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On this day 20 years ago, the New England Patriots traded for their new head coach: Bill Belichick

The Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers landed in Miami on Sunday in advance of Super Bowl LIV, led by their coaches, Andy Reid and Kyle Shanahan.

This is the first time since Super Bowl 50 that one of their colleagues, New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, won’t be on the sidelines of the season’s final game. But on this day 20 years ago — Jan. 27, 2000 — Patriots team owner Robert Kraft traded multiple draft picks to the New York Jets in order to hire Belichick as his franchise’s coach.

The move was met with mixed reaction.