In a stunning ESPN report released on Tuesday, it was revealed that six-time Super Bowl-winning coach Bill Belichick was not voted into the Hall of Fame on first ballot. Belichick did not receive the necessary 40 of 50 votes to make it into the Hall, and will instead have to wait at least a year to be enshrined into Canton.
The report from ESPN’s Seth Wickersham and Don Van Natta Jr. notably stated that according to an anonymous voter, former Bills and Colts general manager and Hall of Fame voter Bill Polian, told some voters that Belichick should wait a year before induction as “penance” for the Spygate cheating scandal.
