Robert K. Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots, who has been confrontational while warring with the N.F.L. over whether his team inappropriately deflated footballs in a conference championship game four months ago, on Tuesday said that he would accept the league’s punishment and not continue the debate over the Patriots’ culpability.
“I don’t want to continue the rhetoric that has gone on for the last four months,” Kraft said at a news conference at the N.F.L. owners meeting at the Ritz Carlton in San Francisco. “I’m going to accept reluctantly what he has given to us and not continue this dialogue and rhetoric.