I found BB’s reference to his Dad interesting. I’ve long had a little theory that Steve Belichick and Don Shula had a history with each other, starting with their mutual association with Paul Brown in Cleveland. I figure Steve Belichick, scouting/evaluating genius I imagine him to have been, pegged Shula for a sanctimonious self-aggrandizing POS 60 years ago, and they were the classic “frenemies” thereafter, making BB’s threat to Shula’s records all that more intolerable for Don.
I’ve made my feelings about Shula clear throughout my time posting on this board. F Shula, F his stupid tough guy act, F his Competition Committee BS every year, F his watering down the turf (Note: which happened only a year after the snowplow game; is there any better example of his stupefying level of hypocrisy?), F his stupid oversized glasses, F his dumbass sons getting coaching positions over more qualified people, and F his crappy steakhouses.
I can’t explain it better than that Shula was the first sports figure I can remember just really hating, based mostly on always seeming to get such undeserved adulation, and it seemed to go on forever, too far into my adulthood. Every year I’d be looking forward to the new season for the Pats, and there he was, bending rules in his favor and always the favorite to win it all even when his severe decline as a coach seemed so obvious. When the lowly Pats finally made it to their first Super Bowl, too many outside New England only whined about not getting the Dolphins-Bears rematch. So for whatever reason, there is quite simply no one associated with the NFL I despise more than him, worse than Goodell, Polian, Ray Lewis, Jack Tatum, and smelly old Al Davis combined.
Someone else posted something on the other Shula thread to the effect of hoping he spends eternity waiting outside Heaven’s gate waiting for St. Peter to finish watching clips of 3 Games to Glory 6 before he gets in. I’d be good with that. “Feck” him indeed.
Umm, and of course condolences to his family.
