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It may be time for Bill to bring out The Shackleton. If you’re not familiar, Sir Ernest Shackleton was an English explorer who sailed to the South Pole in 1915 with hopes of crossing Antarctica by foot.

It didn’t go so well. Boat got wedged in the ice. Fellas were stranded a few hundred miles from land. Five months of misery wandering across ice floes followed.

BUT ERNEST BROUGHT HIS MEN THROUGH IT!!!! Books were written. Movies were made. And back in the summer of 2001, when the IMAX film “Shackleton’s Antarctic Adventure” was playing in Providence, Belichick had his team take a training camp trip from Bryant College for a night at the movies.