Bill Belichick’s love of football history is well-known and well documented. With his Patriots heading to Lambeau Field to face the Green Bay Packers on Sunday, it was a perfect time for the New England coach to put on his professor’s cap to talk about one of the NFL’s most storied franchises.
Before his team’s practice on Friday, Belichick gave the Patriots players an abridged history of the early Packers — tales and old footage of Curly Lambeau, Clark Hinkle, Cecil Isbell, Don Hutson, Vince Lombardi and others.
“I had a chance to show the team some of the great Packer players, coaches, Lambeau, so we all know who Lambeau is.