CBSSports- So to commemorate the team’s epic rally from a 28-3 deficit, the Patriots put 283 diamonds in their Super Bowl championship rings. And why not? It’s kind of hard for a guy who’s had give out four previous celebratory rings to come up with new ideas to make them unique.
His players certainly loved their new bling, but it appears Falcons owner Arthur Blank was not too happy with this decision. In fact, it pissed him off quite a bit, and he made sure he let Kraft know it when the two met up for dinner in New York prior to the 2017 NFL season, according to the New York Times. But the ring stunt bothered him. He found it unnecessary and tacky. “I said to Robert, ‘You didn’t have to do the 28-3 in the ring,’” he told me recently. “It kind of pissed me off.” ------- Ahhh see, what we have here is just a simple misunderstanding. This isn't an overly sensitive reaction to innocent trolling, because - assuming Falcons players weren't made to sit in a sweatshop and count the diamonds, band by band, as Patriots players stood around laughing at them - this wasn't even trolling. Instead, this is one NFL owner having absolute no familiarity with how Super Bowl rings work, and when you give it about a half second of thought it becomes pretty easy to see why he wouldn't be able to comprehend the design process behind commemorative jewelry. Ignorance aside, could Arthur Blank have more of a loser's mentality? His team crapped away a 28-3 lead in just over a quarter in the biggest game in franchise history and he's not most concerned with how his organization wasted what now appears to be their starting quarterback's best season with dumbass play calling and a collective amount of situational awareness that you'd expect from someone who farts at a funeral. Nope, rather he's found himself enraged by the concept of the winning team immortalizing the historic odds they overcame in gems fit for their hands and their hands alone. To the victors go the spoils, so if Robert Kraft felt so inclined he could have tried to get his mitts on Arthur Blank's tears so he could have them crystalized in the face of the each ring, but that's not even the point. The point is that the rest of the sports' world treats the 2-8-3 sequence of numbers as an overdone jab at the Falcons, but the Patriots treat it as a reminder of what they were able to accomplish regardless of the fact that it came at the expense of the Falcons. Being how significant the comeback was in its own right, as well they goddamn should embrace it as loudly and proudly as it now embraces their fingers - no matter how much it hurts feelings that are as fragile as the psyche of the team that made it all possible.
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