Bill Belichick got excluded from the Pro Football Hall of Fame on his first ballot.

It didn’t happen randomly.

Belichick won six Super Bowls as New England’s coach, but got caught cheating twice.

The Hall’s voting process is flawed when it lumps in Belichick with old-timey candidates like L.C. Greenwood. (Greenwood was a four-time Super Bowl champion with the Steelers of the ’70s. He died in 2013. So there’s no hurry to induct him.)

Was there a campaign against Belichick? What goes around often comes around.

But that’s nitpicking. Belichick has more Super Bowl wins than any coach. He’s got to be a first-ballot Hall-of-Famer.

But if you’re mad that Belichick got excluded, you must also feel that Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and the big-stats steroid crew should be in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Cheating is cheating. Apples to apples. (Belichick got caught, BTW. Bonds and Clemens never tested positive. David Ortiz did, but is in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Everybody loves a clown.)

Halls of fame have become a joke. More a source of controversy than a source of honor. The former is good for my profession. But the latter was the intent.

To restore what halls of fame are supposed to be, each should do a reset.

The Pro Football Hall of Fame has a president/CEO. The Baseball Hall of Fame has a board.

The former’s president/CEO should overrule the voters and declare that Belichick is in, right now. Erase the commotion. Correct a clear and obvious error.

The latter’s board should overrule the voters and immediately put in Bonds, Clemens, Pete Rose, Shoeless Joe Jackson and all those omitted who are obviously worthy in terms of performance. Put whatever each did wrong on his plaque, if it makes you tumescent.

Make the Baseball Hall of Fame a pantheon of the very best, not a reflection of the moral compass peddled by a bunch of cranky, old baseball writers. (I’d like to get a look at their browsing history.)

Don’t tell me about the Baseball Hall of Fame’s “ethics code.” It’s 2026. We ran out of ethics long ago. Let’s crunch numbers, not invoke Plato.

Voters are drunk with power. They indulge agendas.

Bonds got snubbed because voters don’t like him. PED use gave them an excuse.

Voters who left Belichick off their ballots made themselves the story. Wrote columns about it. Couldn’t wait to.

Too many hall of fame inductions are about who got slighted, not who gets in. It robs from the celebration.

We so often shriek that something is broken. OK, so fix it.

This is broken. Fix it.