00:00Belichick fell short of the 40 out of 50 votes needed for induction
00:03to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility.
00:06I told you.
00:08I'm going to give him.
00:08I told you so.
00:10I told you.
00:11I predicted this.
00:13I didn't like my chances when he made this final round,
00:16but I thought, I felt, I told you,
00:20they're holding something against Kraft.
00:22They have to hold it against Bill.
00:24Whatever they're holding against Kraft,
00:26if they were holding Spygate against Kraft and Deflategate against Kraft
00:29and all the nonsense against Kraft,
00:32they can't just let Bill in on the first turn.
00:35They got to bust his balls, too.
00:37And they're doing it.
00:38No way.
00:39Really?
00:40Yeah, 40 out of 50.
00:41It fell short of 40 out of the 50 votes needed, is what he writes.
00:45So that's a leak, though.
00:46We're not supposed to know that until next week.
00:49Right.
00:49Yeah.
00:50Isn't it the night before the Super Bowl?
00:51No, it's exactly right.
00:52We typically don't know that until next week.
00:53How do they know?
00:54Did he pull all 50 guys?
00:56So does this mean Kraft cut in?
00:58I don't know.
00:58I mean, this is just, this just broke now again.
01:00This is, he is calling Seth Rickersham and Don Vandado.
01:03Yeah.
01:04Yeah.
01:04I'm putting pieces together that aren't necessarily in the story.
01:07Because the theory was, remember that whole thing about if Bill gets in,
01:11then Kraft's chances dip dramatically.
01:14Well.
01:14Because only two people can get in from that group.
01:16That's right.
01:17And that all of a sudden that makes the odds much more difficult for Kraft.
01:20What if they boned them both?
01:22What if it was a double boning?
01:23Like, I mean, talk about, and I know the vote's already in, but like Kraft sort of reestablishing
01:29himself with this trip back to the Super Bowl.
01:33Definitely he is.
01:34Like, it's a joke the guy's not in.
01:36Is there any chance they played hanky-panky with this and they're leaking some of it?
01:39And I say hanky-panky because now that the Patriots are in the Super Bowl, they, you know,
01:44they're going to put Kraft in?
01:47In other words, I know in theory that it was already voted for, right?
01:50There is a story now that's just posted.
01:53So just reading here quickly.
01:54Multiple sources told ESPN that Spygate and Deflategate, the twin cheating scandals,
01:59during the Patriots championship run came up in deliberations among voters.
02:03A voter who spoke in condition of anonymity said that Bill Pollian, an ardent Kraft supporter
02:07and former GM of the Bills and Colts, told some voters he believed Belichick should, quote,
02:11wait a year before induction as penance for Spygate.
02:15I said that, quote, unquote.
02:17I'm sorry.
02:18I don't get many right.
02:19This one I did.
02:20I told you they might do this.
02:22I had a suspicion.
02:23But when he made the final, I thought they were going to bone him in the committee,
02:27which is where Kraft has been annually boned.
02:30That's the boneyard.
02:32A veteran Hall of Fame voter told ESPN today, quote,
02:35the only explanation for the outcome was the cheating stuff.
02:38It really bothered some of the guys.
02:40If you're going to use it as, and I'm not sure that's why they kept Kraft out,
02:43but I think it's the excuse they used.
02:45Yeah.
02:45I think the Kraft thing has been personality driven.
02:48I think there's guys that just don't like him or think he's phony or needy or whatever.
02:53And they use the cheating scandals as the excuse to keep Kraft out.
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