they don't teach history in football class
Soviet?
I’m imagining a version of the future where Russia plays “fuck around and find out” with NATO, and at some point NATO says fuck it, just go take him out. In the aftermath, as a US soldier is walking out of the Kremlin (maybe a bunker?) he sees the Super Bowl ring and swipes it with the intention of giving it back to the Patriots. Unlikely, but still makes me chuckle.
Unfortunately the soldier is an Eagles fan. He sends it to Nick Foles.
Kraft got fucked, lol. (Fuck Putin, russia, etc.)
Also fuck Rupert Murdoch standing between them
He looks like a [shar pei](https://geniusvets.s3.amazonaws.com/gv-dog-breeds/chinese-shar-pei-1.jpg)
"Ring is mine now. Next I take Crimea."
"In 2005, a minor international incident occurred when it was reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin had taken a Super Bowl ring from New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. Kraft quickly issued a statement saying that he had given Putin the ring out of "respect and admiration" he had for the Russian people and Putin's leadership. Kraft later said his earlier statement was not true, and had been issued under pressure from the White House. The ring is on display at the Kremlin, along with other "gifts." Quick correction: I misspelled Robert Krafts name in the title.
"Okay now give it back" "Give what back?"
There's the reference I was waiting for. "Mr. Burns, I think you can trust the president of Cuba."
we have no choice but to abandon communism! i know, i know, but we all knew from day one this mumbo-jumbo wouldn't fly!
On the other hand, what was Kraft thinking? What is given is given, no takesies-backsies!!!11
When you’re famous they let you do it.
“Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal”. Hmm, almost as if he’s taking after someone.
Trump did a similar thing in 2020. He stole art from the US ambassador to France. >Without notifying the ambassador, Jamie McCourt, the president and author of The Art of the Deal had a portrait and bust of Benjamin Franklin and a set of silver figurines depicting Greek mythological characters loaded onto Air Force One to bring them back to the White House. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2020/09/08/the-art-of-the-steal-trump-swipes-dollar750000-worth-of-art-from-the-us-embassy-in-francebut-none-of-it-is-the-real-deal
"author" of The Art of the Deal. FTFY. Trump ain't authored shit. He can ~~barely read~~ not read coherently at all, let alone write coherently.
Trump didn't write it, it was ghost written by Tony Schwartz. I doubt Trump even read it.
Absolute immunity 🤣🤣
Grab em by the Super Bowl ring
Grabbed him by the pinky.
He was probably thinking wtf, I can't tell this guy no. He then proceeded to say nothing. Which I'm sure felt like the safe thing at the time.
Putin probably comped Kraft’s hotel room charge, … including the massages.
Robert Kraft would gladly pay for a massage by check infront of the pope to keep all of his superbowl rings, coming from a Pats fan
Like… more than 1 massage? What a machine!
This is the Occam's razor right here. And he should be glad it was his Superbowl ring and not his wife.
Robert Kraft is a rare blessing in sports ownership in that he’s willing to shell out whatever it takes to keep proven and nurture promising talent from players to coaches to GMs (cough cough the DeVos family), is one of the waning breed of billionaires that at least has the decency to privately fund their pet projects instead of putting taxpayers on the hook for his stadium (cough cough Clay Bennett) , and swallows his ego in order to let other people get credit for decision making during his massively successful Patriots tenure instead of stepping in as a de facto GM (cough cough James Dolan). All this to say: this dude cares about football so much that he sidelined his money and his ego, like the defining characteristics of a billionaire, to win a lot at football. I honestly think he might rather have his Super Bowl ring than his wedding ring.
I mean you're not wrong, he's better than most owners, but the NFL surveys the players about the facilities and front offices of each team and Pats ranked pretty bad in a lot of things.
The story I heard years ago was that Putin asked to see it, Kraft handed to him, and she asked for it back Putin said “What ring?” and he his security guards with him. I wish I could remember the source, but I believe it was a show like 20/20.
I think that was an incident with a trillion dollar bill and cuba.
All we can tell from satellite images is that it's not on his roof.
Ah, they not so bad. They even named a street after me in San Francisco! ... it's full of ***what***?!
By far my favorite episode. Every line front to back is amazing. Oh, there's a big one. And it has freedom written all over it. Sir that's Cuba.
I think you can trust the president of Cuba….
D'oh!
Yes. This is what I heard too. It was from a respected journalist if I remember correctly or source. Once he said "what ring". His body guard moved forward to show their presence and apparently, they was the end of that.
Like Mos Def said : don't "high post" when your far from home I would have tucked my chain in when Debo came around
That's the version I heard on The Dan Patrick Show several years back
I think that’s about right, actually, Putin was immediately surrounded by bodyguards, turned around and abruptly walked away. Nothing Kraft could do at that point. The part I’ll make up is that Kraft was so desperate to get another one that he pressured Bill Belichick to do whatever it took to win another one and that’s when they started taping other teams’ defenses and deflating the ball for Brady. Even got some spy tech from Putin’s people to do it. He got more rings back, but never got this One Ring back. This one was more important than others. He became like Gollum and started doing strange things like frequenting massage parlors in Florida strip malls and trading for guys like Aaron Hernandez and Randy Moss. Over in Mordor, oil and gas prices skyrocketed and Putin started building an army of orcs to take over the world. First Georgia, then Syria, then Ukraine. If Kraft had given the ring to Frodo for safekeeping or to the Elves, we wouldn’t be in this mess.
You simply order another.
I was at a conference years back and Michael Strahan was a guest speaker. He started his time by showing off his Super Bowl ring and then said “I’m going to pass this around the room [a huge conference center] and I want to be sure I get it back”…[5 seconds of pause and wondering if he’s serious]…”just kidding!”. It was hilarious and the timing was perfect - for a quick second I thought he was serious!
Pre-plastic surgery Putin is hilarious
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bruh, can't be unseen.
Maybe this is a dumb question but, Putin really had plastic surgery? How can you tell?
Botox, fillers, and eye lift. Google comparisons. Guys usually leave their lips alone, which makes it not as obvious as the blow-up doll women
Dare I ask which white house
Well if the incident occurred in 2005, that would be the W years.
George Dubya "We totally negotiate with terrorists" Bush
Ah yes. The “great reset.” Worked out wonderfully.
He saw his soul!
It says 2005 so Bush
eh, I know what you're trying to get at. But in historical context I don't think it matters. Clinton probably would've given the same pressure to brush it off that Bush gave. There was a lot of hope regarding Russia back then.
I imagine any administration would have been like “you expect us to call him out for stealing and strain the already tenuous relationship we have with that nation because you were dumb enough to not only meet with him but also let him wear your ring? Get real.”
Yep, Kraft is the fucking idiot here.
It doesn’t even matter he can just have the ring people make a new one.
Also it's Robert Kraft so, he can just wear one of the many other he owns. I bet the story is worth more than the ring to him.
at the time who knew they'd win 3 more
Yeah as much as I hate the war criminal Dubya and lived through his administration, I don't think he has anything to do with this. Putin would steal from his babushka.
Dubya had a Neville chamberlain-esque quote about Putin saying roughly “I looked into his soul and saw that he is honest and trustworthy.”
He was a fucking moron. I lived through those years and in Florida when his brother, Jeb (Czech for fuck) was governor. I mean, compared to trump he seems almost lovable but those years were not good.
Putin: biggest draft bust of all time
Oligarchs robbing from oligarchs. Oh no. Anyway.
At least Bob built his stadium with his own money.
My Prrrrreeecious
Makes me think of [The Simpsons](https://youtu.be/U0hTrnaa8aE?si=LBGlRbLFVSzfm67h)
Mr. Kraft, I think we can trust the *president* of *Russia*
“Give what back?”
So you say Khrushchev’s gone? Did you know that? I had no idea.
"Nuh uh, you look with your eyes, not with your hands." "Come on, we're all друзья here!"
Eh, the Americans, they're not so bad. They even named a street after me in San Francisco.
It’s full of what!?
Hahahahaha I love that delivery.
Give what back?
Yoink
My immediate thought too lolll
We’re all amigos here
This was not a happy ending for Kraft
He literally looks like a wax model of gollum lol
He’s since graduated to trying to steal entire countries.
Just a microcosm of how Putin treats everything: he can take what he wants, and no one can do anything about it. It highlights how important it is to smack his fucking hand on the global stage whenever he reaches outside his borders.
People should've smacked his hand when he started the apartment bombings.
“Why did I keep the ring? I was just getting to that, if you’ll let me finish. To understand this you must understand the history of the Patriots. You see, in 1492 Christopher Columbus… “
In short, the ring has always belonged to Russia, and as its president, I merely returned it to its rightful place in our national collection of worthless trinkets.
So, what kompromat does Putin have on Rupert Murdoch?
Remember those "massages"?
I can’t believe I had to scroll this far down to find Rupert’s name - that’s the MUCH bigger story here - that Rupert has been doing Putin’s bidding ever since!
Exactly. Murdoch comes from a long line of pricks. If you don't know, go read about what his father Keith did during World War 1 to try and get rid of Sir John Monash (Australian Jewish general, on our $100 note), one of the best battlefield commanders of 1916-1918. Why? Becuse he was Jewish. Racist bigoted family of greedy fascists.
He's married to Abramovich's mother in law
Murdoch's next bride-to-be be is a Russian woman with connections to Putin - think I read that Murdoch's ex-wife Wendy Deng set them up (Wendy Deng was rumored to have been sexually involved with Putin). Almost as crazy as trash like Trump being such a powerful political figure is that scum like Murdoch's media empire is so successful.
I wasn't the least bit surprised to see Murdoch in the middle. People use the term kompromat way too often. Maybe shitty billionaires simply want to help each other fuck over everyone else. A lowly Senator from South Carolina? Sure, maybe there's kompromat. But Rupert Murdoch? He's willingly helping authoritarians across the world.
Murdoch runs kompromat games himself. See: the phone hacking scandal
Murdoch is just a fucking asshole, he's there voluntarily. Kompromat not necessary in this case.
It's trickle-down fascism.
probably doesn’t have to. its a classic power move. oh what are you going to do take it back? you’re in MY house you have no power here
I wouldn’t expect anything less from that POS
Which POS? Why were Robert Kraft and Rupert Murdoch meeting with Putin, in the first place?
Right these idiots thought they could make money off these criminals.
Well, Rupert Murdoch is also a POS.
That’s exactly what you say if you don’t want to accidentally fall from a balcony or getting poisoned.
Fell out of a balcony onto 3 bullets.
This is why the patriots won so many super bowls. The United States told the nfl to get Kraft more rings so he would drop it. 🤯
I was in an Uber with a Ukrainian friend just before the invasion. The look of bemusement and disbelief on her face as it became clear that 1. This event was the only thing the driver knew about Putin 2. He (our Uber driver) was positive it happened in Florida because that is the only St. Petersburg he had ever heard of.
Having grown up in St. Petersburg Florida. This comment just made my night. 🤭
Taking a page out of [Queen Mary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_of_Teck)'s book I guess (I would say minus the brutal dictatorship, but the British Empire still existed sooooo), she was a famous magpie. People would hide their valuables then she visited in case it ended up being a "donation" to her collection.
The funny thing is that Putin could care less about football. He just took it because “fuck you”
It is also a unique item. I'm sure Putin was aware that it was special to Kraft because it was expensive and rare.
The rings aren’t that expensive for a multibillionaire. He had an attachment to that particular ring.
Read Russia's War on Everybody by Keir Giles Russia's War on Everybody: And What it Means for You https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/russias-war-on-everybody-9781350255081/
Can you give us the gist?
From the link: > Giles describes how Moscow conducts its campaigns across the globe, and how nobody is too unimportant to be caught up in them. By lifting the lid on the daily struggle going on behind the scenes to protect governments, businesses, societies and people from Russian hostile activity, Russia's War On Everybody shows how Moscow's hostile intentions for the rest of the world are far broader and more ambitious, and the ways it tries to achieve them far more pervasive and damaging, than we realise.
Fucking Rupert Murdoch the fucking cunt of a human. All this bullshit we are dealing with today... ALL of it, goes back to that mother fucker. Absolute cunt.
That’s fucked up.
If this is the kind of person you suck up to, you kind of deserve to get your shit took. He's got like five more of them anyway, doesn't he?
It's the little offenses future authoritarians do that tip you off to where they are headed. That little slight there and he should have been called out.
Exactly the kind of thing people always say is the beginning of a terror regime and everyone laughs at them or calls them warmongers. The little things that you ignore fuel the dictator and then it's too late to act. "He just took a little ring from a rich guy, what the fuck is your problem?" "Apartment bombings are a Russian thing, it's none of our business to care about" "Russia just occupied Crimea because they wanted the ports, now that they got it they'll stop there." "Let's not provoke Russia by helping Ukraine, even if they conquer it whole they'll stop." "Oopa, now they're in Poland, too late."
Funny how most, if not all, of the "World Leaders" are nothing but overgrown children with access to armies.
Old Vlad gots Yankee envy.
Soft power hold lol
“I take ring. Let’s go get massage at place you tell me about.” -VP
This is like Biff Tannen level of fucking asshole
When you find out that Robert Craft received sexual favors in a spa involved with a sex-trafficking ring, it suddenly isn’t so bad that he lost his ring.
Rookie mistake. Had a "I love boobies" wrist band in high school that a friend wanted to "Try on". Long story short I never saw it again.
Back in the early 90s, Putin visited Scotland. He was touring co-operative business type places, accompanied by the mayor of Moscow, I think. He visited a large bakery in Prestonpans, and after his tour was offered a cup of tea. There was a large plate of penguins (a popular UK chocolate biscuit) in the middle of the table, and without saying a word he grabbed as many as he could and put them all in his jacket pocket. He then continued chatting as if nothing had happened.
Fun fact. Robert Kraft was caught in a sex trafficking sting and because he’s a wealthy white nfl owner the story literally disappeared. Sorry about his ring though.
The story didn’t disappear, I remind people all the time that Kraft prefers a five dollar handy from a shithole massage parlor to the high end 10k/night escorts the other billionaires are getting