NFL News Belichick not voted into the HOF

Mike the Brit said:

MY FANTASY

A delegation from the old days (think Coach Vrabel, Edelman, Light, Ernie, Scott Pioli, Dante, maybe Big Bill) goes to Belichick and Kraft and says: "Guys, enough is enough. If there's one thing that this shows, it's that it's time to bury the hatchet. There are too many haters outside New England without Patriots Nation fighting itself!"

Coach Belichick comes to Super Bowl practice, speaks to the team, sits in the Owners Box, takes applause from the fans ...

Can you imagine?

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lancerman said:

I doubt he does. The HOF matters to him and way too many guys he actually respects are part of it. He doesn't want to be on the outside looking in on it with the guys like Taylor, Brown, all his players he loves, guys like Johnson etc.

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Actual Pats Fan said:

They say what people across the nation want to hear and choose to believe, to make themselves feel better(Sound familiar?.......)

There has always been league resentment and jealousy of Bob Kraft, for his swooping in, saving the Patriots, and being successful right away.

Bill Belichick was supremely unpopular with the media since his stint in Cleveland.

Tom Brady was belittled and dismissed since college.

All these three facts, along with the most successful modern sports dynasty they created, though they contributed, amazingly, are not the genesis of the greatest unwarranted imposition of an unfair competitive disadvantage in team sports history.

THAT would be local Boston media's negatively biased denigration maligning its pro football team admittedly owned by cheap people but nevertheless successful and genuinely lovable with heroic, blameless and high performance high character players. The false laughingstock narrative originating in 1970 with the consummation of the merger, was picked up nationally and has continued to grow to this day, 56 years later.

Fran Tarkenton in 1974 or O.J. Simpson in 1976 getting tossed out of games after starting fights because the Patriots had the temerity to be competitive on the field.

The Patriots being a national joke because their coach was planning his exit while his team was headed for the playoffs - which only 5 teams in each conference qualified for at that time.

The 'hapless' Patriots of 1981. 1981...the sole losing season for the Patriots in a stretch of 13 years.

The Patriots weren't 'supposed' to go to the Super Bowl in 1985. The nation didn't 'want' it.

"The Patriots embarrassed the league."-Paul Tagliabue, 1990. Not themselves, but the league. And not the Giants or Cowboys, who actually abused female reporters trying to do their jobs and not ogling half naked black players.

The Patriots returning to the Super Bowl in 1996 was not the story, but their coach (again) plotting his exit during the playoffs.

The false cheating allegations and criticism and denigration of the Patriots' success hit a crescendo the very instant the Tuck Rule was called.

And the commissionership of Dodger Fraudell six years later is all it took to corroborate and validate all of the crying and nonsensical false cheating allegations increasingly blathered those six years.

And it never stopped, the league spending $millions to again oppress the Patriots who did nothing, as opposed to next to nothing seven years prior.

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Steve102 said:

He also knows that Walsh, Lombardi , Gibbs and the others weren't first ballot. My guess is it bothers him less than it bothers us.

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FreeTedWilliams said:

Ohh I think it bothers him, BB been kicked around a lot this last few years and not being a first ballot HOFer is a kick to the nuts for him.

I bet he is the one that leaked that he didn’t get in. He is pissed and hopefully he takes it out on the NFL and begins to divulge a bunch of its dirty little secrets.

Yeah, the NFL told us coaches to not divulge players with concussions.

Yeah, the BFL told us to hold token black hiring interviews.

Yeah, nobody believed in this social justice crap.

He could do a lot of damage in the week heading into the Superbowl, I hope he goes scorched earth in the NFL!

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h0c2000 said:

w/o Starr as starting QB, Vince is 19-11-2 for a win/loss percentage of 0.633.

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upstater1 said:

This explains everything.

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lancerman said:

I doubt he does. The HOF matters to him and way too many guys he actually respects are part of it. He doesn't want to be on the outside looking in on it with the guys like Taylor, Brown, all his players he loves, guys like Johnson etc.

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The Gr8est said:

IMO Spygate was overblown, and Deflategate was invented out of whole cloth, because the rest of the league could not beat the Pats on the field and were tired of their dominance. I’m thinking this was driven by the other owners.

The fact that BB was curmudgeonly just made it so much easier for people to accept the narrative.

People who claim the Pats cheated and put asterisks at the end of Pats, are showing how butt hurt the are that their teams failed and need an excuse to make themselves feel better.

In truth there SHOULD be an asterisk at the end of the Pats name. If would signify that the Pats are the only team so dominant that the rest of the league cheated to bring them back to the pack.

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Steve102 said:

I don't see him doing that. Too much love for the game. He knows all the dirty **** the league has done, but he keeps it to himself.

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mike_usagisan said:

I can see him making a small snide comment or something when he does get inducted.

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Steve102 said:

I don't see him doing that. Too much love for the game. He knows all the dirty **** the league has done, but he keeps it to himself.

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Hugepatsfan said:

Seeing all the reaction the last few days, in some ways this was maybe a blessing for him. For the last few year now it's been so in style to discredit him and disrespect his status as a true legend of the game. The last few days have been a massive outpouring of giving him his flowers. TBH, if he got voted in ho-hum first ballot it probably would have produced more idiotic think-piece pushback stories continuing to disrespect his legacy and standing in the game. Instead, with the snub, it's totally reframed all the discussion on him to defending his legacy instead.

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Steve102 said:

I don't see him doing that. Too much love for the game. He knows all the dirty **** the league has done, but he keeps it to himself.

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