“He’s a good businessman,” they say. “He came from nothing and look at what he made of himself.” People who work hard deserve success.

Sometimes when he wasn’t busy succeeding he would put his hands on his wife and she would be lucky if nothing was broken in the morning; hands so practiced at catching a football can firmly grasp a person’s throat. And once he swung a golf club into his child to quiet her crying, but he has business acumen and a camera-friendly persona that’s good for the team and for national ratings.