The thing that gets me about this silly story about Vladimir Putin and the Super Bowl ring…
The Russian president has an eye for the bling: In 2005, he admired — and pocketed — a $25,000 Super Bowl ring with 124 diamonds owned by New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. Putin walked off with his ring, Kraft said last week, and the White House let him get away with it to avoid an international incident…
The NFL owner claims he met the Putin during a meeting of top corporate execs in St. Petersburg, reports the New York Post. Kraft was showing off his oversized bling when Putin slipped it on his finger and said, “I can kill someone with this ring,” Kraft said he put his hand out to get it back when Putin “put it in his pocket, and three KGB guys got around him and walked out.”…
… is that Putin’s first thought was that he could kill somebody with it. How like him that seems.
By the way, Kraft now says he was joking; that he meant for Putin to have the ring as a gift. Maybe he’s remembered that Putin now has a ring with which he can kill a guy (not that he needed it, according to the Daily Mail)…
By the way… Best tabloid headline about this: The New York Post‘s “Vlad: The precious is mine!”
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This a way weird story all the way around! Do people act like that outside of the movies?