Who knew Bob Kraft was such an anglophile, enough of one so that the New England Patriots’ owner might be purchasing a share in an English football team, Liverpool? The Pats are playing Tampa Bay this weekend at Wembley, so the Telegraph quoted Kraft yesterday:
” ‘I’ve been to Ladies’ Day at Ascot, dressed in a top hat and tails and feeling like a turkey. But I’ve never been to Wembley. That’s the ‘Mecca’; what a thrill it is to be going to an institution that is very special to the English people.
” ‘We don’t have anything in America that’s a ‘Mecca’. I don’t think the players fully understand it, but they will when they’re there.’ ”
Sounds like Kraft will fit in nicely. Even if he does feel like a turkey.
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Mrs. Bee 10.27.09 at 6:12 pm
Funny, I would have thought he considered a “Mecca” here in the US to be the Super Bowl…but it is never in the same city so maybe that’s why?
How about our “Kentucky Derby”? Always in the same place…
maybe not as big a to-do as “Ascot” but to some it might be…
Jon 11.03.09 at 3:18 pm
There is nothing ‘English’ about Wembley anymore. Don’t believe it? Watch this new vid of Wembley High Street.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1b9J8D3tOg