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Belichick grew up idolizing this guy. I can see why:
Joe Bellino, Heisman winner and Patriot, dies at 81
-In the meantime, does anyone else think about BB drafting Edelman back in '09 and saying to him, 'We don't know where we're going to play you, but you are a football player and we'll plug you into several positions' think he was summoning visions of Bellino?
Does this from the above link sound familiar?
"....At Navy, Bellino played three seasons, from 1958 to 1960, and was a running back, receiver, defensive back, kickoff and punt returner, and punter. He won the Heisman Trophy at the end of his senior season, in 1960, when he scored 17 touchdowns and led Navy to the Orange Bowl.
Sports Illustrated described Bellino’s running style as “like a berserk butterfly,” and the sports writer Red Smith wrote that Bellino “wriggles like a brook trout through congested traffic”
“All I know is that I was quick,” Bellino told the Baltimore Sun years later. “I wasn’t big in the shoulders or waist, but my legs were stocky and I was built low to the ground. I could run straight, or sideways, without losing any speed, and I had lateral movement that let me bounce in and out........"
Joe Bellino, Heisman winner and Patriot, dies at 81
-In the meantime, does anyone else think about BB drafting Edelman back in '09 and saying to him, 'We don't know where we're going to play you, but you are a football player and we'll plug you into several positions' think he was summoning visions of Bellino?
Does this from the above link sound familiar?
"....At Navy, Bellino played three seasons, from 1958 to 1960, and was a running back, receiver, defensive back, kickoff and punt returner, and punter. He won the Heisman Trophy at the end of his senior season, in 1960, when he scored 17 touchdowns and led Navy to the Orange Bowl.
Sports Illustrated described Bellino’s running style as “like a berserk butterfly,” and the sports writer Red Smith wrote that Bellino “wriggles like a brook trout through congested traffic”
“All I know is that I was quick,” Bellino told the Baltimore Sun years later. “I wasn’t big in the shoulders or waist, but my legs were stocky and I was built low to the ground. I could run straight, or sideways, without losing any speed, and I had lateral movement that let me bounce in and out........"
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