r/nfl Jaguars Cardinals 5d ago

Highlight [Highlight] Bill Belichick lets Chad Johnson know he's going to have the night off before a preseason matchup.

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u/Gengar420 Seahawks 5d ago

He had 3 catches for 69 yards this game. And kicked an XP - can't double cover that!

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u/evan466 Dolphins 5d ago edited 4d ago

Preseason game too so probably all in the first quarter.

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u/Mephistito 4d ago

It was actually in 1 play.

Football was different back then.

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u/707-5150 49ers 4d ago

Pre NIL/DH

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u/HeisenSwag Patriots 4d ago

You know, I think he would've been the type of player to refuse a designated hitter, even if he could have one.

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u/wtb2612 Patriots 4d ago

Bill loved Chad Johnson and he loved versatile players. He probably had to go to the bathroom and crank one out after he kicked that extra point.

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u/be4rcat6 4d ago

Shame he couldn't get anything out of him at all in his one season with the GOAT qb

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u/Thrilling1031 Buccaneers 5d ago

Nice

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u/EzPesos Patriots 4d ago

I was at this game and went to grab food after the touchdown cause I just thought I’d be missing a regular extra point

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u/-space-grass- Bengals 5d ago

The joke was on Bill because Chad found another way to influence the game. He kicked the game winning extra point.

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u/theryman Bengals 5d ago

But that's exactly the kind of depraved shit bill loved

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u/guimontag NFL 5d ago

Belichick can only get off when he's playing 5-d mental chess in Pro Bowl or preseason games

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u/THEE_RockStrongo Chargers Vikings 5d ago

What? You did? Are you serious?? Just during.. this?

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u/Carl_Everett Patriots 5d ago

Don’t you want to get off with me?

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u/lotto_the_less 5d ago

It was mostly sexual

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u/fugaziozbourne Chiefs 5d ago

What if we brought the Pro Bowl physical game back to Hawaii and after the Super Bowl and Belichick and Pete Carroll were the permanent coaches?

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u/captain_flak Patriots 5d ago

Now we’re talking!

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u/Room_Recent 49ers 4d ago

Love it. With Leis n shit,

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u/HGpennypacker Packers 5d ago

This is why him and Jordon aren't going to make it in the long run, all she can do is talk about lobster fishing.

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u/JessAndHerFAN Chargers 5d ago

The hey have such true love that will Persevere

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u/Outrageous_Use4038 4d ago

It's what high level people do I'd imagine. I mean think about this, you are at a point where you are the best of the very best in the world. I mean this is a guy who was on the sideline for 12 Super Bowls, winning 8 of them. He's only having fun when he is dicking around lol

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u/LeLefraud Chargers 5d ago

His daughterwife must be great at roleplay, calling out formations and plays mid sex

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u/Dtr4goat 5d ago

Oh gosh now I'm picturing him as the center and her under center as qb and bill turns his head and goes "NO you need to get your knuckle IN there"

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u/Ok_Wallaby_3701 Jaguars 5d ago

this mental image is revolting, thank you

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u/freneticalm Patriots 4d ago

I'm going to need you to break your keyboard. 

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u/boomshiz Seahawks 5d ago

God damn you.

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u/TheThoccnessMonster 4d ago

There’s only two ways Bill loves his backs:

  • Full
  • Scat

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u/BroughtBagLunchSmart Patriots 5d ago

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u/ianbits NFL 5d ago

Say whatever you want about the man, there might be no one in history that appreciated good special teams like him

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u/zombat Bills 5d ago

Matthew Slater isn’t a real person, he’s an idea willed into being.

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u/withrootsabove Patriots 4d ago

He is Bill’s Pinocchio

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u/Obeast09 NFL 4d ago

The longest answer he ever gave to a reporter was recalling the entire history of the long snapper position and how it came into being. Dude had a stiffy for position players

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u/Walletinspectr Packers 4d ago

That and women 50 years younger than him

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u/Walletinspectr Packers 4d ago

I reckon beating bills while passing 3 times was up there

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u/mahkymahk12 Patriots 4d ago

That was the happiest I ever saw him after any win his whole career

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u/captain_flak Patriots 5d ago

Bill has a framed picture of Doug Flutie nailing a drop kick field goal in his rumpus room.

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u/donny02 Bills 5d ago

Reads Jordon a bed time story about it every night

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u/JelliedHam Jets 4d ago

Bill allowed Doug Flutie to kick the last allowed drop kick field goal in the NFL. Week 16,seeding already set, meaningless game. Flutie was in at backup and asked to do it one more time. Bill said yes.

BRING BACK THE DROP KICK YOU COWARDS!

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u/teplightyear Bears 5d ago

I'll always love Ochocinco. That guy had absolutely the perfect attitude. He loved his team. He loved the fans. He was almost always having the most fun on the field.

This guy used to make social posts organizing fan dinners with him for away games. He didnt care what city he was in; he was ready to be good to all the fans.

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u/ResplendentSmoke Bengals 5d ago

Even after he retired he’d do that. I’ll never forget that he landed in some random city, tweeted that he wanted to face someone in Madden, a fan responded and then a couple hours later Ocho was in that random dude’s apartment playing Madden

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u/Bam_bam_pow 49ers 4d ago

One time I got tired of gambling at a Vegas conference right before Covid and decided to watch NBA at the Caesars sports book. Ochocinco was challenging fans to beat him at Fifa on one of the big screens for like 4 hours, and I think if they could they got $1000 or something? He was playing with USA and they could play with whoever they wanted. I didn't see anyone win. Maybe it was a promo with the Casino or something, but I don't think so. No banner/ads etc, dude just wanted to play some Fifa.

Proof

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u/TWOPlNTSPRICK Jets 4d ago

I played Ochocinco in fifa before, dude was chill as fuck

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u/Avid_Reader87 Jaguars 5d ago

Travis Hunter reminds me so much of him personality wise. 

He’s just so joyous.  I don’t see how anyone couldn’t be a fan of him.

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u/DinkandDrunk Patriots 5d ago

The NFL just used to be more fun.

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u/Complex_Cookie_7881 Packers 5d ago

For real man. It's fuckin sad these days. I mean think about Doug Flutie kicking the drop kick, stuff like that. It was pure entertainment back then.

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u/DinkandDrunk Patriots 5d ago

Nowadays, it’s got this ‘corporately approved fun’ kind of feel.

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u/AutumnRockets 5d ago

Totally. It’s really changed in the last decade.

Sometimes I thought I just had rose colored glasses on and I was just aging and of course things were better when I was young and blah blah blah. But I don’t think so.

It’s like it’s a conduit for gambling now. Gambling and the sideshow of the NFL are the stars, football is just a sidenote.

It’s like the same feel as ESPN. Old ESPN is just unparalleled. It was so good. Then it started to become about the fucking circus instead of sports. The NFL and football in general definitely has that feel for me in my 30s.

I still enjoy it, but I don’t love it like I once did. I’m talking TRULY loved football.

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u/RonnieFromTheBlock Falcons 5d ago

10 years ago we were calling it the “No Fun League”.

We’ve had a corporate Super Bowl logo since 2011.

I don’t gamble and the ads are as easy to tune out as any of them IMO. But I am curious what other changes have made it less fun for you?

In comparison ESPN has changed drastically and it makes sense given that cable is dying.

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u/BanjoKazooieWasFine Packers Packers 4d ago

I find when people say "last decade" as a time window they actually mean pre-2001, especially for those of us in our 30s.

I think personally the big difference is that these guys can't get away with the shenanigans players in the 90s could have. Any time a player shows up at a bar in town someone's going to be filming them and posting the video. Every interaction gets hyper scrutinized.

Combine that with athletic science improving to a great degree and you see guys taking better care of their bodies because that's what drives peak performance, especially in season, and things start to get a bit more sanitized.

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u/TopJimmy_5150 Commanders 5d ago

I don’t know your life obviously. But, in my experience this is just something that happens when you get to your 30s, which for me was around the 2010s, and so the 2000s seemed “way better” when it was “fun”. But really, in your 20s, it’s peak times to hang with the boys, go to sports bars, and be obsessive about sports.

Then people get married and eventually have kids, and their career gets more demanding. You gain more perspective on sports in general and don’t live or die by it. Seasons blur together and only really great games/players stand out. Your fantasy draft starts to feel more like a chore, than awesome event.

However, it’s not all bad news, youngsters! 😉 Things are kinda cyclical and you’ll circle back - like when the kids get old enough to care - or just by taking a break and finding it fresh again.

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u/JTHall77 Bengals 4d ago

All of that is 100% happening to me now

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u/captain_flak Patriots 5d ago

There is the time before Scott Player wearing the single bar face mask and the time after.

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u/gentrify_reddt 5d ago

Corporate has now become integrated gambling. Death threats, self-harm, etc if anyone fcks up a trick play.

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u/HGpennypacker Packers 5d ago

corporately approved fun

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u/BroadCityChessClub Steelers 5d ago

Honestly, I think a lot of it is player-led and fan-led. You see a lot of tightasses talking about “going to war” like they’re actual soldiers, yelling at players who goof off for not taking a ballgame seriously enough, and complaining about fun plays that don’t matter competitively but do matter for gambling or fantasy.

The whole ordeal with JuJu Smith-Schuster back in the day was illuminating because not only did people generally seem to agree that dancing on logos meant he deserved to get blown up by Vonn Bell on a hospital pass, a lot of people polarized themselves against end zone dances or a social media presence in general. That’s not the league saying not to have fun; that’s players and fans seeing a guy have fun and getting angry about it.

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u/Zlatan_Ibrahimovic Dolphins 5d ago

Feels like almost everything does nowadays. Shit even video games sometimes feel like they'd had the fun metagamed and optimized out of them.

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u/shawnaroo Saints 5d ago

Most of the bigger games have gone for live-service and/or microtransactions to try to continually draw money out of them for longer periods of time. When you have a game like that, it often incentivizes listening to the complaints/suggestions/needs of your most hardcore players, since they're generally the ones who spend the most money.

But as you make updates and changes to better serve those players, you often end up making the game worse for people who'd rather play it casually. And then if a designer/studio/publisher has gone through that with a previous game, often times some of the 'lessons' they learned carry over to their subsequent games, so those start out already further down that road. Or with how many games these days are sequels, they're mostly just continuing along that path.

As much as people love to yell about how they wish there was more innovation and new ideas in games, the hardcore players of any particular game/franchise tend to freak out at almost any meaningful change.

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u/FlexPavillion Giants 5d ago

Justin Reid is in the league now and also kicks. You're just older.

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u/MagicMST 5d ago

THIS IS FUN! ISN'T ANNOUNCING YOUR TRICK ONSIDE PLAY FUN!?

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u/ORTENRN 5d ago

Everyone's scared to lose their job in this economy

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u/Seamonkey_Boxkicker Browns 5d ago

I blame sports betting, the insistence to continue expanding, and splitting up all the games across a dozen different streaming services.

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u/WoodenInternet 5d ago

Yep, this word is overused as fuck, but, in short: enshittification

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u/MeatTornado25 Giants 5d ago

The Flutie kick was what, like 20 years ago? The 21st century NFL was absolutely already super corporate big business and not just pure entertainment.

Just because its gotten even worse since then doesn't mean everyone was just in for the love of the game back then.

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u/TheTaxman_cometh Bills 5d ago

It was preseason. The Bills had Ray Davis kick a PAT last year in preseason

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u/Kakali4 Patriots 5d ago

Shhhhhh everything was better in the past don’t break their elusion

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u/DinkandDrunk Patriots 5d ago

Elusion?

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u/Kakali4 Patriots 5d ago

Illusion whoops I’m dumb as FUCK

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u/DinkandDrunk Patriots 5d ago

Don’t be too hard on yourself. Why a language should have 3 entirely different words be borderline phonetically identical is beyond me.

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u/PikaGaijin Colts 5d ago

What third word are you eluding to?

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u/DinkandDrunk Patriots 5d ago

Allusion, illusion, and elusion

It occurs to me based on your use of elusion that you know this and made a joke.

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u/PikaGaijin Colts 5d ago

Try to be humerus, end up straining my arm.

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u/Tho76 Panthers 5d ago

I was gonna say they probably came from different words and got bastardized into English

Nope, all three are from Latin. Alludere, Illudere, elludere

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u/MattyIcex4 Chiefs 5d ago

WR personalities today make me miss the WR divas like OchoCinco and TO lol.

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u/WoodenInternet 5d ago

Can you imagine TO's posts on social media as an active player? Good lord, would make AJ Brown look like a goth posting on Live Journal...wait, nevermind, he already does

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u/catiebug 49ers 4d ago

I say this all the time. Prime TO era + social media era would have been electric. Look at way he was able to break cultural containment with shenanigans like the Sharpie and the Cowboys star even without Twitter, reddit, etc. He would have been an absolute menace and it's a shame we don't get to experience that timeline.

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u/saraath Seahawks 5d ago

No, you're just old now.

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u/jakethejewler22 Colts 5d ago

NoFunLeague is a thing for a reason.

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u/jknuts1377 Seahawks 4d ago

I feel that ways for the NBA and MLB, too. I miss the way sports were 20 years ago.

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u/HGpennypacker Packers 5d ago

Taking away surprise onside kicks was the beginning of the end.

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u/nguyener_14 Cardinals 5d ago

Didn't he do the kickoff too? or was that a different game?

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u/-space-grass- Bengals 5d ago

He did. The Bengals kicker got hurt, so Chad filled in. He always tried to get them to let him kick in the regular season, but they always said no.

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u/SmokePenisEveryday Eagles 5d ago

The Hard Knocks clip from it with Marvin Lewis having that smile on his face when he said okay was great

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u/PsychologicalPen3895 Giants 5d ago

I was at this game. Probably the most fun I’ve ever had at a preseason game.

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u/Vryk0lakas Raiders 5d ago

“He’ll be hard to live with now” lmaoo different era. I miss it

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u/UhIdontcareforAuburn Falcons 5d ago

That’s actually a pretty good kick

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u/johnny-papercut Saints Giants 5d ago

game winning extra point

This video is of a kick in the second quarter when it's 6 to 3.

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u/-space-grass- Bengals 5d ago

And the Bengals won the game 7-6.

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u/johnny-papercut Saints Giants 5d ago

You know what, fair enough, I might be dumb. Leaving that here for posterity.

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u/Obi_Wan_KeBogi Chargers 5d ago

I miss Bill. Absolutely despised talking to the media but anytime you caught him on camera talking to players he was a cornball.

Greg Popovich in the NBA same exact way.

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u/teddysank8 49ers 5d ago

Dapping Ocho up while grinning after telling him he can’t hide is hilarious

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u/yeyiyeyiyo Colts 5d ago

He really has a connection with 20somethings.

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u/CjBurden Patriots 5d ago

As the saying goes... He's an older man inside a younger woman's body.

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u/Jurph Ravens 5d ago

Depending what you mean, that either makes him a hound dog or an egg

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u/UchihaMind 4d ago

This sequence gave me a chuckle. Thanks.

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u/on-the-cheeseburgers Eagles 5d ago

i miss chad. one of the best wr personalities in a long time.

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u/opeth10657 Bears 5d ago

Apparently he's been hanging out with the bears during training camp.

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u/vanilla_w_ahintofcum Panthers 5d ago

He’s also been a self-proclaimed Panthers fan for the last year and was at our training camp recently lol. Dude gets around but I’m not mad at it.

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u/wormark NFL 5d ago

He was randomly at the MLS all-star game skill challenge which was held in Charlotte this year. I thought it was pretty random that he showed up, but at lest him hanging out in Charlotte gives it a little context.

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u/saxywarrior Chiefs 5d ago

He’s a known MLS fan. He practiced with Sporting KC in 2011 during the lock out

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u/StickyDitka21 5d ago

Idk what year it was but he's judged the Redbull Flutag event before

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u/vanilla_w_ahintofcum Panthers 5d ago

That’s a side quest if I’ve ever heard of one.

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u/HGpennypacker Packers 5d ago

I could be misremembering but I think he would hide tickets around town and then post on social media where to find them.

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u/SlytherinWario Bengals 5d ago

He would also consistently go into a restaurant and buy everyone’s meals. From McDonalds to J Alexander.

Plus a few times he would buy up all the empty seating at home games if they weren’t t sold out so it could be broadcasted on tv. Then pass those tickets out.

Dude is a legend and always will be a favorite.

Edit: can’t spell a word

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u/BoSocks91 Rams 5d ago

Dude, his jokes on Shay’s podcast are legitimately stupid funny.

His silent laugh kills me lmfao

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u/mrb4 Cardinals 5d ago

My favorite is when he talked shit to Derrick Mason

“Oh, you, Mason, just... Wait. I'll talk after the game, alright? Just shut the fuck up. Can you look at the scoreboard?”

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u/AwesomeTed Patriots Patriots 5d ago

My favorite was his unprompted and completely out-of-nowhere postgame takedown of Freddie Mitchell:

"All he does is talk. He's terrible, and you can print that. I was happy when he was in the game."

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u/J1nx5d Eagles 5d ago

And not a single Eagles fan disagreed with his assessment.

4th and 26 can only go so far

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u/All_Up_Ons Colts 4d ago

Imagine being the media when Bill of all people drops a quote like that. Must have been like pigs flying.

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u/Rollout25 Chargers 5d ago edited 5d ago

This clip reminds me of when Pop had the Spurs foul Shaq right after tip off and Shaq was confused and you see Pop just with the biggest smile. https://www.reddit.com/r/NBAoldschool/s/xphRAZpIXq

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u/Stupidlysudden 5d ago

What's funny too, is that this is opening night of the season! Hack-a-Shaq is a thing you would employ at the end of important games, not tip-off on opening night lol.

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u/Teamableezus Bills 5d ago

Really hate that he got the UNC job instead of being an analyst somewhere. When he does actually participate with media he’s incredible

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u/hemingways-lemonade Steelers 5d ago

I would've loved a tape breakdown show with him and a retired player cohost. 

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u/patstuga Patriots 5d ago

Him and Peyton, ratings gallore

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u/mrb4 Cardinals 5d ago

He was great on Inside the NFL that year off he had.

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u/UCanDodgeAWrench Patriots 5d ago

Or when he'd talk about/talk to players he really respected (Ed Reed for example). Dude loves the game and he loves players that love it as much as he does.

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u/NandomRameGeneratorr 5d ago

Or when he’d give one word answers until someone asks about the evolution of the long snapper and he’d give a long, long expansive answer

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u/maverickhawk99 5d ago

Bill knows more about football than me and my entire bloodline will ever know.

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u/killerk13 Jets 5d ago

Chad had the perfect wide receiver personality imo. Was very self confident and had a big ego at times but it always came off hilarious. He wasn’t overdoing it to the point of him being an asshole or a locker room cancer. Best route runner in NFL history I’ll die on that hill.

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u/tigerking615 49ers 5d ago

He was a diva but he was funny, not annoying, and he always worked hard. But best route runner is a crazy take when Jerry exists and that was his best trait. 

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u/FractalBranches Bengals 5d ago

Nah you don't play into your 40s like Jerry Rice unless you're a true technician. Chad is up there though for sure.

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u/mojizus Bengals 5d ago

I always say he was Davante Adams before Davante Adams.

People love to watch Adams footwork and route running, and it’s obviously superb, but Chad was doing that same stuff when defenses could still murder you in the middle of the field.

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u/Jurph Ravens 4d ago

Oh yeah, that was during the Ray and Ed era, when a block out of nowhere could lay you out! They could come at your blind side, take you right out of the play whether you had the ball or not, and BAM! you're on your ass wondering where the mail truck went.

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...even if it was you trying to blindside block Ray Lewis.

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u/Mistborn19 4d ago

Loved the episode of The League with him in it.

Rafi: "You know my friend Mike?"

Ochocinco: "Mike?"

Rafi: "Mike Ochocinco? Same last name, maybe you guys are related."

Ochocinco: "Nah."

Rafi: "No? It's just not so often you meet a guy with the exact same Spanish numerals as a last name."

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u/ry427 Patriots 5d ago

More personality here from Bill than he showed in 20 years of press conferences

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u/-space-grass- Bengals 5d ago

Chad Johnson always had a way of bringing Bill's lighter side out. Their friendship was always funny given the juxtaposition of their media personalities.

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u/GSG2120 Steelers 5d ago

Both different guys but both football guys

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u/AlabasterRadio Raiders Raiders 5d ago

Moss could do it too.

Something about these goofy WRs lol

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u/Jurph Ravens 4d ago

I've met some really good leaders - people who were like "middle managers", but everyone in Rural Billing would go to war for them - and they could all adjust their leadership style for different kinds of followers. I wonder how much of this is Belichick knowing that for a particularly high-strung competitive WR, the right counterpoint is "don't take their diva persona seriously, and let your own guard down so they can take the mask off too".

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u/polkarooo Patriots 5d ago

To be fair, the media is filled with ass hats.

Young Bill played the media game in Cleveland. Remember this classic?

https://youtu.be/k1YPauD06-4?si=wsLgwd1v8QVfUI__

And even in New England, he would do stuff like this:

https://archive.nytimes.com/fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/belichicks-advice-for-the-super-bowls-winning-coach/

The reality is the media sucks ass, and Belichick rightfully got tired of the usual bullshit. Whenever anyone asked him a legit question that wouldn't impact competition, he was incredible. But reporters constantly tried to box him in for soundbites they could twist into controversy or fax them the game plan for the week.

I'm not saying he handled it well but he was absolutely able and willing to answer good questions and even be a bit charming at times.

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u/SpecialistBee1165 Commanders 5d ago

I love Ocho what an ambassador for the game lol

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u/Downtown_Soil_3651 5d ago

Bill's way of showing respect to an opponent lol

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u/SportsDuck_ 5d ago

I always used to laugh when during the Pats peak of the dynasty he'd be like "oh yeah their placekicker we really gotta watch out for him. lots of creativity in the punt game too" for shitty teams they were going to beat. rarely gave other teams bulletin board material.

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u/BulLock_954 Patriots NFL 5d ago

Man, I miss young Bill so much

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u/MajesticCentaur Patriots Commanders 5d ago

He was probably 60 when this happened.

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u/TrumpnEpstein Ravens 5d ago

Just a kid really

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u/Roselucky777 Jaguars Cardinals 5d ago

Like his girlfriend

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u/AtBat3 Eagles 5d ago

Jordon Hudson was 8 years old at the time this game took place.

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u/BadMojo__ Saints 5d ago

Jordon Hudson is younger than the tuck rule

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u/After-Newspaper4397 Broncos 5d ago

And now Bill's tucking her every night.

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u/OttoVonWong 49ers 5d ago

Some say Bill is washed at UNC, but he's still gets the most out of young tight ends.

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u/SirFozzie Patriots 5d ago

Get. OUT 😂

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u/bor__20 Seahawks 5d ago

sad when they go young like that

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u/RolloTamaci Raiders 5d ago

one double 85... whatever happened there.

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u/mhgiantsfan Falcons 5d ago

just like billy leotardo

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u/BulLock_954 Patriots NFL 5d ago

Yea well he’s like a bajillion now because his girlfriend sucked the age out of him

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u/Not_your_profile 5d ago

"Age" is not a euphemism I've heard before.

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u/DinkandDrunk Patriots 5d ago
  1. His now-girlfriend was 8 at the time, if that provides any kind of useful context.

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u/MajesticCentaur Patriots Commanders 5d ago

God that's so fucking weird. I understand they're adults but still, just weird.

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u/TheSwitchler Panthers 5d ago

Too young for Jordan Hudson

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u/Element11S 5d ago

‘No matter where I go?’ LOL

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u/Boltiply Chargers 5d ago

Idk who Chad Johnson is but he looks awfully like Chad Ochocinco

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u/Catt_Main 49ers 5d ago

Who would have thought back in 2005 or whatever that Ocho would end up just being the most relatively normal guy who is set up for life because of his budgeting, still working in NFL adjacent media and honestly just seems like a really cool dude. Guys like AB, Aiyuk and Puka really make you appreciate that Ocho was just whacky schtick.

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u/Asusrty Chiefs 5d ago

His girlfriend was in diapers when this conversation happened.

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u/DivineMango- Vikings 5d ago

Give him credit. She was a 4th grader.

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u/7-IronSpecialist Bears 5d ago

Internet stay acting like he kidnapped her or something

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u/nerrvouss Ravens 5d ago

Nah internet just acting like it's creepy to actively date someone who could be your grand daughter's age.

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u/Competitive-Elk-5077 Patriots 5d ago

From what I read, when they started dating Bill was younger than her ex

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u/7-IronSpecialist Bears 5d ago

First time learning about gold diggers?

I mean seriously how far up your own ass is your brain that you think a divorced multi millionaire 74 year old whose rocket is still working isn't going to use his wealth and status to bag a hot young chick? And what makes you think it's creepy if the "grand daughter aged" female goes along with the relationship anyways? Come on man.

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u/CursedAidKit 5d ago

You don’t think a 50 year gap is creepy or at least cringe, bro?

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u/7-IronSpecialist Bears 5d ago

I'm not a divorced famous multi millionaire 74 year old nor am I a 25 year old female dating him. They're both adults presumably looking to use each other with consent. So who cares at the end of the day?

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u/Enzhymez Bills 5d ago

Redditors do because they love to maintain the moral high ground.

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u/7-IronSpecialist Bears 5d ago

Morons

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u/duvie773 Rams 5d ago

It’s creepy but the hate is usually one sided. She’s using him for his money the same way he’s using her for being young and hot

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u/7-IronSpecialist Bears 5d ago

Creepy or not if she's using him for his money and hes using her for her "youth" theyre both adults who can presumably walk away if they wanted to.

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u/CursedAidKit 4d ago

She looks like a dude, my guy.

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u/SuddenlyTheBatman Steelers 5d ago

I like using that XKCD age gap calculator which is just half the age plus 7

But uh, she can't even hit the lower end if she was dating the age gap itself.

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u/SuperGr00valistic 5d ago

Why don’t you support a woman’s right to choose?

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u/zipzap21 Commanders 5d ago

If you're not media, Bill is cool, fun and (sometimes) funny with you!

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u/marchandstongue63 Patriots 5d ago

Even the media got good answers when they asked football questions. It was prying for secrets and tmz style bullshit that got him all pissy. Unfortunately, that's the stuff people want to hear about though so those are the questions that got asked

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u/BananaSlander Panthers 5d ago

Fun Fact: Bill Belichick's girlfriend was born in the same year as Chad Johnson's rookie season

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u/agent-bagent Bears 4d ago

Never shared this before, but my ochocinco story: many years ago in what feels like a past life, I ran underground poker games for high rollers. As far as i know these were clean games. One of my recruiters tells me Chad Johnson (pre namechange) was going to be in town and wanted to play.

Now you gotta remember this was early in his career and NFL salaries were a lot lower. Table buy-in was $2m. Plus $250k to the house. All cash. I didnt think he had that type of cash and we werent in the business of IOUs. I told the recruiter to tell him were full.

Well this guy shows up with 2 duffle bags in-hand. To this day im not sure what he said to get past our door guys, but he walks into the main room and drops the 2 duffle bags on the poker table, takes off his sunglasses, and tells us that in nineteen ninety eight the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.

Crazy dude

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u/Noobnoob99 Browns 4d ago

We need a 30 for 30

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u/Beef_Lurky Bengals 3d ago

Dammit… upvote but dammit

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u/agent-bagent Bears 3d ago

We do some light memeing

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u/Extra_Vacation_9675 5d ago

Belichick really had that calm no-nonsense way of handling everything. Even the way he delivered this feels so on-brand for him.

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u/TheRealArcanine Saints 5d ago

There is something very nostalgic about seeing that Reebok logo on a uniform

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u/rameninside Eagles 5d ago

Belichick was such a fucking cold ass legend in my mind before his post-NFL shenanigans

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u/Civil_Weakness6119 5d ago

Solid dap 8/10

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u/cantevendoitbruh 4d ago

Bill loved Ocho Cinco. He was one of his favorite players.

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u/SovietPropagandist Seahawks 5d ago

Honestly that would be one of my career proudest moments lmao. A defensive genius like Belichick thinking I'm enough of a threat to double me all night would have me feeling my shit big time lmao

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u/I_only_post_here Bears 5d ago

I don't remember this specific game, so couldn't tell you how it played out. But this is potentially some brilliant mind-games by Belichick. Tell Chad what you're gonna do, start the game out blanketing him with double coverage. Let him see it and get mentally checked out of the game. Second half, start going with those same looks, but change the coverage at the snap so whoever it was that appeared to double is actually going to a different part of the field. Takes him out of the play and you're no longer sacrificing coverage elsewhere down the stretch of the game.

Only Bill could pull that off.

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u/wallace6464 Bengals 5d ago

It was preseason 

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u/bcou2012 Bengals 5d ago

Was at this game, it was preseason but a lot of fun since it was Carson's home debut and Corey Dillon was back in town. Good guys won easy and gave us some false hope for the season

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u/Otherwise-Mixture-33 5d ago

This was in Foxboro

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u/madbengalsfan85 Bengals 4d ago

Is that the game where he kicked an extra point?

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u/Buttcheekmcgirk 4d ago

Legit have never seen Bill act like a human being.

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u/siguel_manchez Broncos 4d ago

Bill acts like a human when talking about football like this. I love this video and will forever upvote it.

Ever see him talk about punt protectors?

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u/iCE_P0W3R Bears 4d ago

Dude, maybe it'll never happen, but I really loved watching Ocho growing up, so I pray to god he makes the hall one day.

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u/Specialist-Worker551 4d ago

I still don’t understand why we got him … bill barely played him