At 69, William Stephen Belichick is widely viewed as one of the greatest coaches in the history of professional sports. Think Red Auerbach, Vince Lombardi, Bill Walsh, Phil Jackson, Mike Krzyzewski, or our own Don Shula, before the game eventually began to pass him by in the mid-1980s.
Despite his unquestioned status as a mortal enemy of Dolphin fans the world over, I’ve long held the ‘Hoodie Boy’ in high regard, because he, as the New York Giants’ defensive coordinator, helped pulled off what to this day remains one of the greatest upsets in sports history, when in January 1991, he held a vaunted Buffalo Bills K-Gun offense, that had scored 95 points in two playoff games, to just 19 points, in Super Bowl XXV.