patriotfan32

Interesting read at ESPN about Belichick.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/etick...t&lid=tab1pos1

mykl

You beat me to the post. Good stuff in there. Glad some of this is finally coming out!

maverick4

"What do I have to sing?" Belichick asked. Ingraham said he'd come up with something. Another pause. "OK," Belichick finally said. "But it'll be my song." He decided on The Clovers' 1959 hit "Love Potion No. 9," rehearsed in a guest house and dabbled with props. Belichick got up on the stage, belted out the 2-minute tune, and swigged from a flask -- non-alcoholic, of course -- for effect. His three children were stunned.

"He brought down the whole house," Ingraham says. "He was so into it. Anyone who thinks this guy is cold, stiff, calculating, I wish they could've seen that performance. It's as human as we can be. He was up there on a stage, entertaining, smiling, not under the influence of anything but ginger ale. It was a fabulous moment that anyone who was there will never forget because this was the guy at his happiest, with his friends and family playing rock 'n' roll."

maverick4

""I only met him for those couple of minutes," Salisbury says on the phone as he waits for a Patriots game to start on TV. "You know what? I just wish I had met him under different circumstances." His brush with Belichick came on a late Saturday afternoon in July 2006. Five-hundred drivers must have blown by the twisted, upside-down BMW on a patch of Route 95 just south of the Rhode Island border, Salisbury says. Not Belichick.

Salisbury and the coach, wearing a Super Bowl XXXVI visor and apparently on his way back from watching his son play lacrosse, were good samaritans.; Together, they helped an injured driver whose car shot across the highway, hit a drainage ditch and flipped on its roof.

And now Belichick was ready to take charge. "Hey, you have a head injury," he said to the driver. "Let's go lie down." Taking the wobbly man by the arm, he laid him in the bed of a truck, and held a beach towel full of ice to the man's bleeding head until rescue workers arrived. "He was very polite," Salisbury says. "He took control, but was still polite about it." Belichick almost escaped without being recognized, but the whole thing became too much for Salisbury, who let out a cry of "Hey! You're Bill Belichick!""

maverick4

Good article but the writer totally missed the Jim Brown story where Belichick works with Jim Brown to help Black prison inmates.

everlong

"Doom" came from LT, the real LT, not Barkley.

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FrontSeven

If Jim Brown respects the man, then chalk up one big respect mark.

You cannot BS Jim Brown. That's what I love about that guy. If he says it, and it has nothing to do with sexual misconduct, hehe, it's probably true.

Jim' big mistake was thinking that he could beat Mohammed Ali and Mohammed's own game. That pipe dream didn't last long.

BelichickFan

Wow nice stuff.

I love the Big Dog story and also the couch story. Imagine if Belichick wrote a 1,000 page biography in 20 years after he's retired . . .

fair catch fryar

Thanks! That was a great read.

pwes

Thanks for the article. It's a great read. It's a shame that good stories like this will never see the light of day besides on a Pats fan board. But crap about how inhumane and 'evil' he is spreads like wildfire.