Longtime Patriots fan Jerry Edmond kept his cool -- which has led to something really cool: a phone call from Robert Kraft, two tickets to Saturday's Patriots game at Gillette Stadium, a custom jersey and two field-passes to watch pre-game warm-ups.
Longtime New England Patriots fan Jerry Edmond was just trying to enjoy his first-ever NFL game when the verbal abuse began.
"It all started when the woman comes up to me and she tells me it is disrespectful that I am cheering for the Patriots in the Raiders' stadium," Edmond said Thursday. Edmond was with is friends in Las Vegas, excited to watch the Patriots play against the Las Vegas Raiders.Get New England news, weather forecasts and entertainment stories to your inbox."At first I didn't fully understand what she was saying, I kind of just brushed it off and let it go," Edmond said."My best bet is just to kind of sit here and ignore you."
As the intensity of the abuse continued, Edmond just let the two fans berate him, hoping it might just stop. A video of Edmond's calm under pressure has gone viral, viewed some 8 million times. "I didn't want this woman to ruin my day, ruin this, because at the end of the day, it was still my first experience at an NFL game," he said."I didn't want my day to get ruined, or anyone else's day, so I tried to keep my cool there."
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