If New England fans are upset that ex-Patriots coach Bill Belichick was denied a first chance into the Hall of Fame they need to get with their lord.
Belichick was actually in the wrong pew when the balloting began recently for his pro-football hall vote.
The cheating king of the NFL should have been on the competing ballot – the Hall of Shame, what with his “various cheating scandals.”
That’s how Sports Illustrated referred Wednesday to what occurred while Belichick was New England Patriots head coach.
“Various cheating scandals.”
The question is why any self-respecting football fan – including his fawning cheerleaders at The Boston Globe – would support Belichick getting into the venerated Hall of Fame.
The incoming HOF classes are typically announced before each Super Bowl, the 60th of which is February 8.
Until then the names are supposed to be secret.
ESPN has reported that Belichick failed to get enough votes, as did Pats owner Robert Kraft.
Kraft’s reported rejection is harder to justify than Belichick’s since it could be argued he didn’t necessarily know his team was cheating.
Belichick has a much harder case to make to explain his “various cheating scandals.”
Hall of Fame player and coach Tony Dungy, a two-time Super Bowl winner himself, refused to comment Wednesday when reporters asked him whether he voted for Belichick.
“I’m not going to make a comment,” Dungy said.
He then repeated the exact same sentence when he was asked a second time, triggering speculation that he voted against Belichick.
The height of Dungy’s repute is on par with the depth of Belichick’s dishonor.
Speaking of dishonor, The Boston Globe’s Conor Ryan failed to note Belichick’s history as a cheater in the paper’s pre-game coverage of the Hall of Fame controversy.
The legacy liberal a**-kissing paper only talked about Belichick’s legendary winning record, never mentioning his legendary cheating. Not one word.
The Globe is in bed with Belichick. He can do no wrong.
When the Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy last week described Belichick’s HOF snubbing as “ridiculous and preposterous,” a Globe reader wrote, “maybe he shouldn’t have cheated.”
Since the Globe prefers to whitewash Belichick’s record a refresher on his cheating scandals might help:
“Spygate” in 2007 involved the Pats illegal filming of opponents’ signals and “Deflategate” in 2015 was using deliberately under-inflated footballs.
The incidents resulted in record fines, the loss of draft picks, and, thankfully, possibly lasting scrutiny of Billy boy’s reputation as a serial cheater.
The National Football League’s commissioner, Roger Goodell – he who owns a $12.8 million mansion in Scarborough Maine – issued a $500,000 fine against Belichick for “Spygate.”
Nonetheless, the Scarborough beach boy recently said Belichick should be in the hall.
Goodell, along with the Belichick-friendly Boston Globe, apparently has a conveniently-short memory.
