04-12-2006, 03:04 PM
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Second Team and Threatening Starter's Job
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Belichick Nation
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Originally Posted by bort
I was there, too. I was kinda bummed about the tech problems with the monitors, though. But he had some very cool stories, and just seems like a bright and humble guy. Just what you'd probably expect.
Hey Bill's Girl - were you the girl that stood up and asked for Beli's feelings about female players? J/K, but I thought that was a strange thing to ask Bill Belichick. I was about to ask him how he felt about his assistants leaving, but some dude beat me to it. Then I wanted to ask about the intentional safety in Denver, but it was over.
One quote that kinda stuck with me - "In New England, one of the things we like to say is 'There's no 'I' in TEAM, but there is an 'I' in WIN - and that 'I' stands for 'Individual Performance'." He called out #37 as the culprit in a long touchdown pass Gay gave up to (Denver ?). Rodney was supposed to blitz, and the review showed he would have gotten in clean and prevented the long gain at least. It was a cool way to illustrate how the unit depends on individual performance to be successful. Gay took the heat, but Rodney admitted the mistake after the game.
It was fun, he talked for about an hour, mentioned Andruzzi (SCSU alumn), Bruschi, Flutie's drop kick, and Bon Jovi (after being asked), among others. Some goof stood up and asked him how much money he would have to raise in order to get Beli to stop wearing the grey hoodie. I swear to god, before the guy even finished his sentence Beli snapped "it's not gonna happen". The place went nuts. I booed the guy, somebody else did, too.
The hall was smaller than I expected, which was great. Me and my friend walked aound the back of the building afterwards to get back to the lot and we ran into Beli walking out of the building and getting into the sweetest stretch limo I have ever seen. I made eye contact with him from about 10 feet away, but he was off like a shot before I could shake his hand and pay my respects. The guy always looks nervous to me. He's a little dude, too, but you'd never know it when he's standing next to Kraft.
Really it was a great time, especially for 15 bucks! Later-
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No, that was not me that asked that question, but that girl was standing about 10 feet behind where our seats were.
His white limo pulled out in front of the bus HC and I were riding in on the way back to the parking lot.
He must have met 100+ people at the reception and he was smiling and laughing. There was nothing nervous about him when I met him.
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