Video: Robert Kraft Had A Gift For The Patriots Following Their Super Bowl LIII Victory

immediately following the New England Patriots victory over the Los Angeles Rams last night in Super Bowl LIII. Patriots owner Robert Kraft joined the team for their locker room celebration and walked in with a big box of 50-year old cigars for his players.

“I got these from Mr. Padrón,” he said, revealing a rectangular box with a Patriots logo on top. “They’re 50-year-old cigars.”

Mr. Padrón is, presumably, José Orlando Padrón, founder of Padrón Cigars, which began making cigars in Miami in 1964. He’d wanted to give them to Kraft as a gift prior to last year’s Super Bowl, but he died in December 2017.
Padrón’s son made good on the gift, and Kraft held onto them for a year, hoping to pass them out to a Super Bowl champion.

Mr. Kraft is as classy as it gets and it is great to watch his youthful attitude.