OT: (Patriots) Kraft charged with soliciting

[buddybikes]

Agree should be legalized. However bringing girls in from 3rd world settings with a promise they will have a better life, then slaving them in a hell hole of a place is totally different. This will hopefully, from society perspective, expose this horrific places.

If he had paid 2,000 for high class independent, no big deal

Hope he transfers team to Jonathan Kraft who appears to have all his marbles

This from a Pats fan.

[pdmtong]

Originally Posted by John H.

Remember when the same thing happened to Jerry Rice?
He was in a massage parlor that got busted or something.
Jerry said he was there for the "therapeutic massage". Local media and Niners PR team did a great job of quickly sweeping it under the rung to save the image of an icon- But this was before social media. Harder to get away with it now.

Jerry was in a parlour on el camino in mountain view at 2am or so. glad someone besides me remembers that. and yes, it quickly got swept under the rug.

Originally Posted by Bruce K

Elderly widower who was madly in love with his wife, Myra.
Compared to the wife beaters, murders, etc the NFL allows to play, this seems like small potatoes. Unless there is a lot more to the story...
BK

small potatoes? the OWNER of the most successful franchise in NFL history (yes, I said it) allegedly on tape and now two counts? even IF he actually did nothing, what is he doing there in the first place?

[FlashUNC]

Originally Posted by pdmtong

Jerry was in a parlour on el camino in mountain view at 2am or so. glad someone besides me remembers that. and yes, it quickly got swept under the rug.

small potatoes? the OWNER of the most successful franchise in NFL history (yes, I said it) allegedly on tape and now two counts? even IF he actually did nothing, what is he doing there in the first place?

This is the team that employed a guy who murdered three people. So....solicitation probably is small potatoes by that comparison.

[makoti]

Originally Posted by Bruce K

Again, I’ll wait for details, but let’s lay off his deceased wife.

BK

No one brought up his wife except you. I agree she's not an issue in this.
Even if it's just solicitation, it's bad for the image. Until sex work becomes legal, it will most often NOT a victimless crime. It should be legal, because it isn't going to be stopped. It should be regulated, with safe zones for the workers.

[pdmtong]

Originally Posted by FlashUNC

This is the team that employed a guy who murdered three people. So....solicitation probably is small potatoes by that comparison.

I partially watched a replay of the 2002 SB and it was eerie to see 81 on the field.

[joosttx]

Originally Posted by FlashUNC

This is the team that employed a guy who murdered three people. So....solicitation probably is small potatoes by that comparison.

just another example of a Patriot illegally deflating his balls.....

[unterhausen]

I wanted to add this to the end of the "say it ain't so, Bill" thread, but this thread was posted before I could do that.

Doesn't Kraft have friends that could hook him up with an escort? Never been my impression that going to a parlor is a good idea.

[Bruce K]

Makoti - one of the posts just before that one said some about Kraft’s wife being none too happy.

I didn’t make it up.

BK

[nickl]

Originally Posted by Bruce K

Let’s leave politics out of this.

There’s enough to discuss as it is.

BK

More about hypocrisy than politics, but the two are inextricably linked during these interesting times.

[Vientomas]

Dude has enough cabbage to go anywhere in the world to satisfy his urges (many places where it is legal), but selects a day spa in a strip mall in Florida. Not once, but twice. Exceedingly poor judgment.

As for the comment about good on him for being 77 and getting his freak on. That's BS. A crime is a crime.

[djg21]

Originally Posted by FlashUNC

Bahahahahahahaha.

Worth $6 billion and he can't find a decent escort? C'mon man.

Patriots have a problem with getting caught with stuff on tape after all.

This is why I’m not quite buying the story. If Kraft wanted to obtain services from a prostitute, you’d think he’d avoid a sleazy rub-and-tug in a strip mall and patronize a high-end escort. There supposedly is a video recording that will be offered into evidence. We will have to see.

[gemship]

Originally Posted by XXtwindad

With all due respect, gemship, "family values" has been used to persecute many different groups of people. I cringe when I hear that term.

I just couldn't think I of a better way of putting it but I do think it's on point. Morality is a powerful thing.

[gemship]

This has been on the local news channels here in Ma. all afternoon. They're a riot with legal analyst and such speculating about this being a police investigation for months. They implied months of evidence but that the news, sad.

[gdw]

I doubt that this story will have the happing ending that Mr Kraft prefers.

[gemship]

Originally Posted by gdw

I doubt that this story will have the happing ending that Mr Kraft prefers.