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Player recalls getting Belichick holiday gift: a pink slip

Who needs the Grinch during the holidays when you have Bill Belichick?

Chargers tight end Asante Cleveland says the New England Patriots’ coach called him last year — on Christmas — to tell him he was being cut from the roster to make room for a new player, leading to this early New Year’s resolution.

“Phone off on Christmas,” Cleveland told The San Diego Union-Tribune. “It’s going to be the new rule I go with for the rest of my life. Only bad news can come. Good news will still be there the next day.”

And how did that fateful call end?