Patriots Owner Bob Kraft "may consider selling the team
if his Hartford stadium deal falls apart in coming weeks,"
according to a source close to the team cited by Tina
Cassidy of the BOSTON GLOBE. However, Kraft "has not given
up hope" that the CT deal "will go through." In the last
several days, Kraft "has downplayed" the significance of an
April 2 deadline by which CT officials must show they can
clear a stadium site, "saying he has 30 days beyond that
date to make a final decision." As Kraft faces the "bleak
scenario" of CT officials not meeting the relocation
deadline and possibly having to keep the Patriots in MA, the
source said he "would rather sell the team than remain" in
Foxboro. The source: "If Connecticut can't happen, for
whatever reason ... that's clearly an option." Patriots Dir
of Media Relations Stacey James declined comment. In other
news, the Patriots hired Boston political/media strategy
firm Regan Communications to handle issues relating to the
stadium, though the firm "was not working on contingency
plans for a failed Hartford deal" (BOSTON GLOBE, 3/24).
