Robert Kraft isn’t quite there yet, but he’s teetering on the edge. All he needs to add is a silver-and-black jumpsuit with matching lawsuit and he’ll have become Al Davis.
I’m sure that’s not what he aspires to.
Kraft has always seemed a reasonable man who understood that, while he has become one of the most powerful owners in the National Football League by hard work and business intelligence, he’s also not an island unto himself but rather, as the poet John Donne put it, “a piece of the continent; a part of the main.” If he still believes that, angry as he may be over the repercussions of the Deflategate scandal that again has his organization in the NFL’s crosshairs, he needs to start acting like it.