The headline is a head-scratcher: “Robert Kraft: My GF Gave Birth But I’m NOT the Father!” shouts a Thursday tweet from gossip site TMZ Sports.
It’s just the latest in a surprising series of stories for the NFL’s most buttoned-up franchise, one that prides itself on saying as little as possible, no matter what’s bubbling under the surface.
On Wednesday night, PageSix.com posted a story claiming that there was “speculation” that 76-year-old Kraft, the New England Patriots’ owner and CEO, had fathered a secret child with his much-younger girlfriend, Ricki Noel Lander.
But Kraft’s representative has since released a statement to Page Six and TMZ clarifying the situation, and saying, well, Kraft isn’t the baby daddy.