this line of mewling is absurd. It’s no surprise that you are tired of “trying to outsmart people”, as you say in the Zappe thread—thinking is not your métier.And he got busted again in 2019 for videotaping. I really don't care about Spygate, but there's a pattern and an irony here.
Belichick, the ultimate disciplinarian, had a disregard for the rules. Whether it's not wearing camo gear during Vet month or giving his name to a video game, he was always counterculture.
It tracks with his accumulation of power in Foxboro. Belichick wanted to tell people what to do, and hated the other way around.
it shall inevitably be the season of BB-haters to whinge and complain now that “mean bad man gone”. That’s their right. But he didn’t hate to be challenged and he had a clear disregard not for rules, but for fools. Abrasive, harsh, demanding, exhausting, prickly…I believe all that to be true. But some people are acting as if he was a millstone around the team’s neck for decades. Imagine the success they could have had if only he had been more of a hugger, or worn more camo.
Change can be good…and is sometimes necessary. But the rush to pen a nasty epilogue to a tremendous if complex narrative just cheapens the whole, like a knock-knock joke at a eulogy.