PATS NIX WELD'S LATEST STADIUM IDEA

     The Patriots "blasted" MA Gov. Bill Weld's proposal for a
team-financed stadium in South Boston, "saying in a terse
statement that the governor's idea included 'nothing substantive'
and the team still hopes to see 'a real proposal' sometime soon,"
according to the BOSTON GLOBE.  Weld's "roughly sketched idea"
would give the team a site on waterfront land now owned by the
MassPort, along with publicly-funded mass-transit improvements.
A source close to the Pats noted the $215M Pats Owner Robert
Kraft has offered to pay toward a domed stadium built in tandem
with a convention center would "shrink considerably" for an open-
air stadium (David Halbfinger, BOSTON GLOBE, 11/18).