The snub
So, Belichick, who won eight Super Bowls (six as a head coach) and got to three others, wasn’t voted into the Hall of Fame.
“What does a guy have to do?” he asked, reasonably.
Brady: “Welcome to the world of voting.”
Amen to that. I mean, if Belichick – as qualified a candidate as there is – can’t get elected by so-called experts, what chance does electoral democracy have?
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
I finished Steinbeck’s East of Eden for the group. Taken page by page, it’s quite a good read. Taken all together, it has problems, not least that it’s a replotting and therefore a rebuke of the Cain and Abel story. My objection isn’t so much, How dare Steinbeck?; it’s that the Cain and Abel story really can’t be improved or even riffed on. Change it in any way, and its power is diminished.
“What does a guy have to do?” he asked, reasonably.
Brady: “Welcome to the world of voting.”
Amen to that. I mean, if Belichick – as qualified a candidate as there is – can’t get elected by so-called experts, what chance does electoral democracy have?
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
I finished Steinbeck’s East of Eden for the group. Taken page by page, it’s quite a good read. Taken all together, it has problems, not least that it’s a replotting and therefore a rebuke of the Cain and Abel story. My objection isn’t so much, How dare Steinbeck?; it’s that the Cain and Abel story really can’t be improved or even riffed on. Change it in any way, and its power is diminished.