Jimmy Johnson not going to Hall of Fame ceremony after Bill Belichick snub: 'To hell with it'

Legendary coach Jimmy Johnson won’t go to the Pro Football Hall of Fame ceremony this summer after the Bill Belichick snub. He figured the six-time Super Bowl winning head coach was a shoe-in for a first ballot induction.

Not so fast my friend. So Canton, Ohio should not expect the former Cowboys and Miami Hurricanes championship winning coach to be in attendance.

Johnson shared a lot of similar points others have this week amid the news of Belichick not getting the required number of votes. If Belichick gets in next year, maybe we’ll see Johnson return.

“I saw him at the national championship game between Miami and Indiana,” Johnson said on The Pat McAfee Show. “And by the way, congratulations to Indiana, and Miami had a great year as well. Bill walked away and I was talking to him and he said ‘Hey, hope to see you at the Hall this year.’ Anyway, I thought it was going to be an automatic, so I chartered a jet. I was going to go up there. To hell with it. I’m not going this year.”

Across his career as a head coach with the Patriots and assistant coach with the New York Giants, Belichick won eight Super Bowls. He became regarded as one of the top coaches of all-time, and 2026 marked his first year on the Hall of Fame ballot.

Belichick was informed of the Hall of Fame’s decision last Friday and was “puzzled” and “disappointed” after failing to get 80% of the votes, ESPN reported. The full list of inductees is set to be announced next week ahead of Super Bowl LX.

On the whole, during his legendary coaching career, Belichick had a 302-165 overall record to go with a 31-13 mark in the postseason. His 302 regular-season wins put him third all-time behind George Halas (318) and Don Shula (328) on the all-time winningest coaches list. Counting the postseason, Belichick sits just behind Shula’s 347 total victories on the all-time list.