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Bill Belichick uses White House trip to make larger points

AP

It’s easy to view Patriots coach Bill Belichick as a football automaton, a man so focused on his job that saying “We’re on to Cincinnati” isn’t a tactic, it’s a way of life.

But in a pair of acts yesterday, Belichick established himself as a man with an emotional side as well.

Via Jeff Howe of the Boston Herald, Belichick made his own subtle personal statement yesterday, wearing an Armenian flag pin on his label.

Today is the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, when 1.5 million of their people were killed by the Ottoman Turks during World War I.