FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Bill Parcells was inducted into the New England Patriots Hall of Fame on Saturday, saying the franchise will always have a place in his heart before referencing his acrimonious departure in 1997.
"We sometimes reflect on things, and you wish you would have done things a little differently," Parcells, 84, said on a sun-splashed day in which hundreds gathered for a ceremony that also included the induction of three-time Super Bowl champion Julian Edelman. "I come back here and I see this, I wish I would have done things a little differently."
Parcells coached the Patriots from 1993 to 1996, bringing credibility and championship pedigree to an organization that had been one of the NFL's worst at the time.
Robert Kraft, a longtime Patriots fan who was a season-ticket