I will assume you understand the difference between literal and figurative so we can move forward with a conversation. That being a valid assumption, there was no need for you to treat my use of the word crime in the way you did.
I, of course, don't know why he never received a single vote. But that he didn't can be used to make my point as much as the one you are trying to make. Maybe there is that much East Coast/legacy bias. Maybe there is that much bias against non-prototypical (read short) QBs. Maybe people saw through his phony front and didn't want to vote for him because of that.
There are plenty of articles out there about this, but I will stick to three quotes from one of those:
Despite being one of the best players in the game, no voter has ever given Russell Wilson an MVP vote. Here's a look at why, and how it could change.
www.espn.com
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2019: Lamar Jackson (50)
2018: Patrick Mahomes (41), Drew Brees (9)
2017: Tom Brady (40), Todd Gurley (8), Carson Wentz (2)
2016: Matt Ryan (25), Tom Brady (10), Ezekiel Elliott (6), Derek Carr (6), Aaron Rodgers (2), Dak Prescott (1)
2015: Cam Newton (48), Carson Palmer (1), Tom Brady (1)
2014: Aaron Rodgers (31), J.J. Watt (13), DeMarco Murray (2), Tony Romo (2), Tom Brady (1), Bobby Wagner (1)
2013: Peyton Manning (49), Tom Brady (1)
2012: Adrian Peterson (30.5), Peyton Manning (19.5)
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I would contend that Wilson was more important to his team than both Aaron Rodgers and Tony Romo were in 2014. Of course, the defense was more important to the 2014 Seahawks than Wilson was. Was Wagner, as an individual, more important than Wilson? I don't think so, but the argument can easily be made. I personally think Kam was the piece uniting the defense in those years.
More importantly, this article looks at the 2017 season:
"Wilson might have been the league's most valuable player in the truest sense in 2017, but not the one that tends to matter to voters. He led the league with 34 touchdown passes and accounted for 37 of the Seahawks' 38 offensive TDs as well as 86% of their scrimmage yards, an NFL record for a single player in the Super Bowl era."
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"Since Wilson entered the league in 2012, only five times has a player received an MVP vote on a team that won fewer than 12 games, illustrating the weight that team success carries in voting. Seattle hasn't topped 11 wins since 2014."
If you combine all of these factors, you start to get a picture of why.