[dfrench8456]

I was wondering if anyone had any pictures or plans or blueprints or something of the stadium that was gonna be built for the Patriots back in 1999, Thanks in advance.

[wanderintonc]

I don't know of any, I think that place only existed in Fantasy Land...

[dfrench8456]

well iv found this one picture so im sure they could be more

[hfd]

Fantasy Land? I hope you are joking if not you were clearly living under a rock.
Robert Kraft, the owner of the Patriots came to Hartford and signed an agreement at the State Capitol to move the team here. There were designs and drawings and season tickets sold. In fact, the corporate response to the team moving was nothing short of impressive. They sold out the skyboxes! That is something Kraft couldn't do in Foxboro until the won a Super Bowl.
Anyway, Kraft renenged on the deal, and as it turned out he was using Connecticut as a bargaining chip. It worked.

[JayCT]

Actually it didn't work. He did not get anything more from Massachusetts than they were offering before Connecticut got involved. It was really "low" what he did to the state but what is worse is we let him do it to us. The policitains said they were going after him to recoup the money but that never went anywhere. Jay

[hfd]

It worked in the sense that Mass built a stadium. They did offer infrastructure improvements.

[wanderintonc]

Originally Posted by hfd

Fantasy Land? I hope you are joking if not you were clearly living under a rock.
Robert Kraft, the owner of the Patriots came to Hartford and signed an agreement at the State Capitol to move the team here. There were designs and drawings and season tickets sold. In fact, the corporate response to the team moving was nothing short of impressive. They sold out the skyboxes! That is something Kraft couldn't do in Foxboro until the won a Super Bowl.
Anyway, Kraft renenged on the deal, and as it turned out he was using Connecticut as a bargaining chip. It worked.

Exactly-hence my post saying that it was to be built in Fantasy Land-it was using CT as a bargaining chip. Dude was never going to build it here.

[JViello]

I remember Krafty shedding a tear on TV in the state capital at one meeting.

Perhaps he didn't expect to find so many willing and decent people here and felt bad after he saw the overwhelming response...Nah, he's just a scumbag.

I'm glad the Pats got stomped.

[BigHouse9]

I knew from day one that the Patriots were never going to move to CT. I had friends rushing to buy tickets but I never gave it a second thought.

Personally I am still more p*ssed about the way that the Whalers were handled.

[KNOTTE]

Originally Posted by BigHouse9

I knew from day one that the Patriots were never going to move to CT. I had friends rushing to buy tickets but I never gave it a second thought.

Personally I am still more p*ssed about the way that the Whalers were handled.

Don't even get me started on the Whalers! My husband and I went to nearly every home game the last two years they were in Hartford - the last year they ALMOST got to the playoffs - we prebought tickets for all the playoff games even though we would have had to cancel our honeymoon. It would have been worth it! If only.... then the moved and broke our hearts.