That incident occurred years before Victor Kiam got involved with the Patriots.
The inept Sullivans were long time team owners, and the incident involved an actual convict who was on a work release program that made way for a game winning Patriots Field Goal in what was a scoreless game during a serious snow storm.
Victor Kiam's tenure as an NFL owner was profoundly inept but ultimately benign, as far as we who were/are Patriots fans were concerned.
The James Orthwein ownership period was much more of a tragedy for Patriot fans as the Budweiser family heir came quite close to moving the team to St. Louis, Mo.
That was stifled by the fact that earlier noted Sullivans who were so incapable in business that they actually sold the Patriots playing stadium to the Robert Kraft family, and the Lease contract guarantees were prohibitively expensive.
The end result was that the Patriots were bought by the Kraft's, and the Patriots have since become, arguably, the most successful franchise in NFL history.
We (I am) are talking $$$$ now.
P.S. Zamboni's are used on hockey rinks, and snow plows are used to clear snow.
I got everything wrong on my recovered memory of the incident. Except it was the Patriots. And it was snow. Thanks.