Robert Kraft Delivers Message to Vladimir Putin About Roasting Tom Brady’s Super Bowl Ring After Russian Leader Held It for Nearly Two Decades

It’s been 19 years since one of the Super Bowl championship rings belonging to Robert Kraft was claimed by Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Kraft has not forgotten.

During a live stream of The Roast of Tom Brady on Netflix, Kraft called out the world leader.

“In case you’re watching Vladimir Putin, give me back my fucking ring, okay?,” Kraft said after toasting Brady.

The story goes that in 2005, Kraft met the Russian president at an event in St. Petersburg.

“I took out the ring and showed it to him, and he put it on and he said, ‘I can kill someone with this ring,'” Kraft recalled in 2013.

In this image of Kraft shaking hands with Putin, the leader holds the ring in his other hand.

Earlier in the evening, Tom Brady objected to a joke Jeff Ross made about Kraft.

“I reached out and he put it in his pocket, and three KGB men walked around him and came out.”

Kraft claims that a White House staffer asked him not to publicly reveal that the ring was taken against his will and that the official told him to say that he had given the prize to Putin.

So that’s what Kraft did at the time, but he has since noted his “emotional connection” to the ring he won for helping the Patriots to a victory over the Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl XXXIX.

Kremlin officials told reporters in 2013 that the ring was in the Kremlin library with other foreign gifts.

Earlier in the evening, comedian Jeff Ross made a joke suggesting that Brady had offered to give Kraft a massage when they first met. This was in reference to when Kraft was charged with soliciting a prostitute in 2019. Those charges have since been dropped.

Former Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman also made a joke at Kraft’s expense. He said, “I think the next time I see you will be at Kraft’s funeral.”

When Kraft took the microphone later, he retorted: “Julien, I’m not inviting you to my funeral.”