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Even while watching hockey, Robert Kraft couldn’t stop thinking about football.

The day before his New England Patriots hosted the AFC Championship Game last month, Kraft attended a New York Rangers-Boston Bruins matchup at the TD Garden. Kraft was so struck by the experience — especially the crowd interaction when there were breaks in the action — that he spoke to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell about trying to adopt some NHL trappings for his league.

“It’s a lot of fun being there,” Kraft recently told FOXSports.com. “I think we have some rules in the NFL we’ve got to change so we can make (the game) more inviting and appealing.”

The NFL is working on it.

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