# Putin snags SB ring **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 29, 2005, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putin-snags-sb-ring/310383 "2005-06-29T16:34:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putin-snags-sb-ring/310383/1 "2005-06-29T16:34:24Z")
[Link](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8402895/) Ok, assuming it wasn’t a gift, but rather a misunderstanding…I can’t believe that Kraft just let him keep the ring. WTF? I’m sorry, but I’d be damned if I’d let someone else keep my Superbowl ring. But then I never would have taken it off of my fucking hand. Is it common for leaders of nations to just assume that anything someone hands them is a gift? ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putin-snags-sb-ring/310383/2 "2005-06-29T16:39:47Z")
If the former head of the KGB put my Superbowl ring in his pocket, why I’d… I’d… I’d let him keep it, and be thankful he’s not having me killed. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putin-snags-sb-ring/310383/3 "2005-06-29T17:00:19Z")
Yeah, this is quite a strange story. I’m watching my pockets the next time I hang with pooty poot. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putin-snags-sb-ring/310383/4 "2005-06-29T18:03:16Z")
Kraft probably deserved it. Here’s a transcript of the conversation … Kraft: Man, it’s a shame you don’t get the Simpsons here. I heard a great joke … Putin: :dubious: Kraft: Yea, it’s a shame you barbarians here in the sticks don’t get, like, satellite, and stuff … Putin: :rolleyes: Yoink! (Takes ring) Kraft: :eek: Putin: HA-ha! ---
**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putin-snags-sb-ring/310383/5 "2005-06-29T18:29:27Z")
Ok, **Ponder** , that was good. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putin-snags-sb-ring/310383/6 "2005-06-29T19:31:13Z")
I knew those Patriots were in league with the commies. 😉 It’s only one month until training camp… ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putin-snags-sb-ring/310383/7 "2005-06-29T19:34:38Z")
Who exactly makes the rings? If I’m the owner of an NFL team and they win the Super Bowl, can’t I order 1000 rings, to give out as gifts, etc? If so, he should have a couple in his pocket at all times for just these occasions. If not, Kraft f\*cked up by taking it off. ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putin-snags-sb-ring/310383/8 "2005-06-29T20:35:23Z")
**Ponder** , I’m _this close_ to believing you. I bet it was a lot more like this: > [@](#): > > JERRY: What kind of pen is that? > > JACK: This pen? > > JERRY: Yeah. > > JACK: This is an astronaut pen. It writes upside down. They use this in space. > > JERRY: Wow! That’s the astronaut pen. I heard about that. Where did you get it? > > JACK: Oh it was a gift. > > JERRY: Cause sometimes I write in bed and I have to turn and lean on my elbow to make the pen works. > > JACK: Take the pen. > > JERRY: Oh no. > > JACK: Go ahead. > > JERRY: I couldn’t > > JACK: Come on, take the pen! > > JERRY: I can’t take it. > > JACK: Do me a personal favor! > > JERRY: No, I’m not… > > JACK: Take the pen! > > JERRY: I cannot take it! > > JACK: Take the pen! > > JERRY: Are you sure? > > JACK: Positive! Take the pen! > > JERRY: O.K. Thank you very much. Thank you. Gee, boy! ---
**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putin-snags-sb-ring/310383/9 "2005-06-30T00:13:33Z")
Apparently Kraft intended to give it to him. [Thus sprach CNN.](http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/06/29/putin.ring.ap/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putin-snags-sb-ring/310383/10 "2005-06-30T00:18:54Z")
It’s not like Kraft can’t get another one. They aren’t supplied by the NFL, but by the teams themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putin-snags-sb-ring/310383/11 "2005-06-30T00:30:47Z")
I saw James Carville on Pardon The Interruption (an ESPN show) saying that there was no way in hell that Kraft would ever consider asking for it back. Well, not if he wanted to do a single dollar of business in Russia, he wouldn’t. Funnily enough, at the end of the show, they had the announcement that Absolute linked to, “confirming” that the ring was intended as a gift. Yeah, that’s not spin. 😉 Look at that, another market just opened for Bob Kraft! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putin-snags-sb-ring/310383/12 "2005-06-30T15:04:59Z")
"My Preciousssss! (Gollum) We hates Putinses! We hates Putinses _forever_!" ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putin-snags-sb-ring/310383/13 "2005-06-30T15:40:33Z")
I think Putin purposely bogarted it. “Ah, nice ring. Think I’ll keep it. What’s he going to do about it, disrupt decades of international peace talks? Besides, he’s a capitalist pig. He’ll just get one of his third world peons to make him a new one.” Smile. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putin-snags-sb-ring/310383/14 "2005-06-30T15:48:49Z")
> [@Knowed Out](#): > > I think Putin purposely bogarted it. “Ah, nice ring. Think I’ll keep it. What’s he going to do about it, disrupt decades of international peace talks? Besides, he’s a capitalist pig. He’ll just get one of his third world peons to make him a new one.” Smile. I like this concept. Well, what _would_ you do? Leap on Putin and start wrestling him for it? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putin-snags-sb-ring/310383/15 "2005-06-30T15:51:04Z")
I don’t think that the ring was intended to be a gift at first. I think that Craft came forward to say it was to help Putin save face. Of course Craft is now in a position of having favours done for him if he has a business venture that he could take to Russia. ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putin-snags-sb-ring/310383/16 "2005-06-30T15:51:17Z")
Hell no. The Russians are incredible wrestlers. ---
**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putin-snags-sb-ring/310383/17 "2005-06-30T16:09:59Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > I don’t think that the ring was intended to be a gift at first. I think that Craft came forward to say it was to help Putin save face. Of course Craft is now in a position of having favours done for him if he has a business venture that he could take to Russia. That’s what I’m thinking as well.