Clothing companies looking for an NFL endorser to move their product should stop throwing cash at traditional choices like star quarterbacks. Instead, they should set their sights on Bill Belichick.It turns out the man known for his lack of fashion sense actually sells. According to Reebok officials, roughly 50 percent of all grey hoodies sold in the NFL have a Patriots logo on it. (No word how many consumers promptly cut off the bottoms of the sleeves.)
A Reebok executive explains to Mike Reiss of the Boston Globe they were actually annoyed when Belichick first wore his famous sweatshirt during games. It turns out Belichick was wearing gear that was meant for players, and the hoodie was not approved coaching gear.
When the company saw sweatshirts flying off the racks, they decided not to fight it.
A similar trend emerged this offseason, when Belichick was photographed locally wearing a blue throwback Boston Patriots sweatshirt. He wasn't supposed to wear it because the item wasn't yet in production. Demand for the item shot through the roof.
The story is reminiscent of Belichick's decision to bring the Patriots out as a team during introductions before Super Bowl XXXVI in New Orleans.
The league told him not to, the Patriots did it anyway, and now it's a time-honored tradition at the big game that represents team play. (And yeah, this story is begging for some angry commenters to mention certain other actual and/or alleged rule breaking activities.)
If Bill Belichick wore a gray thong on the sideline, I would purchase it and wear it proudly. Trust in the all-powerful Hoody.
Gray hoodies are ugly, perfect for obese people that are trying to mask their rolls of fat. Maybe that's why half of the gray hoodies sold are sold to the Pats bandwagon. And let's be serious here, who besides the real, hardcore 8 or 9 Pats fans who know who Steve Grogan is even knew that the Pats were an NFL team 10 years ago?
He cheated and he lost a super bowl. He got to his first super bowl on a call by an official (tuck rule) and a year later that rule was changed.
For those reasons the NE so called dynasty will never be comparable to the teams of the decades.
The 1960's Packers
The 1970's Steelers
the 1980 49ers
The 1990 Cowboys
True Massholes wear hoodies, with a wife beater underneath.
Not just rule breaking, but defiantly breaking rules when specifically told NOT to break those rules, like the letter sent during the offseason about no video taping. So, the key to finding which rule he will be breaking next is to find out what he is being asked NOT to do.
He is a fashion icon, I bought the winter headband he wears.
I'd never buy the red hoodie though, that's the reason we lost the Super Bowl and the perfect season. ;)
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JSpicoli said "True Massholes wear hoodies, with a wife beater underneath."
You may want to get that cannoli out of your arse and realize that there are Patriots' fans all over the world.
S&B666 said "He got to his first super bowl on a call by an official (tuck rule) and a year later that rule was changed."
You may want to stop taking after Al Davis. The rule, in the NFL, was never changed.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/07/08/ufl-changes-overtime-abolishes-tuck-rule/
Not this guy again... He is a stinky, animal bowel movement stain on the white carpet of the NFL. You should not even write about him unless it is to teach young children and/or Cheatriots fans of how not to be a cheating POS. Bill Belicheat is worse than the Black Socks, dog fighting, steroids, sour cream and "global killers asteroids" all rolled into one.....
In addition thanks again Belicheat for making the NFL look like baseball... they have tainted championships and records due to steroids... we have tainted championships and records because of you and your lack of respect for the game, the people playing it, the people watching it and all those who came before and after them.
Hey Silver and Black, how's the commitment to Suckulence doing in Raider-land ? No, the tuck rule has not been changed and in fact the Pats had a loss that year against the Jets due in part to the same rule. As do most teams encounter it once a year or so.
Vox Veritas shouldn't talk, I doubt he even knows who Steve Pelluer is, or Jim Jeffcoat or any of those Cowboy players from their awful 80's era teams.
Fact of the matter is Bill Belichick is the greatest head coach in the history of the game. People can throw out all this crap and petty garbage but aside from Chuck Knoll who coached in a different pre-free agency, pre-salary cap era there isn't a more accomplished head coach in NFL history. Let's also remember Chuck Knoll coached the team that pioneered steroid use. Given it wasn't illegal at the time.
"Dammit! How many times have I told you?" — Jimmy Johnson, throwing a portable television at offensive coordinator Gary Stevens on the flight back from the New England playoff loss in 1997 after watching the video and seeing the Patriots had stolen the Dolphins' calls (from former scouting director Bob Ackles' autobiography, The Water Boy)
Maybe it's because about 50% of casual fans bandwagon with the Patriots?
On top of being the greatest coach in football he is also a fashion icon mind you an unwilling fashion icon but in the hoodie we trust.
How about Belicheck is a tool, regardless of what he has "accomplished". A sleeveless gray hoodie makes him look like a damn hobo.
You guys cheated stop avoiding the facts, you can't sweep it under the rug like the talking heads at ESPN would hope to do. It will not go away.
Just like Mark McGuire and Barry Bonds you guys cheated! Your wins are tainted and should have an asterisk next to them like the home run records in baseball.
Vox makes an excellent point. Outside of the New England region, how many people knew A Pats fan, let alone multiple Pats fans, before the 2000s?
I'm not one to argue with someone pissing in Vox's cheerios, after all he calls the Pats fans bandwagoners, which is ironic when he doesn't even live in the city the CowGirls play in, is not a season ticket holder etc.... Just an internet troll whose act is old lame and tired. Anyway, I think you might get a few arguments from the Bill Walsh, Lombardi, or even the first tour of duty Joe Gibbs fans about the accomplishment's status.And who the hell is Chuck Knoll?......
"Vox Veritas shouldn't talk, I doubt he even knows who Steve Pelluer is, or Jim Jeffcoat or any of those Cowboy players from their awful 80's era teams."
The 80's Cowboys ran off a string of six winning seasons from 1980-1985. The only decades that the Pats have been able to manage more than five in a row or five total in any decade is the 00's. If you think the 80's Cowboys were awful you must think that the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's Pats were horrendous.
@Dolphinatic
Q: How about the spying thing Jimmy (Johnson). You’re a coach does that bother you what Belichick did?
JJ: Oh please. I’ve said it on our show. Eighteen years ago a scout for the Chiefs told me what they did, and he said what you need to do is just take your camera and you go and zoom in on the signal caller and that way you can sync it up. The problem is that if they’re not on the press box side you can’t do it from the press box, you have to do it from the sideline. This was 18 years ago.
Q: You think the NFL came down too hard on them?
JJ: No, no, I said it on the show. He was wrong for doing it for the simple reason that the league knew this was going on not just in New England but around the league. And the league sent out the memorandum to all of the teams saying you cannot do this. And so that’s when Bill Belichick was wrong. After he got the memorandum saying don’t do it any more, he did it.
Q: Did you ever steal signals?
JJ: Oh in a heartbeat, yeah. Yes I did.
Q: Via video, Jimmy? Or no?
JJ: Oh yeah, I did it with video and so did a lot of other teams in the league. Just to make sure that you could study it and take your time, because you’re going to play the other team the second time around. But a lot of coaches did it, this was commonplace.
Q: But did you do it by taping the signal caller?
JJ: Yeah.
Q: Oh you did.
JJ: That’s what I’m saying. I was saying one of Marty Schottenheimer’s scouts, Mark Hatley, who has passed away now, Mark told me that’s how they did it, and Howard Mudd their offensive line coach with Kansas City, who now coaches for Tony Dungy, he was the best in the entire league at stealing signals.
Q: Where’d you put your guy who was videotaping? Where was he?
JJ: My guy was up with my camera crew in the press box. So you’d just put an extra camera up with your camera crew in the press box who zoomed in on the signal callers. That’s the best way to do it, but anyway you can’t always do that because the press box camera crew might be on the same side as the opposing team. If they’re on the same side as the opposing team that’s when you need to do it from the sideline.
http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/sports/patriots/index.php/2008/02/23/jimmy-johnson-thinks-spygate-is-overblown/
Great link, he made the dictionary!
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bill%20Belicheat
The same 5 guys arguing about the same old shit.
Don't forget the Pats are the only dynasty from the era of free agency.
Makes them kinda a cut above the rest.
Tuscani - you should have included, for the sake of the Dolphin's fan, how the Dolphins showed Jimmy J. how they circumvent the QB 15 second rule too.
I guess this proves what a bunch of douchebags live in the Boston area: dweeb guys who, because of their man-crush on the sack-wearing Belicheat, long to copy his "fashion" sense, much in the way of "Queer Eye for the Patriot Guy".
How do I reach deeez keeedz??
I love winning. I know every single game, every single year that we have (not just a legitimate) a great chance of making the playoffs and possibly showing up in the AFC Championship and Super Bowl. My Dad and I started watching games together after playing soccer the year Bledsoe was drafted. Since '01, the Patriots have given me 6 playoff berths in 8 seasons, 5 AFC Championship games in 8 seasons, 4 Super Bowl games in 8 seasons, and 3 Super Bowl wins in 8 seasons. I know we have the greatest team of this decade, and for that we (the fans) probably deserve some crap from fans of other teams. I get that. I will listen to the boos and the fines and the allegations and the suspensions. I don't care. I love winning, and I know as long as Bill is our coach, it will never end.
I don't not why I bother but oh well...shut up everyone, for the love of God get over it. They cheated, got caught, paid the price and they are still winning so obviously that wasn't the sole reason for winning (although I'm sure it didn't hurt). If this was any of your teams that had gotten busted-probably haven't b/c the Pats did and don't fool yourself, your team cheats too-you would be talking like a Raiders' fan saying that the NFL has a conspiracy against you. So please quit ruining the sport and watch the game, man up and deal w/the results.
"Bill Belichick is the greatest head coach in the history of the game."
A great coach, yes, but hardly the best ever. Get a grip, man. You Patsie fans seem to have a very short memory.
@ ncm42
Before the Patriots recent run of success, I knew two Patriot fans. Before Sunday Ticket, the sports bar I watched games at had about three or four regular Patsie fans. Now the band wagon has grown, but it's mainly kids, younger fans, and women who pull for a different team about as often as they switch shoes. I'm some will stick around when the Pats go back to normal, but many will leave. In reality, Patsie fans shouldn't want these people anyway. There's nothing worse than fair weather fans.
Silver&Black666 says: He got to his first super bowl on a call by an official (tuck rule) and a year later that rule was changed.
HILARIOUS... a rightous fan from a team that benefitted from a proven wrong call from Ben Dreith attempts to swoop in and show how the Raiders were wronged by a rule that was later changed...
The only thing Silver&Black has proven is how STUPID Raiders fans are...
You might want to look up the Tuck Rule before you post again missy... then you'd know that the Tuck Rule remains, having been re-approved by the Bill Polian and the NFL competition committee after the Raiders game and for every season since.
Whoops Silver&Black - nice job confirming what an idiot you are!
And for the rest of the idiots who think that spying hasn't gone on since the Bears and Chiefs pioneered the practice in the 1950s, you might want to take a quick skim of this 1969 expose on the practices ... not to mention the Jimmy Johson interview above
http://www.thesportgallery.com/sport-stories/1967aug-nflspy.html
Hey - but don't let any of that stop you... I love it when fans of other teams continue to prove how stupid they are!
"which is ironic when he doesn't even live in the city the CowGirls play in, is not a season ticket holder etc."
Oh, didn't know that those were requirements. Were you born with your head up your ass or did you shoehorn it in later?
The Patriots never claim to be "America's Team". They are New England's team. The sale fo the hoodies goes well in New England because it gets cold here. The jealousy of this football team is pretty funny and Patriots fans are embracing it.
Billly B is also the only head coach to be fined a first round draft pick for cheating.
"But, but, but... other teams cheated too!"
Not on the record. On the record, only one man was punished for videotaping signals: Bill Belichek.
And when he stopped the filming of defensive signals? Got to the superbowl, and lost. If he ever manages to win a Superbowl WITHOUT cheating, then Pats fans might have a legitimate gripe. As it stands now, all of those rings are tainted.
JoeSixPack
(Looke like a can short of a six pack)
Before you go on a elongated tirade about how feeble minded Raider fans are you might want to get your facts straight or your the one who will end up looking like the indigent.
The "tuck rule" spawned a dynasty that night, negating a would-be, game-losing fumble by quarterback Tom Brady and giving the New England Patriots a second chance to craft a dramatic playoff triumph over Allen's Raiders. The win put the Patriots on their way to the first of their three Super Bowl titles in four seasons.
"We've talked about it ever since that New England-Oakland game," said Baltimore Ravens General Manager Ozzie Newsome, a member of the competition committee. "That year, it was probably the biggest topic of the committee and the biggest topic in our presentation to the owners. But it's one thing to think you need to change it, and another thing entirely to change it in a way that it actually can be officiated."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/14/AR2005101401828.html
The rule may not have been " completely changed" but it has looked at addressed or scrutinized every since.
Bottom line its was a fumble then the next year you guys cheated your so called "Dynasty" is built on a lie.
Like Barry Bonds and Mark McGuire at some point you may have an asterisk next to your SB victories.
Stop crying about it Massholes!
Tuscani - Please....JJ never took it to the extent that Belicheat did. As he clearly stated they did it from the press box not the sidelines. Also I would assume 18 yrs ago they didnt have HD cams that can see a black head from a mile away let alone from the press box.
The Cheatriots are what they are.. They were caught, tried and convicted. Just be glad the league saw fit to destroy the tapes (including the walk-thru of the first 20 scripted plays for the Lambs err Rams pre- super bowl, something I seriously doubt JJ had to with the "BOYS" while winning his rings). 18-1 has got to be tough to live down especially when you had the opposing teams play book on your clip board. The cheatriots, Belicheat, and Tuscan-I-love-cheaters can all sit and spin all the like... they are what they are... Nuff said on to the next article.
@Silver&Black666
Cry me a river with the tuck rule. It is over. It is part of history as is the spygate fiasco and 2007 SB. Time to move on. Besides, you guys got to the SB in 2002 and what happened? What makes you think 2001 would have been any different?
# Jackal138 says: July 19, 2009 6:12 PM
>>>Billly B is also the only head coach to be fined a first round draft pick for cheating.
Actually the Dolphins lost a first rounder when they stole Shula when he was under contract to another team....
>>>And when he stopped the filming of defensive signals?
He's gone 28-6 since then with 11 of those wins with a guy that hadn't started since high school........
Grow up and get over it....
"And when he stopped the filming of defensive signals? Got to the superbowl, and lost. If he ever manages to win a Superbowl WITHOUT cheating, then Pats fans might have a legitimate gripe. As it stands now, all of those rings are tainted."
Because apparently getting to a Super Bowl is not an achievement in itself. That has to be the stupidest against the Patriots. The "See!!! Look what happened after they got caught!" argument. Really? I know my 6 year old daughter only watches the Super Bowl but there was an entire regular season after they got caught where the Patriots dominated, and oh yeah, getting to the Super Bowl is still an achievement. Just ask Barry Sanders, Gale Sayers, Dan Fouts, Deacon Jones, Merlin Olsen, or Dick Butkus who never made it. You can make fun of the Pats for blowing it, or choking, but you can't be like "See! Look what happened when they got caught!" yeah, they still went on to win 17 more games after the fact.
Jimmy Johnson admitted to doing the same thing. John Madden going through opponents trash after games, Seattle getting caught piping in fan noise in the older days, teams signing other players only to get their opponents' signs, and steroids on all sorts of teams.
He would look appropriately dressed in black and white stripes.
You know, I wonder how people would feel if their teams got caught cheating? Can you imagine if a story by Yahoo!Sports comes out tomorrow, Steelers were found to have been using video equipment during, or the Cowboys or even G-men? I really would like to see the reactions of such fans, most of them will probably say something along the lines of "they cheated, not me, I wont want NFL football anymore, its an immoral sport" then turn around and pretend it didnt happen lol. Geaux Saints!
All right this argument is ridiculous, it doesn't matter if the "tuck rule" got changed that off season, the next offseason, yesterday or 5 seconds after it happened. At the time that the play happened the rule existed. First of all I'm a Pat's fan and in the football world, Brady fumbled, he even said as much, BUT in the football rules world, the call was correct according to the rules. Raider's fan need to grow up and get over it. If you don't like the rules, you've got 3 choices as I see it: 1)Become the next commish 2)Find a different sport to watch or my personal favorite 3) SHUT UP! and move on.
So much jealousy and bitterness...
HILARIOUS AGAIN... Silver&Black says about the Tuck Rule, trying to save face for fellow Raiders fans and says "well it hasn't been completely changed"
And then goes on to provide a link (that he likely hopes no one will read) that details how it hasn't been changed AT ALL
Oh please, keep going young lady - you're doing a fine job demonstrating the intelligence of the average Raiders fan.
LOL... The Red Hoodie did not help on on Feb 3 2008... Go Giants
Some of you are complete nerds...seriously. Getting so angry because BB was more prepared.
Friggin' Herm Edwards was waving at the video as his guy was on the other end doing the same damn thing...BB just knows what to do with the video more than others.
Get over it...especially Raiders fans with the Tuck Rule. At least that is a rule were as Ben Dreith has a complete phantom call against Hamilton in 76. Remember that? Or are some of you ignorant kids who don't know the game?
But I agree with Raider 7575, bandwagon fans suck and it's a reason I can't get a damn ticket anymore. Where the frig were some of you in 87, 91, etc.?
One thing I can't stand is the wine and cheese crowd that goes to the games now as a social event, but alas that's the price for winning and I'll take it. At least I have an excuse for not sitting in the cold now.
Hey Dolphinitic, You bunch of horrible hankie waving pansies are always bitchin'about something. I always look forward to you annual trip up here in the cold weather. See you sissies in the cold!!!
Gotta love all the haters, especially the Raiders fans who STILL haven't gotten over the tuck game! The Pats keep on winning, so you all find any reason to keep on hating.
Keep hating guys, it only makes them stronger and more eager to win. Some of the things you all say are really funny, and show an incredible lack of football knowledge! Umm, Patriots cheat and lose the superbowl? Umm, there was no cheating that season after the first game. The Pats were the most scrutinized team in the league that season. The tapes could have done ZERO good. They didn't do any good anyways. Look up the stats for yourselves. They certainly weren't used during the game - the stats don't bear it out. Same is true for teams they met twice during the season. Also, the memo? Get a clue. Memos can not alter policy. Florio is a lawyer, I wish he would check the actual policy and see if it stands up to the tests of business policy, cause I don't think it does. Not that it matters, they were the sacrificial lamb for teams breaking the rule at a time when Goodell was looking to make some examples.
You all whine, but you would take BB and his hoodie on your team in a heartbeat! BB is worse than dogfighting? Steroids? WHat planet do you live on?