TWEETS & TAKES

Dale Robertson goes deeper than 140 characters.

My tweet referenced Bill Belichick’s slathering praise upon Trump in a letter Trump shared with his followers on the eve of the election. Obviously, like the rest of us, Belichick must vote his heart and conscience (#democracy). But why would he be so utterly tone-deaf and risk alienating so many of his players who, also obviously, couldn’t possibly share his views on moral grounds? An NFL locker room is a unique and insular village. The “minority” population is comfortably in the majority, but, unlike in the real world, the financial divide doesn’t mirror the racial one. Based on salary, everybody’s pretty much a “one-percenter.” Still, while Trump’s proposed tax policies would favor a DeMarcus Ware and a Derek Wolfe, left, equally, it’s hard to imagine Ware, an African-American, speaking as his Broncos teammate Wolfe, who’s white, did this week. “I already pay half my money to the government,” he said. “I shouldn’t have to give any more . . . I’m not saying Trump is the best, but I vote Republican every year, no matter what. And this really means a lot to me this year because they’re taking 50 percent of our checks. You want to take 60, 65 percent of my check now? I can’t do that. It’s not worth playing the game if I’m going to come out here and take years off my life just so someone else can live.” Just so someone else can live . . . from a guy who gets paid almost $9.2 million annually. (Note that Wolfe got hurt Sunday . . . #karma?). Carolina head coach Ron Rivera, for his part, took the high middle ground: “I know people want me to say things and do things, but I don’t think it’s my spot. I have problems when people look at (sports figures) as the moral and social and legal guide to America. There’s the Bible, or whichever book you believe in, and the Constitution. Those are our moral and social compasses.”