New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick won his sixth Super Bowl title on Sunday night following a 13-3 win over the Los Angeles Rams, and with that, the 66-year-old became the oldest coach to ever win a Super Bowl.
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— NFL Research (@NFLResearch) February 4, 2019
Ironically enough, the oldest coach to win a Super Bowl previously was Tom Coughlin, who guided the New York Giants to a Super Bowl victory over Belichick's Patriots back in February 2012 at the age of 65.
What a run it has been for Belichick, who took over as head coach of New England all the way back in 2001 and experienced immediate success, leading the Pats to 11 wins and a Super Bowl title over the then-St. Louis Rams in his first season.
Overall, Belichick has gone 225-79 in 19 seasons at the helm in Foxborough, making the playoffs in all but two of his seasons as head coach.
As a matter of fact, in 16 of his 19 years as coach, the Patriots have won the AFC East division title. The only years they didn't win? His first year as head coach in 2000, the year after they won their first Super Bowl in 2002, and then in 2008, when Tom Brady tore his ACL during the opening week of the regular season.
Prior to coaching the Patriots, Belichick actually spent five seasons as head coach of the Cleveland Browns from 1991 through 1995, going a much less stellar 36-44 and leading the Browns to one playoff appearance.
He then joined the Patriots as a defensive backs coach in 1996 and then went to the New York Jets as a defensive coordinator from 1997 through 1999.
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