For as much as fans deride the Pro Bowl, the NFL’s annual all-star game, the exhibition has provided some of the most unique situations in pro football history. Where else would you see, for example, Sean Taylor earn a penalty-free roughing the kicker call, Jeff Saturday switching teams in the middle of the action… or Bill Belichick coaching the New York Jets?
Jets fans are too familiar with Belichick’s infamous single day at the helm at the turn of the century that ended via napkin resignation. Forgotten in the annals of team history is a slightly longer stint in February 1997, when Belichick, having landed the Jets’ defensive coordinator job, served as the interim boss for almost a week while his mentor and longtime collaborator Bill Parcells worked out his departure from New England that allowed him to coach Gang Green.