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[QUOTE="Alsacs, post: 3387465, member: 652"]
Patriots only made that SB because Denver choked at home to second year Jacksonville.
Patriots were young and up and coming that point. The SB appearance was luck.

Bob Kraft saved the franchise. The reason the team went down hill was Victor Kiam buying the team in 1988 and firing Raymond Berry who took them to the SB in 1985-86.

Kraft bought the lease to the stadium which prevented the owner who bought the team from Kiam from being able to move the franchise.
Orthwein was a St. Louis beer executive who bought the team in 1991 to move the team to St. Louis since they lost their team to Arizona.
Bob Kraft bought the lease to the stadium and wouldn’t let the team move without paying him over 150 million dollars.
Orthwein couldn’t get out of the lease and didn’t want to pay the exit fee. So he sold the franchise to Bob Kraft in 1993.

Kraft saved the Patriots. Parcells did a decent job but the franchise wasn’t a career loser they had 4 terrible years. Again from 1970-1989 they won more games than your team.
Parcells abandoned the team right when he could have won a SB in the future.
Parcells has admitted he was wrong for he reacted to Kraft.

Duane doesn’t belong in the Pats HOF. He was negotiating with the Jets before finishing the SB with his current team.
He doesn’t belong in their HOF.
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