Kraft's Super Bowl Ring Said to Be a Gift to Putin A spokesman for Russia's president, Vladimir V. Putin, said the New England Patriots" owner, Robert Kraft, meant for a diamond-encrusted Super Bowl ring to be a gift to Putin when they met eight years ago. "I was standing right behind the president, and I saw how he was given the ring," the spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters in London, where Putin met British Prime Minister David Cameron. According to The New York Post, Kraft told the audience at a recent awards ceremony that he had intended to show Putin the ring, but Putin had pocketed it.