Bill Belichick is driven past a waiting press corps by Patriots’ owner Robert Kraft in this 1997 photo. Does it look like a still from the movie The Godfather? The reason I snapped this photo, I think, was to provide Herald coverage after the Pat’s lost the Superbowl. With me, from top left, New England Patriots PR good-guy Stacy James, the Boston Herald’s Michael Felger, Gary Gillis and several other sports media types.
In light of revelations that e-mails released yesterday show that some state workers may have felt pressured by the owners of the Patriots and by the Governor’s office to act on a proposed footbridge next to Gillette Stadium, I thought it apropos to show this photo I snapped in March of 2009. I just so happened to stumble on these two powerful men on March 26, 2009. Robert Kraft arrived first and then Governor Patrick for what appeared to be a morning breakfast at “XV Beacon” shortly before 8am. Here, they are seen walking out of the restaurant toward the State House. Photographed for the Boston Herald.
