St. Patrick’s Day has to be a tough one for Patriots owner Robert Kraft, what with all the wearing of the green.
The fact one of his best players just decided to wear it didn’t help.
Via Brian Costello of the New York Post, Kraft had a few jokes while speaking at a St. Patrick’s Day breakfast in Boston.
“I must tell you, I’m not comfortable wearing green and white because it reminds me of a certain New York football team,” he said.
Of course, he may have been having some fun with his neighbor, when he suggested he wasn’t far from keeping cornerback Darrelle Revis, who signed a five-year, $70 million deal to join the Jets.
“We’ve been taking a lot of flak about losing one of our best players,” he said. “The money was about the same. [Revis] was actually favoring us, coming to us a little cheaper.”
Kraft followed up by saying Revis demanded that nearby Castle Island Street be renamed Revis Island, which was the deal breaker.
Jokes aside, the real reason Revis moved again was the same reason he always moves — money.
