Bill Belichick
William Stephen Belichick is the head coach of the New England Patriots of the National Football League. He exercises extensive authority over the Patriots’ football operations, effectively making him the team’s general manager as well. Belichick began his coaching career in 1975 and became the defensive coordinator for New York Giants head coach Bill Parcells by 1985. He is the NFL’s longest-tenured active head coach, as well as the first all-time in playoff coaching wins with 31 and third in regular season coaching wins in the NFL with 261. He has been placed in the Pro Football Hall of Fame of 1995, 1995, 1998, and 2000.
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William Stephen Belichick is the head coach of the New England Patriots of the National Football League. He exercises extensive authority over the Patriots’ football operations, effectively making him the team’s general manager as well. Belichick began his coaching career in 1975 and became the defensive coordinator for New York Giants head coach Bill Parcells by 1985. He is the NFL’s longest-tenured active head coach, as well as the first all-time in playoff coaching wins with 31 and third in regular season coaching wins in the NFL with 261. In total Belichick has won eight Super Bowl titles and finished as runner-up four times from his combined time as an assistant and head coach. He was named the AP NFL Coach of the Year for the 2003, 2007, and 2010 seasons. He has been placed in the Pro Football Hall of Fame of 1995, 1995, 1998, and 2000. He won a record six Super Bowls as the headCoach of the Patriots, and two more as the New York Giant defensive coordinator. Belichick is of Croatian ancestry, and his paternal grandparents, Ivan Biličić and Marija Barković, emigrated from the Croatian village of Draganić, Karlovac, in 1897, settling in Monessen, Pennsylvania. His father was an assistant football coach at the United States Naval Academy. Bill reportedly learned to break down game films at a young age by watching his father and the Navy staff do their jobs. Belichick has cited his father as one of his most important football mentors, and Belichick often studied football with him.
He graduated from Annapolis High School in 1970 with classmate Sally Brice-O’Hara, with the latter being his favorite sport. He enrolled at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, for a postgraduate year with the intention of improving his grades and test scores to be admitted into a quality college. In 1976, he joined the Detroit Lions as their assistant special teams coach before adding tight ends and wide receivers to his coaching duties in 1977. In 1978, he was dismissed along with head coach Tommy Hudspeth and the rest of the coaching staff on January 9, 1978. He spent the 1978 season with the Denver Broncos as a defensive assistant and defensive assistant. In 1979, he began a 12-year stint with theNew York Giants alongside head coach Ray Perkins. In 1985 he was named in charge of the Giants’ special teams, and in 1985 he replaced Bill Perkins, who had replaced him in 1983. During his tenure in Cleveland, he compiled a 36–44 record leading the team to the playoffs in 1986 and 1990, leading the Giants to the Super Bowl XX. In 1991, he left to become the head coaches of the Cleveland Browns. He remained in Cleveland for five seasons but was fired following the team’s 1995 season. He then rejoined Parcells, first in New England, where the team lost Super Bowl XXXI, and later with the New New York Jets. In 2000, he resigned after only one day on the job to accept the head coaching job for the Patriots.
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