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Why We Really Don't Like Belichick and the Patriots

People don't like Belichick and the New England Patriots because they stand out like nerds in a league of sports franchises. Belichick is not known as an ex-jock who was handed the reins of a team. When people think of Bill Belichick, they think of that precocious 12-year-old boy who dissected film for his father when his father coached. And his father didn't coach the Trojans of USC or the Spartans of Michigan State, but the Naval Academy Midshipmen (of all schools). (Midshipmen being "subordinate officers" or alternatively "commissioned officers of the lowest rank"). The signature book written about Bill Belichick is titled The Education of a Coach, which sounds like a college textbook.