Patriots fans trying to raise $1M to support rich, cheating NFL team

The Patriots were fined $1 million for their role in DeflateGate and lying to the NFL in its ensuing investigation. Fans are now trying to raise that money on their own to help the team pay the fine.

It’s at this point you either think this is awesome or the dumbest thing ever. Your reaction is entirely based on whether you’re a Patriots fan or not. GoFundMe is a service designed to crowd-fund civic works, help pay people’s medical bills or get families back on their feet after a tragedy. Instead of helping one of those needy causes, 63 people have donated a total of $1,542 to give a billionaire one of his millions back.

Here’s the mission statement from the page:

We obviously know we won’t reach One Million Dollars, however we do believe the fine is bulls**t and want to help anyway we can. So whatever is donated will be donated to the New England Patriots in help with the fine!
As we venture with this, we will do frequent updates to show progression of this! If enough is made to make the travel, we will fly down there (on our own expenses) and deliver a check in person!

Kraft is worth $4.3 billion, according to Forbes. The fine is just over ONE FOUR-THOUSANDTH of his net worth. While those aren’t all liquid funds, the lunacy of donating money to help an NFL owner goes past being a fan.

Patriots fans are upset. It’s easy to see why, but please don’t donate your hard-earned money to a billionaire whose team got caught. Give it to literally any other thing. Here’s a short list of places that could and will use your money better than the Patriots:

United Way

Doctors Without Borders

Unicef

Children’s defense fund

Water.org

The list goes on forever.

People are apparently donating $12 at a time...

While one person decided to give $500.