Against all the odds and villainous portrayals, contrary to bleak expectations and gloomy projections… Bill Belichick once dressed as a pirate to a Randy Moss-led roller-skating Halloween party with the New England Patriots.
Not the odds-and-expectations-clobbering Super Bowl tale you were thinking of, huh? Not the evil genius masterplan you were anticipating, huh?
With storied Belichickian philosophies come trademark Jekyll and Hyde-isms to the greatest head coach in NFL history, from whom rare jesting and joshing became a loveable contrast to the typical motionless exterior, icy media dealings, mumbling remarks and relentless scent for destruction on which his Patriots empire was built.