Boston Magazine Publishes the Most Nonsensical Hatchet Job On Mr. Kraft of All Time

Boston Magazine – The past couple of years, he’s been making calls that begin like so: “This is Robert Kraft. Do you know who I am?” Andrew Schiff answered the phone to that question last year at the Rhode Island Community Food Bank. He said to Robert Kraft, “I know who you are. But I have no idea why you would be calling me.” “I have good news for you,” Kraft said. He told Schiff that he was giving his nonprofit, which teaches culinary skills to unemployed adults, $100,000. But something’s changed since Myra died four years ago. Robert is now 74. He’s still writing checks, still feeding the homeless, still going off to charity board meetings. He’s still busy by nature. Still, in fact, driven. Why, just this summer he took 19 Hall of Fame football players on a weeklong trip to Israel, on his own dime.

Still, something about Robert Kraft feels…off. Even—or especially—when he’s being generous. For example: At the end of their Israel trip, the Hall of Famers were asked to describe—in front of a Kraft Sports Productions film crew—how the journey had changed them. Their impromptu salutes to the Holy Land and, incidentally, to Kraft were broadcast via the Web so all the world could see that the greatest athletes had made a spiritual pilgrimage alongside their guide and benefactor. Though not a question, it begs an answer, and I have conflicting evidence. Kraft really has become a hands-on giver—going to the Rhode Island Community Food Bank himself to check it out, and finding jobs for some graduates in Gillette Stadium’s cafeteria. He’s committed to doing good. But the phone calls, the grandstanding, the unfettered rage at the NFL are curious, as if now Robert Kraft, who has gotten everything he has ever reached for, is worried, after years of polishing his image into a blinding gleam, that we still don’t know who he is. “Robert Kraft,” he says, “is the neediest man I have ever met.”

So Boston Magazine published this article on Bob Kraft today. No joke it’s one of the weirdest articles I’ve ever read in my life. One thing that becomes obvious right away is that the author hates Bob Kraft. It’s clear he holds a grudge against him. It’s clear he’s trying to make him look bad.  For what?  Who knows?  But this article seems to insinuate that the only reason Bob Kraft donates his time and money to charity is so people will kiss his ass for doing it.  At least I think that’s the thesis? And in order to prove it they give countless examples of Bob Kraft giving away millions of dollars and making huge impacts in people’s lives through philanthropy. How he’ll call random charities and ask if they know who he is before changing their lives forever. Like gee what a jerk Bob Kraft is for not anonymously donating hundreds of millions of dollars? Gee what a jerk Bob Kraft is for making Curtis Martin weep while talking about how the Kraft’s saved his life.   It’s bananaland. Boston Magazine even takes him to task for dating his smoke girlfriend despite the fact his family openly supports it.

All in all just a very weird odd hatchet job by Boston Magazine. It just seems like sour grapes from an author that must have some hidden grudge we don’t know about it. It’s just tough to paint a guy as a villain by exposing all his charity work and having an endless stream of people say he changed their lives. To make it seem like somehow wanting to leave a lasting legacy makes him some crazy egomaniac or a needy person.  I kept reading and waiting for the other shoe to drop and it just never came.  It was just like what an asshole this guy is for being so giving and wanting to help so many people.