OK, I'll give you everything but that first point. Since when does more proof of bad character mean nothing? Tha man is proven scum and when all he gets is a slap on the wrist, where's the incentive for him to even stop cheating if theres
any truth at all to MANY peoples suspicions that Gillette stadium was BUILT with some of Belicheats specifications in mind. For all I know the league may have inspected to their satisfaction, and perhaps he's so scared he doesn't dare. Perhaps not, and I certainly doubt it, as quickly as the league swpt it all under the rug. I would think that more people would be calling for them to do so. I would think that the fans in New England, if they are that attatched to Belicheat, would at very least, just so everyone would have more faith in the team beying beyond reproach in the future.
Do people change? Sure they do, but not overnight, and when they have a long record of bad character not at all ususally. Did he even have the character to even humbly apologize to us, the fans, the media, even the local New England fans? Not that I know of, but, to the commish, the man with power over his fate? Sure he did, and the speaks even more about his character or lack thereof. Let's just see how their away record is at the end of the season, before we even give this creep the benefit of the doubt. Nothing he's ever done has earned him anything more. Quite a bit less in my opinion.
I cannot believe people's lack of characted nationwide if you want the truth. I have spent a lot of time on Football boards, something I rarely ever have done incidentally, asking the question of fans, what would you feel like if it were your coach? What would you want to see done in that hypothetical, if your team was the dynasty?
A VERY FEW other teams fans, and this includes even Seahawks fans have agreed with me, that first they'd like to see their coach have the character to step down, and barring that, see their organization show the class of showing him the door. All over the NFL, people think this is a very serious matter, and a lot of them are calling for the coach's head, but when they put themselves in the hypothetical place of the Patriots fans, they don't seem to think they'd be quite so mad. That really saddens me, because I'd be seriously questioning even being a fan of the Seahawks if the situation went down the same as it has in New England. I'd be much angrier, if it was Holmgren, not less so. I, very sincerely, wouldn't want the questions, the doubts, or that kind of taint, to remain with my team for even a minute longer! It really surprises me, and angers me, that I am in the minority in this way, I really believed better of other fans.
I haven't found even a single Patriots fan that even will concede that Belichick has even done anything
seriously wrong, wrong, sure, but they seem to think it's pretty trivial. They as a group seem to think everybody does it, which makes it
almost ok to begin with, and their poor misguided coach just got caught and now he's getting picked on unfairly. I see no indication that any of them even think he is anything less than a fine upstanding man who has made one mistake, and can't we just all forgive him because he's just suffered so much!
I suspect (and really hope) that the Patriot fans with enough character to actually be hurt, angry, disgusted, and to really feel cheated by Belicheat, are just staying away from discussions because they just realize that there is no defending what he did. They are expressing their outrage by doing something constructive, like a snail mail letter writing campaign asking for a new coach. Unfortunately, the way, but from what I have seen in asking other teams fans to put themselves in their shoes, I imagine those fans are a very small minority.
Personally I am really let down, by everyone involved, but I thank god that my team has a coach who's character has never even been called into question, because if that wasn't so, I think I might just be so discusted as to really be turned off by football at all for possibly a good while.
