Sometimes the pettiest, puniest, tiniest, smallest incidents can change history in unexpected ways. It might just be that way with a Boston billionaire still crying over his stolen special Super Bowl ring.
The New England Patriots' historic fifth Super Bowl win against all odds opened the door to the long known story about how Russian president Vladimir Putin casually pocketed Patriots owner Robert Kraft's diamond-encrusted ring commemorating one of his team's victories in the Super Bowl – and damn it, after all these years, he still wants it back.
According to New York Times reporter Steven Lee Myers, in his book The New Tsar, in 2005, Citibank big Sandy Weill took a group of businessmen to Moscow to see the Russian leader at a reception. Kraft was with the group, fresh from his team's third win at the Super Bowl. Kraft had a diamond-encrusted ring worth $25,000 commemorating the victory, which apparently was too precious to him to wear, so he kept it in his pocket. According to Myers, the group was glad-handing with Putin until Weill asked Kraft to show Putin his ring. Putin ogled the ring with awe and then casually took the precious object and put it in his pocket, walking off with three security guards, before a horrified Kraft could stop him. The ring, after all, was Kraft's baby, because he was so proud of his team. It meant something. And for a man with enough money to buy anything, it was irreplaceable. Read more here: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/02/gollum_in_the_kremlin.html
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