FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Former Patriots coach Bill Parcells was inducted into the franchise Hall of Fame on Saturday, resolving a long-running feud with owner Robert Kraft that boiled over at their only New England Super Bowl appearance together and festered for three decades.
A two-time Super Bowl champion — neither with New England — and the only coach ever to lead four different teams to the playoffs, Parcells didn’t directly address the way things ended with the Patriots in 1997 except to express some regret.
“We sometimes reflect on things, and you wish you would have done things a little differently,” he said, standing on a packed plaza at a stadium he didn’t stick around to see built, with the Patriots’ six championship trophies behind him — all earned after he left by his proteg