THE HERD - Hour 1 - Bill Belichick not being a first ballot Hall of Famer, what goes on in the voting room, Seth Wickersham
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.1 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Colin Cowherd discusses the shocking report legendary head coach Bill Belichick was NOT voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame his first year eligible for induction. Colin explains why the result is not all that surprise when you look back on Belichick’s career with proper context.
Reporter Seth Wickersham joins the show to tell Colin what happened inside the voting room and why Belichick expected to get in as a first-ballot selection.
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| 0:30.4 | Ah, here we go. |
| 0:32.7 | It is a Wednesday. |
| 0:35.0 | People are fuming and outraged and enraged it's the herd in Chicago |
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| 0:59.0 | Bill Belichick, in his first year of eligibility, did not get voted into the NFL Hall of Fame. |
| 1:10.0 | Now, let's start with this. He will. He's a Hall of |
| 1:13.1 | Famer he'll get in. And we don't know that he didn't get 39 of the 50 votes. I'm sure |
| 1:17.5 | he got a majority. So let's just start talking about is it possible, possible that what I'm about to explain to you went into consideration. |
| 1:30.3 | Let me start with this. |
| 1:32.3 | The winning as coach of all time, Don Shula, got to a Super Bowl with Dan Marino, |
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