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William Stephen Belichick (/ˈbɛlɪtʃɪk/ or (/ˈbɛlɪtʃɛk/; born April 16, 1952) is an American football coach who serves as the head coach of the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). His extensive authority over the Patriots' football operations effectively makes him the general manager of the team as well.[1] He holds numerous coaching records, including winning a record six Super Bowls as the head coach of the New England Patriots, and two more as defensive coordinator for the New York Giants. [2] He is widely considered to be one of the greatest coaches in NFL history by current and former players, his peers, and the press.[3]
Belichick began his coaching career in 1975 and became the defensive coordinator for New York Giants head coach Bill Parcells by 1985. Parcells and Belichick won two Super Bowls together before Belichick left to become the head coach of the Cleveland Browns in 1991. 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 York Jets.
After being named head coach of the Jets, Belichick resigned after only one day on the job to accept the head coaching job for the New England Patriots on January 27, 2000. Since then, he has led the Patriots to 16 AFC East division titles, 13 appearances in the AFC Championship Game, and nine Super Bowl appearances, with a record six wins. Belichick has won eight Super Bowl titles in total from his combined time as an assistant and head coach.
Belichick 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.[4] He is one of only three head coaches who have won six NFL titles.[5] He was named the AP NFL Coach of the Year for the 2003, 2007, and 2010 seasons.
Belichick began his coaching career in 1975 and became the defensive coordinator for New York Giants head coach Bill Parcells by 1985. Parcells and Belichick won two Super Bowls together before Belichick left to become the head coach of the Cleveland Browns in 1991. 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 York Jets.
After being named head coach of the Jets, Belichick resigned after only one day on the job to accept the head coaching job for the New England Patriots on January 27, 2000. Since then, he has led the Patriots to 16 AFC East division titles, 13 appearances in the AFC Championship Game, and nine Super Bowl appearances, with a record six wins. Belichick has won eight Super Bowl titles in total from his combined time as an assistant and head coach.
Belichick 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.[4] He is one of only three head coaches who have won six NFL titles.[5] He was named the AP NFL Coach of the Year for the 2003, 2007, and 2010 seasons.
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In the 2009 season, which marked Belichick's 35th consecutive year in the NFL and the Patriots' 50th Anniversary season, NFL Films documented sides of the th...
Thank you, my friend Maj Marty Hogan for making us aware that April 16 is the anniversary of the birth of American football coach William Stephen Belichick who serves as the head coach of the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL).
AFL - Bill Belichick (full)
"In the 2009 season, which marked Belichick's 35th consecutive year in the NFL and the Patriots' 50th Anniversary season, NFL Films documented sides of the three-time Super Bowl-winning head coach few have ever seen. While his unmatched record as a head coach makes him no stranger to the NFL record books, Belichick made history in the production of A Football Life by becoming the only coach to ever be wired for sound for an entire NFL season."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akF9pJlphKs
1. Background from biography.com/athlete/bill-belichick
"Bill Belichick is head coach of the NFL's New England Patriots and widely considered one of the best coaches in football history.
Who Is Bill Belichick?
American football head coach Bill Belichick was born in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1952. The son of a longtime college coach, Belichick got his own start in coaching in 1975 when he took a job with the Baltimore Colts. By the 1980s, he was the defensive coordinator for the New York Giants and praised as one of the brightest minds in the game. After a rocky stint as head coach of the Cleveland Browns in the early 1990s, the New England Patriots hired Belichick in 2000. He's since guided the franchise to six Super Bowl victories, the most by a head coach in NFL history.
Early Career
Widely considered one of the best coaches in NFL history, Bill Belichick was born William Stephen Belichick on April 16, 1952, in Nashville, Tennessee. The only child of Steve and Jeannette Belichick, Bill showed an early aptitude for the game of football, a trait he no doubt inherited from his father, a longtime assistant coach and college football scout.
Belichick studied how his father dissected game film and drew up plays, and often accompanied him to coaches meetings. By his early teens, Belichick was a regular part of the team's practices, and was well-versed in the game's schemes and formations.
After graduating from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, Belichick enrolled at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, where he played lacrosse and finished with an undergraduate degree in economics.
Following his graduation from Wesleyan in 1975, Belichick took a job with the Baltimore Colts for $25 a week, serving as a sort of gopher for head coach Ted Marchibroda. From there, Belichick hooked on with a number of NFL teams, including the Detroit Lions and Denver Broncos, as he attempted to climb the league's coaching ladder.
In 1979, Belichick was hired by the New York Giants to coach the team's special teams unit. Belichick ended up staying with the club for 12 seasons, eventually taking over as defensive coordinator under head coach Bill Parcells, who steered the franchise to a pair of Super Bowl victories.
Browns Tenure and Rejoining Parcells
After the Giants' second Super Bowl win in 1991, Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell hired Belichick as his new head coach. Belichick's time in Cleveland proved rocky. Demanding of his players and hardly a friend to the media, Belichick had difficulty winning over the team's fans and its mercurial owner. Following the 1995 season and Modell's announcement that he was moving the franchise to Baltimore, Belichick was fired.
He quickly found work with his old mentor, Bill Parcells, who at the time was head coach of the New England Patriots. The pair worked in New England for the 1996 season—that same year, the Patriots made it to the Super Bowl, but lost to the Green Bay Packers. The following year, Belichick followed Parcells to the New York Jets, where Parcells had been hired as head coach.
Patriots Head Coach
In early 2000, Belichick got another shot to direct a franchise, when New England Patriots owner, Robert Kraft, named him head coach. While old Browns fans snickered at New England's decision to hire him, Belichick quickly demonstrated why Kraft had wanted him. Following a difficult 2000 season, the coach rode the young arm of quarterback Tom Brady, who'd stepped in early in the year for an injured Drew Bledsoe, and guided the Patriots in 2001 to a Super Bowl XXXVI victory against the heavily favored St. Louis Rams.
Belichick and the Patriots repeated the run two years later, winning Super Bowl XXXVIII. The team successfully defended its title the following season, winning Super Bowl XXXIX against Terrell Owens and the Philadelphia Eagles.
Belichick has been named "Coach of the Year" three times, in 2003, 2007 and 2010. In 2007 and 2011, he again steered the New England Patriots to the Super Bowl, where both times they lost to Eli Manning and the New York Giants. During the 2007 season, he became the first head coach to ever preside over a 16-0 regular season team.
The 2014 season brought more impressive accomplishments for Belichick, who tied NFL coaching records by leading the franchise to its sixth Super Bowl appearance and its fourth championship.
'Spygate' and 'Deflategate'
Not everything about Belichick's coaching career has sparkled. In 2007, it came to light that the Patriots had, over several years, secretly videotaped opposing coaches in order to learn their play-calling signals. The incident, which came to be known as "Spygate," resulted in Belichick being fined $500,000 by the league. The Patriots were fined an additional $250,000 and lost a first-round pick in the 2008 NFL draft.
More accusations of foul play came when it was revealed that New England had used underinflated footballs in the 2014 AFC title game, an episode that garnered the nickname "Deflategate," though Belichick denied any wrongdoing.
Breaking Records
In 2016, Belichick led the Patriots to the AFC Championship, but the team lost to the Denver Broncos. The Patriots returned to Super Bowl LI in 2017, facing off against the Atlanta Falcons. In a thrilling game, the first to go into overtime in NFL history, quarterback Tom Brady led the Patriots to 34-28 victory, making Belichick the first head coach to win five Super Bowl rings and play in seven championships.
After suffering a loss to the Philadelphia Eagles in the big game the following year, Belichick again had his team back in the Super Bowl in 2019. Whipping up an airtight defensive scheme, his team put the clamps on the high-scoring Los Angeles Rams for a 13-3 triumph, giving Belichick a remarkable sixth Super Bowl win as a head coach."
2. Croatian family history background from croatianhistory.net/etf/bilic.html
"Once and for all New England Patriots Head coach Bill Belichick is of Croatian heritage. His grandfather Ivan Belicic came to United States in 1897 from Karlovac region and his grandmother Mary Barkovic came in 1898 also from near Karlovac. They lived in Monessen, PA. Bill’s father Stephen Nickolas Belichick (Bilicic) was born in 1919 and family moved to Struthers, suburb of Youngstown,
Ohio in 1924. Grandfather Ivan never went to school but spoke 6 languages. He worked at Pittsburgh Steel and was butcher and a gardener on a side. When he went for his citizenship papers immigration official suggested that he change his last name to White. He refused.
Ivan Belicic and Mary Barkovic had 1 daughter and 4 boys. Stephen “Steve” was son # 3 (father of coach Bill). He graduated Struthers High School in 1937 and Case Western Reserve University in 1941. He played professional football for Detroit Lions with Andy Runovich from Indiana University. Steve married Jeannette Munn (Bill’s mother) who was a Spanish and French professor at Hiram College where Steve was a head football, head basketball, head track, head golf and physical education coach. He belongs to CFU and his nieces visited Karlovac and relatives in villages of Draganic, Lazanic and Barkovic. They associated with other Croats in Pennsylvania and Ohio and relatives go by names of Yurcich, Buyan/Boyan and Brigich.
Stephen “Steve” Belichick and Jeannette Munn had one child (son) Bill who was born in Nashville in 1952 when his father Steve was coaching at Vanderbilt University. William Stephen Belichick “Bill” went on to become 3-time Super Bowl coach and the rest is history."
FYI LTC Stephen C. LTC (Join to see) Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Lt Col Charlie Brown Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj William W. "Bill" Price Maj Marty Hogan SCPO Morris Ramsey SFC William Farrell SGT Mark Halmrast Sgt Randy Wilber Sgt John H. SGT Gregory Lawritson CPL Dave Hoover SPC Margaret Higgins SSgt Brian Brakke 1stSgt Eugene Harless SSG William Jones SSG Diane R.
AFL - Bill Belichick (full)
"In the 2009 season, which marked Belichick's 35th consecutive year in the NFL and the Patriots' 50th Anniversary season, NFL Films documented sides of the three-time Super Bowl-winning head coach few have ever seen. While his unmatched record as a head coach makes him no stranger to the NFL record books, Belichick made history in the production of A Football Life by becoming the only coach to ever be wired for sound for an entire NFL season."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akF9pJlphKs
1. Background from biography.com/athlete/bill-belichick
"Bill Belichick is head coach of the NFL's New England Patriots and widely considered one of the best coaches in football history.
Who Is Bill Belichick?
American football head coach Bill Belichick was born in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1952. The son of a longtime college coach, Belichick got his own start in coaching in 1975 when he took a job with the Baltimore Colts. By the 1980s, he was the defensive coordinator for the New York Giants and praised as one of the brightest minds in the game. After a rocky stint as head coach of the Cleveland Browns in the early 1990s, the New England Patriots hired Belichick in 2000. He's since guided the franchise to six Super Bowl victories, the most by a head coach in NFL history.
Early Career
Widely considered one of the best coaches in NFL history, Bill Belichick was born William Stephen Belichick on April 16, 1952, in Nashville, Tennessee. The only child of Steve and Jeannette Belichick, Bill showed an early aptitude for the game of football, a trait he no doubt inherited from his father, a longtime assistant coach and college football scout.
Belichick studied how his father dissected game film and drew up plays, and often accompanied him to coaches meetings. By his early teens, Belichick was a regular part of the team's practices, and was well-versed in the game's schemes and formations.
After graduating from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, Belichick enrolled at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, where he played lacrosse and finished with an undergraduate degree in economics.
Following his graduation from Wesleyan in 1975, Belichick took a job with the Baltimore Colts for $25 a week, serving as a sort of gopher for head coach Ted Marchibroda. From there, Belichick hooked on with a number of NFL teams, including the Detroit Lions and Denver Broncos, as he attempted to climb the league's coaching ladder.
In 1979, Belichick was hired by the New York Giants to coach the team's special teams unit. Belichick ended up staying with the club for 12 seasons, eventually taking over as defensive coordinator under head coach Bill Parcells, who steered the franchise to a pair of Super Bowl victories.
Browns Tenure and Rejoining Parcells
After the Giants' second Super Bowl win in 1991, Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell hired Belichick as his new head coach. Belichick's time in Cleveland proved rocky. Demanding of his players and hardly a friend to the media, Belichick had difficulty winning over the team's fans and its mercurial owner. Following the 1995 season and Modell's announcement that he was moving the franchise to Baltimore, Belichick was fired.
He quickly found work with his old mentor, Bill Parcells, who at the time was head coach of the New England Patriots. The pair worked in New England for the 1996 season—that same year, the Patriots made it to the Super Bowl, but lost to the Green Bay Packers. The following year, Belichick followed Parcells to the New York Jets, where Parcells had been hired as head coach.
Patriots Head Coach
In early 2000, Belichick got another shot to direct a franchise, when New England Patriots owner, Robert Kraft, named him head coach. While old Browns fans snickered at New England's decision to hire him, Belichick quickly demonstrated why Kraft had wanted him. Following a difficult 2000 season, the coach rode the young arm of quarterback Tom Brady, who'd stepped in early in the year for an injured Drew Bledsoe, and guided the Patriots in 2001 to a Super Bowl XXXVI victory against the heavily favored St. Louis Rams.
Belichick and the Patriots repeated the run two years later, winning Super Bowl XXXVIII. The team successfully defended its title the following season, winning Super Bowl XXXIX against Terrell Owens and the Philadelphia Eagles.
Belichick has been named "Coach of the Year" three times, in 2003, 2007 and 2010. In 2007 and 2011, he again steered the New England Patriots to the Super Bowl, where both times they lost to Eli Manning and the New York Giants. During the 2007 season, he became the first head coach to ever preside over a 16-0 regular season team.
The 2014 season brought more impressive accomplishments for Belichick, who tied NFL coaching records by leading the franchise to its sixth Super Bowl appearance and its fourth championship.
'Spygate' and 'Deflategate'
Not everything about Belichick's coaching career has sparkled. In 2007, it came to light that the Patriots had, over several years, secretly videotaped opposing coaches in order to learn their play-calling signals. The incident, which came to be known as "Spygate," resulted in Belichick being fined $500,000 by the league. The Patriots were fined an additional $250,000 and lost a first-round pick in the 2008 NFL draft.
More accusations of foul play came when it was revealed that New England had used underinflated footballs in the 2014 AFC title game, an episode that garnered the nickname "Deflategate," though Belichick denied any wrongdoing.
Breaking Records
In 2016, Belichick led the Patriots to the AFC Championship, but the team lost to the Denver Broncos. The Patriots returned to Super Bowl LI in 2017, facing off against the Atlanta Falcons. In a thrilling game, the first to go into overtime in NFL history, quarterback Tom Brady led the Patriots to 34-28 victory, making Belichick the first head coach to win five Super Bowl rings and play in seven championships.
After suffering a loss to the Philadelphia Eagles in the big game the following year, Belichick again had his team back in the Super Bowl in 2019. Whipping up an airtight defensive scheme, his team put the clamps on the high-scoring Los Angeles Rams for a 13-3 triumph, giving Belichick a remarkable sixth Super Bowl win as a head coach."
2. Croatian family history background from croatianhistory.net/etf/bilic.html
"Once and for all New England Patriots Head coach Bill Belichick is of Croatian heritage. His grandfather Ivan Belicic came to United States in 1897 from Karlovac region and his grandmother Mary Barkovic came in 1898 also from near Karlovac. They lived in Monessen, PA. Bill’s father Stephen Nickolas Belichick (Bilicic) was born in 1919 and family moved to Struthers, suburb of Youngstown,
Ohio in 1924. Grandfather Ivan never went to school but spoke 6 languages. He worked at Pittsburgh Steel and was butcher and a gardener on a side. When he went for his citizenship papers immigration official suggested that he change his last name to White. He refused.
Ivan Belicic and Mary Barkovic had 1 daughter and 4 boys. Stephen “Steve” was son # 3 (father of coach Bill). He graduated Struthers High School in 1937 and Case Western Reserve University in 1941. He played professional football for Detroit Lions with Andy Runovich from Indiana University. Steve married Jeannette Munn (Bill’s mother) who was a Spanish and French professor at Hiram College where Steve was a head football, head basketball, head track, head golf and physical education coach. He belongs to CFU and his nieces visited Karlovac and relatives in villages of Draganic, Lazanic and Barkovic. They associated with other Croats in Pennsylvania and Ohio and relatives go by names of Yurcich, Buyan/Boyan and Brigich.
Stephen “Steve” Belichick and Jeannette Munn had one child (son) Bill who was born in Nashville in 1952 when his father Steve was coaching at Vanderbilt University. William Stephen Belichick “Bill” went on to become 3-time Super Bowl coach and the rest is history."
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