In what is a pretty neat story, New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick recently spent some time with the military service academies. He left his experience with them touched by the entire thing.
According to Mike Giardi of NBC Sports Boston, Belichick was asked by Navy coach Ken Niumatalo to speak to his team last weekend. This week, the Patriots are spending time with Air Force.
“It’s really an honor,” said Belichick. “Ken has asked me to do a couple of times in different situations, but to speak to the actual team and not recruits is really an honor. For Ken and the Navy team and the Navy program and the Institution — to be able to stand in front of that group — is a special feeling.”
What makes this even cooler is that Bill Belichick clearly took the Navy's coach request seriously. It was certainly an honor for him.
“That’s probably as nervous as I’ve been talking to a group in quite a while,” he said. “It was definitely special and there’s just something about looking at that group of kids that a little bit different than looking at another team — not to take anything away from another team — but that’s just a little bit different. It’s special. I really appreciate Ken giving me that opportunity and I’m glad they won last week, not that I had anything to do with it. I’m just glad it worked out for them too.”
“Tremendous respect for them, what they do and how hard it is, number one to get into a service academy and number two meet the demands that the service academy puts on you physically, mentally, learning,” Belichick said. “I mean look, the kids that come out of here operate the highest technological and most sophisticated equipment in the world at a high level and a high price, too. There’s a lot at stake, too. What they do and how they do it and how they’re trained to do it is . . . very proud to be here and very proud of what they do.”
However you feel about the Patriots and/or Belichick, this is a neat story.
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