Patriots owner Robert Kraft, in a profile on HBO’s Real Sports airing Tuesday night, offered a sharp answer when asked what he thinks of the critics who accuse the five-time Super Bowl champions of succeeding through sometimes dubious measures.
“Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases,’’ said Kraft, who provided access to reporter Andrea Kremer in the lead-up to the Patriots’ victory in Super Bowl LI. “The haters still hate. And I understand it, and we’ll do our best to keep them in that position.”
Kraft said the two-year Deflategate saga – which was punctuated and perhaps avenged with the Patriots’ 34-28 overtime victory against the Falcons in the Super Bowl – bothered him deeply.