Since Massachusetts recognizes gay marriage and NFL Patriots owner Bob Kraft is a widow the stage is set for Kraft to marry Russian President Vladimir Putin in a ceremony to take place at half time during the Patriots home opener against the New York Jets on Thursday night, September 12. President Putin and former spouse Lyudmila Putina announced their divorce on June 6 of this year clearing the way for the international betrothal.
Their secret engagement dates back to 2005 just a year after Massachusetts became the first state to legalize gay marriage but both Mr. Kraft and President Putin were married to women at the time. Myra Kraft passed away from cancer in 2011 but with Putin up for election in 2012 and gay marriage being both unpopular and illegal in Russia the couple concluded it was best to wait.
The NFL Network is promoting the Thursday night opener as the "Kremlin Kraft Bling Bling Ring Ding." President Obama congratulated the couple and offered to perform the ceremony while Ellen Degeneres said she would give Putin away should his family decline to attend.
The announced nuptials solve a controversy that has raged since 2005 when Bob Kraft was videotaped proposing to Putin in St. Petersburg. The couple devised a cover story for the press that Kraft thought he was simply showing Putin his Super Bowl ring when Putin abruptly pocketed it and walked away behind a wall of KGB bodyguards. The "misunderstanding" allowed the couple to keep their engagement secret and to pass coded love notes to each other through press statements.
Don Arrup
Satire1
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