Bill Belichick Set to Receive Award From Donald Trump
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Back in 2011, the late Joe Paterno (former Penn. State university head football coach) was nominated to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, but a child sex abuse scandal broke out, Paterno were dismissed from his job and his nomination for the medal was withdrawn.
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@copper said in Bill Belichick Set to Receive Award From Donald Trump:
According to the White house’s official website the award was “established by President John F. Kennedy in 1963, this prestigious award is the Nation’s highest civilian honor. It is awarded by the President of the United States to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to the security or national interests of America, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.”
Interesting. I know it is given by Presdients as they want, but I wonder what "criteria" Bill Belichek meets to receive it?
@taiwan_girl said in Bill Belichick Set to Receive Award From Donald Trump:
@copper said in Bill Belichick Set to Receive Award From Donald Trump:
According to the White house’s official website the award was “established by President John F. Kennedy in 1963, this prestigious award is the Nation’s highest civilian honor. It is awarded by the President of the United States to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to the security or national interests of America, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.”
Interesting. I know it is given by Presdients as they want, but I wonder what "criteria" Bill Belichek meets to receive it?
Eight Super Bowl rings. Four runners-up. 261 regular season victories. 31 play-off wins.
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Perhaps the right thing to do is call in and say:
"My bones are achy, I feel feverish and have a raspy throat. Moreover I can't smell the locker room and all my food tastes like styrofoam packing peanuts. So with all due respect, I think it best that I stay home and take a knee on this one".
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No kidding Jolly
8 Super Bowl rings
I can't think of many things more important to our culture.
Read the criteria - "contributions to ... other significant public or private cultural endeavors."
Also he is a friend of Mr. Trump who used to be in the football business.
He deserves it, no question.
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I am often unable to figure out when you (Copper) are being sarcastic and when you are not. Probably just me.
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I am often unable to figure out when you (Copper) are being sarcastic and when you are not. Probably just me.
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I'm not often very serious, but the selection of Belichick for this award is fine with me.
Look at the list of recipients, it is full of entertainers and sports figures. Mr. Belichick has been a significant sports figure for decades.
I don't see any question.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom_recipients
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That's a very polite 'FU'.
I was only joking
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@jon-nyc said in Bill Belichick Set to Receive Award From Donald Trump:
Copper is usually benignly trolling unless the topic is aviation.
This question has occupied me for years.
I think it's more that Copper mixes it up, possibly for self amusement. He is often subtle. You just don't always know.
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That's a very polite 'FU'.
@doctor-phibes said in Bill Belichick Set to Receive Award From Donald Trump:
That's a very polite 'FU'.
Could be.
@horace said...Or just a very polite "I'm not touching this toxicity with a 10' pole".
I'd say that it's more likely the latter.
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By referring to last week's events he is touching it with a 10 foot pole.
I was only joking
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By referring to last week's events he is touching it with a 10 foot pole.
@doctor-phibes said in Bill Belichick Set to Receive Award From Donald Trump:
By referring to last week's events he is touching it with a 10 foot pole.
It read very much like a guy who made the calculated decision not to associate himself and his family and his organization with the cultural forces that are currently square in the sights of a 50mm cancelation gun. These sorts of pragmatic decisions have been going on since the beginning of Trump's presidency, but the immediacy of the concern skyrocketed in the wake of the Capitol riots. Of course he'll mention the riots, while also paying fealty to the BLM stuff. That's what those pragmatic decisions look like.
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@doctor-phibes said in Bill Belichick Set to Receive Award From Donald Trump:
By referring to last week's events he is touching it with a 10 foot pole.
It read very much like a guy who made the calculated decision not to associate himself and his family and his organization with the cultural forces that are currently square in the sights of a 50mm cancelation gun. These sorts of pragmatic decisions have been going on since the beginning of Trump's presidency, but the immediacy of the concern skyrocketed in the wake of the Capitol riots. Of course he'll mention the riots, while also paying fealty to the BLM stuff. That's what those pragmatic decisions look like.
@horace said in Bill Belichick Set to Receive Award From Donald Trump:
@doctor-phibes said in Bill Belichick Set to Receive Award From Donald Trump:
By referring to last week's events he is touching it with a 10 foot pole.
It read very much like a guy who made the calculated decision not to associate himself and his family and his organization with the wrong cultural forces. These sorts of pragmatic decisions have been going on since the beginning of Trump's presidency, but the immediacy of the concern skyrocketed in the wake of the Capitol riots. Of course he'll mention the riots, while also paying fealty to the BLM stuff. That's what those pragmatic decisions look like.
tl;dr: "He prolly thinks like I do"
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@horace said in Bill Belichick Set to Receive Award From Donald Trump:
@doctor-phibes said in Bill Belichick Set to Receive Award From Donald Trump:
By referring to last week's events he is touching it with a 10 foot pole.
It read very much like a guy who made the calculated decision not to associate himself and his family and his organization with the wrong cultural forces. These sorts of pragmatic decisions have been going on since the beginning of Trump's presidency, but the immediacy of the concern skyrocketed in the wake of the Capitol riots. Of course he'll mention the riots, while also paying fealty to the BLM stuff. That's what those pragmatic decisions look like.
tl;dr: "He prolly thinks like I do"
@jon-nyc said in Bill Belichick Set to Receive Award From Donald Trump:
@horace said in Bill Belichick Set to Receive Award From Donald Trump:
@doctor-phibes said in Bill Belichick Set to Receive Award From Donald Trump:
By referring to last week's events he is touching it with a 10 foot pole.
It read very much like a guy who made the calculated decision not to associate himself and his family and his organization with the wrong cultural forces. These sorts of pragmatic decisions have been going on since the beginning of Trump's presidency, but the immediacy of the concern skyrocketed in the wake of the Capitol riots. Of course he'll mention the riots, while also paying fealty to the BLM stuff. That's what those pragmatic decisions look like.
tl;dr: "He prolly thinks like I do"
He historically does not hate Trump. There's a decent chance I relate to him psychologically more than you or Phibes do. Each of you think it's a FU to Trump because that's what you think like. Oh objective one.
Education is extremely important.
