"Before I went down there, my friends said, 'You know, you'll probably get booed,"' she said in a telephone interview. "I was kind of waiting for it.
"It really didn't bother me at all," she added. "People at the game came up to me afterward and said, 'It's not you. It's your jersey."'
It wasn't always that way.
When Adam Vinatieri's last-play field goal gave the Patriots their first championship as huge underdogs to the St. Louis Rams after the 2001 season, red, white and blue confetti -- not boos -- poured down in the Louisiana Superdome.
It came less than five months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
"I remember saying when I hoisted the (championship) trophy, `We are all Patriots and tonight the Patriots are world champions,"' Kraft said. "We were the underdogs. No one expected (it). Now what's happened is, we've had a modicum of success.
"I noticed it with the second title that we went after. Already people had switched and I think people outside of New England want to see different (winners). It's sort of like the Yankees. There was a resentment, but a respect for the Yankees."
The Yankees have declined since their dominance of the late 90s. The Patriots are better than ever, perhaps the best team in NFL history.
"Jealousy and envy comes in the more you win and people say, 'Give someone else a chance and let someone else do it,"' Kraft said. "I understand that."
It's better than the alternative.
Before he bought the team in January 1994, the Patriots had missed the playoffs for the previous seven seasons. In just his third year, they were in the Super Bowl -- losing to Green Bay in the same building where they would win their first title five years later.
At least fans care now, even if they boo.
"I see it as sort of respect in a way," Kraft said. "I think 15 years ago, 18 years ago, someone could have worn our jersey and I just think there would have been no reaction."
Grant plans to wear some Patriots apparel again Sunday, probably a hat. The reaction will be much warmer.
"In a way, the fact that this young lady was booed is a compliment to the New England Patriots fans because we're relevant," Kraft said. "And, we're good."
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