The game plan was a stroke of genius, one of the greatest of all time. It was so perfect, so remarkable, that the entire thing — pages and pages of words and diagrams inside a big blue binder — now rests in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
So imagine what it was like 25 years ago, when the brain behind it — a bold, young defensive coordinator named Bill Belichick — stood in front of the 1990 Giants, just six days before his defense would take on the powerful, unstoppable, Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXV. The wisdom of his words must have been overwhelming.