Last week, Jerry Edmond was at his very first NFL game, calmly putting up with heckling from another person in the stands. This week, the longtime New England Patriots fan got to meet one of the 32 NFL owners.
The Patriots had given Edmond two tickets to Saturday's game, a custom jersey and two field-passes to watch pre-game warm-ups, but Kraft threw in another gift: some of the best seats in the house.Edmond was even seen on the TV broadcast celebrating a crucial interception next to Kraft as New England surged back into the game.
A video of Edmond's calm-under-pressure moment at the Raiders game went viral, viewed millions of times. Jonnu Smith of the New England Patriots hosted an event at the Boys & Girls Club of Boston's Yawkey Club of Roxbury to treat families to Thanksgiving dinner."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."At first I didn't fully understand what she was saying, I kind of just brushed it off and let it go," Edmond recalled.
"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." Afterward, Edmond got a surprise phone call from Kraft, who left him a voicemail thanking him."I think you represented our brand in a very classy way," Kraft said in the message."I love to see that you stayed true and first-class in an environment that could have been provoking."
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