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The thread title is wrong and misleading.
Nobody anywhere ever said BB wasn't an HOF coach, just that he has to pay the price for being a lifelong cheater

BB cheating was institutional, serial and knew no bounds. He was caught multiple times, fined and lost draft picks - and that's just the tip of the cheating scandals.

It all started with Ernie Adams, BB's semi-secret advisor who came from Wall Street. There is where Ernie learned that cheating is actually a good business decision because they could ( and did) make hundreds of millions through illegal insider trading.

But the SEC was so impotent in both their policing of the rules and their penalties for getting caught, that it didn't act as a deterrent.

Quite the opposite. These Wall St guys knew they could cheat, make $200 million in profit while only facing a slap on the wrist and a paltry fine.
The fines were just the cost of doing business

Ernie took this knowledge of cheating to the NFL, where the League and Roger were just like the impotent SEC. You could cheat with impunity because the fines/penalties paled in comparison to the glory and $$ of winning a Title.

And Ernie and BB were right. And when the league finally investigated Spygate, they were blown away at the systematic way they went about it.

The league knew that if the Truth ever came to light, it would rock the NFL to its foundations. So the league was actually an accomplice in the cover up.

BB was a master student of the game, a brilliant NFL mind and he amassed the greatest library on NFL history anywhere. He has many great qualities.

But the institutionalized cheating is impossible to ignore and he did benefit massively from that cheating. And he kept cheating even after getting caught multiple times.

I cannot and will not ever respect him and every Title he earned is tainted. Fuck him.

And for the record, the Packers under Lombardi won 5 Titles in 7 years, it took this cheating bastard 16 years to notch his 5th league championship

BB is a convicted cheater and making him wait for HOF enshrinement is a small victory against an asshole who besmirched the NFL and took a steaming shit on fair & competitive play.