2026 Pro Football Hall of Fame: Major Exclusions Noted
2026 Hall of Fame inducts Drew Brees, but snubs Bill Belichick & Robert Kraft, sparking debates on politics. Should personal lives affect HoF induction?
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So the Hall of Fame class was spectacular, as I just mentioned.
Drew Brees, Larry Fitzgerald, Luke Kuechly, Adam Vinatieri, and Roger Craig all going into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Two names missing, though.
Of course, that was Belichick and Robert Kraft, the winningest coach and the winningest owner in pro football history.
How are you not first-ballot Hall of Famers?
Again, ideology and politics came into this.
All the things that went on there with Robert Kraft being friends with Trump or with Brady being friends with Trump.
You had the scandals that were also involved during that time in that 20-year run, which was the greatest run in NFL history.
How can you call yourself It's like baseball.
How can baseball call itself a Hall of Fame if you don't have Barry Bonds or Roger Clemens in it?
If you don't have those two names in your Hall of Fame, again, you can't tell the story of baseball without Barry Bonds and without Roger Clemens.
How can you tell the story?
Same thing here with pro football.
Do you know that since Robert Kraft has owned that football team, when he went and brought that team from Victor Kiam, and he has put all these legendary people in that front office, whether it be Bill Parcells, Drew Bledsoe, went to Super Bowl, whether it's Brady and Belichick, went to numerous Super Bowls.
And now we just see what Robert Kraft just did with Drake May and with Mike Vrabel, went to another Super Bowl.
11 Super Bowls since that man has owned the football team.
The, if every other year just about, Robert Kraft and his Patriots have been involved since 1995 with the Super Bowl, and you're not in the Hall of Fame?
And you put Jerry Jones in the Hall of Fame before Robert Kraft?
Last I checked, I know I went to Miami, folks, six championships beats three.
Okay?
I mean, six titles, three titles for Jerry Jones.
And you're talking about an organization that is the best, and it is the gold standard right now on how to win, putting quality people into the front office, putting quali- quality people on the sidelines, drafting, putting great folks in those organizations.
That's why the Patriots win.
And Robert Kraft is the best owner in pro football.
He may not be the best owner in all of sports like Stan Kroenke, but in pro football, there's nobody better than Robert Kraft.
And then you have Belichick.
Hey look, I get it.
People are now taking shots at Belichick because of what's going on at UNC.
How can a guy with 35 victories in the postseason, how can a guy with six Super Bowl titles Let's take, let's not take away the fact he's also arguably the greatest defensive coordinator in the history of the National Football League.
His game plans are synonymous with winning championships with those New York Giant teams.
And by the way, for the record, Parcells has never won a title without Belichick on the sidelines.
They're incanting those game plans.
How are those two guys not in Pro Football's Hall of Fame?
Again, you can't tell the story of pro football without Robert Kraft and without Bill Belichick.
Belichick's the greatest coach in pro football history, and in the Super Bowl era, Robert Kraft is the greatest owner in Super Bowl era.
No question about it
