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After 38 years in the Boston area, the New England Patriots announced last week they will leave Massachusetts in 2001 for a new stadium to be built in downtown Hartford, Conn. The move, which comes after negotiations with Patriots owner Robert K. Kraft to keep the Patriots in the Commonwealth failed, is hardly surprising: The sad state of professional sports has finally arrived in Boston...
...Kraft, like so many other franchise owners in all of the major sports, felt the state owed him a living. He demanded, and eventually received from Connecticut, a publicly financed stadium, a raft of tax breaks and numerous financial guarantees. Were it not for the strong opposition of House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran (D-Mattapan), the state likely would have given in to Kraft's demands...
Owners like Kraft would not have the gall to make such demands if they didn't know all too well that many cities and states are willing to give in to them...
...where exactly, Mr. Kraft, are the fans going to come from? It's 100 miles from Boston to Hartford. Can Hartford, a city of 130,000 residents, have half of its population fill the proposed 68,000-seat stadium? Only time will tell...
...Kraft showed his smarts yesterday in signing a tentative deal that would bring his team to Hartford for the next 30 years...