Kendall Jenner surprised NFL fans when she FaceTimed Tom Brady during a recent appearance on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’ ahead of the Super Bowl, to which Patriots owner Robert Kraft has now responded
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft has responded to Kendall Jenner revealing she will place money on the team to win Super Bowl LV
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft said to Kendall Jenner, “Let’s do it together,” after the supermodel revealed she had placed money on the AFC champions to reign victorious at Super Bowl LV.
In an unlikely sequence of events, Jenner surprised NFL fans this week when she FaceTimed Tom Brady during an appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” asking the former quarterback to provide his analysis of the Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks ahead of next month’s blockbuster event.
It comes just days after Brady was accused of being ‘unhappy’ watching Drake Maye lead New England to the Super Bowl, despite the NFL legend publicly congratulating his former team following their AFC Championship game victory over the Denver Broncos.
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On Wednesday, however, Brady did his best to inform Jenner and show host Jimmy Fallon about the Patriots and Seahawks ahead of their February 8 showdown at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, leading the former to decide that she’ll go with the “underdog” Pats.
The reason Jenner has such a particular interest in the game is that she is placing a bet with Fanatics Sportsbook on who she thinks will win, with all winnings going to charity.
The amazing gesture has quickly come to Kraft’s attention, prompting the billionaire businessman to issue a message to the “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” star in a video posted to the Patriots X account on Thursday, captioned “Hey @KendallJenner, we got this.”
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“Kendall, I just heard you put your money on us to win this big game. And you know what? I don’t believe that thing about the Kardashian curse,” Kraft said. “We’ve been underdogs plenty of times, and we’ve done OK. Let’s do it together.”
The ‘Kardashian Curse’ Kraft mentioned is the family’s alleged dating curse, which Jenner jokes about in a new Super Bowl 2026 commercial with Fanatics Sportsbook, where she says any basketball player who dates her “hits a rough patch.”
In NFL terms, it would mean the Patriots are destined to lose now that Jenner has backed them to win, but Kraft is confident that won’t be the case, which is why he said he “doesn’t believe” in the Kardashian Curse.
Patriots fans, however, are still likely to keep everything crossed heading into the game, just in case Jenner’s backing could come back to haunt the franchise when it takes the field in just over a week’s time.
Kendall Jenner surprised fans by FaceTiming Tom Brady on Wednesday’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Bizarrely, on the same show, Brady’s former Patriot teammate Rob Gronkowski also predicted New England to win, yet fans are also sweating over his decision, given he has developed a jinx when predicting Super Bowl winners in recent years.
Before the former tight end gave his answer, Fallon had reminded him of his previous failures, having failed to get any of his previous three predictions right when appearing on The Tonight Show.
Fallon provided clips from each of those three predictions in 2023, 2024, and 2025, when Gronkowski said the Philadelphia Eagles would beat the Kansas City Chiefs, the San Francisco 49ers would beat the Chiefs, and the Chiefs would beat the Eagles.
On all three occasions, he was wrong. At Super Bowl LVII, the Chiefs beat the Eagles, at Super Bowl LVIII, the Chiefs beat the 49ers, and last year at Super Bowl LIX, the Eagles beat the Chiefs.