Bill Belichick, the coach of the New England Patriots, is an interesting man. He was raised in Annapolis, our state capital, where his father was working as assistant football coach at the Naval Academy. Bill was graduated from Annapolis High School and actually began his coaching career in 1975 as an assistant to Baltimore Colts head coach Ted Marchibroda, a job whose duties probably included counting jockstraps and hauling in the Gatorade.
(For young people embarking on a career: you will note that many people who climb to the top of their profession, as Belichick has, almost always start at the bottom of their profession. People who get a leg up by dint of their birthright or whom they know (in all senses of the word) and start past the halfway marker tend not to go much further. Just saying.)
Belichick is a master at football strategy, as his many successes will attest, but Sunday night's game against the Buccaneers, billed as the greatest return of all time what with former Patriot Tom Brady coming back to New England with his new, world championship team, revealed a curious side of his makeup.
During the game, as Cris Collinsworth and Al Michaels burbled on about Brady feeding the entire crowd with five loaves and two fish, Belichick was seen on camera picking his teeth with a pencil.
I mean, really. I guess he had something stringy for dinner. They say he has gone from that 25 bucks a week to $12 million a year now.
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