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The New England Patriots are currently taking part in mandatory minicamp as they gear up for the upcoming 2026 NFL season. The Patriots are looking to bounce back after a strong 2025 season that ended with an ugly loss to the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl.
Currently taking part in the Patriots’ home of Gillette Stadium is the ongoing FIFA World Cup, and now, reports have emerged that Patriots owner Robert Kraft and his group are suing the city of Foxboro, where the stadium is located, over an entertainment license fee pertaining to the venue’s hosting of the World Cup, per Ethan Hurwitz of Sports Illustrated.
“The immediate precipitating basis for this lawsuit is a recent renewal of Gillette Stadium’s entertainment license,” the lawsuit states in part, via The Boston Herald. “This April, Foxborough used what should have been a routine entertainment license renewal as a pretext to charge Plaintiffs approximately $1 million annually in new administrative fees.”
The lawsuit also alleged that hundreds of thousands of dollars of administrative fees had already previously been incorrectly applied to the Patriots.
It also claims that Foxboro “used licensing powers and other administrative means to extract large payments.”
It remains to be seen how the lawsuit will play out, although even if it doesn’t work out in his favor, Kraft probably won’t be strapped for cash anytime soon.
Meanwhile, the Patriots are hoping to continue their ascension this season after a strong 2025 campaign, although things will be a lot tougher this time around, as the team will no longer face a historically easy schedule or have the benefit of being able to “sneak up” on opponents.
The Patriots will get their season underway in September.
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