I just can’t even imagine the level of anal bleeding from Polian that he would go to these lengths. I don’t even think the biggest Twitter, trolls and patriot haters who live 24 seven to diminish whatever the team does would even consider passing on Belichick or Brady as a first ballot Hall of Famer..
just some loser media people that BB probably made feel foolish during a presser 20 years ago that are flexing the only spec of power they have in their pathetic little world
Polian's now denying that he had anything to do with it, and claiming that he voted for BB, while Wickersham's article still contains the comment from the "anonymous voter". So we've got another Wickersham-involved situation...
I looked at the wording of that, and we may just possibly have a speaking/translating issue there:
Polian added that he could not remember with 100% certainty if he voted for Belichick, saying he was 95% sure he voted for the coach and a player, "most likely" L.C. Greenwood.
I can at least see where that might actually have been about the L.C. Greenwood part of that ("most likely").
I'm sure as heck not a Polian fan, and I'm not trying to defend him over something where I don't think anyone needs defending, since I can see why people would vote to make BB wait when the rules are what they are. I'm just saying that the way it's written does leave a possible explanation.
Are all Patriots players being blackballed from the pro football hall of fame?? Is this why Rodney Harrison, Adam Vinatieri and Vince Wilfork aren’t in?? ???
Bill Belichick Hall of Fame rejection sparks controversy as at least 11 selectors voted against the six-time Super Bowl champion, with committee members calling for transparency.
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My phone rang on Tuesday around mid-afternoon, and it was the familiar voice of an NFL source who started the conversation by bluntly asking, "What happened with Belichick?"
I did not know what the heck he was talking about and told him as much, and that's when he informed me he'd just heard that former New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, who won six Super Bowl championships as a head coach and guided this century's most dominant NFL dynasty, was not voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
I didn't know. And I didn't immediately believe it.
Except it is true. Belichick indeed will not be a first-ballot Hall of Famer and a member of the Hall of Fame Class of 2026.
Bill Belichick Not First Ballot HOFer
And this one hits home because I presented Belichick in the Hall's sub-committee meeting that selected him to advance to the full 50-member selection body. And I also presented Belichick to the full selector's committee in the meeting on Jan. 13.
And throughout the process, I thought it impossible that the coach who won six Lombardi Trophies, more than any other head coach including the man the trophy is named after, would be snubbed as a first-ballot inductee.
But here we are. At least 11 selectors voted against Belichick.
I know the names of some of those because they made their positions clear in the meeting that they outright didn't intend to vote for Belichick or spoke up in the debate, making it obvious they felt uncomfortable doing so.
It's not my place to name the dissenters. But they definitely should speak up.
because they felt it sullied his records.
And I addressed that issue in my presentation.
Post Spygate Belichick Still A HOFer
I told them that even if you believe every victory Belichick’s teams authored up to Sept. 9, 2007 when Spygate was uncovered should be expunged from the coach’s record, he still…
Won 3 Super Bowl championships.
He won 6 conference titles.
He had 14 double-digit-win seasons, including 13 in a row.
Belichick has a 112-81 record for a .580 winning percentage through that first game of 2007. And he has a 190-84 record for a .693 winning percentage afterward.
After Spygate, Belichick won more regular-season games than 22 of the 28 coaches in the Hall of Fame including:
I was delighted to note that chicken shit bill polian, who normally is the cohost with solomon wilcots on "the opening drive"show on the nfl channel on sirius is not on there this morning.