Belichick parting would come with a price
Jackie Robinson made history on this date
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It has been a strange week for Bill Belichick, hasn’t it? The 73-year-old legendary coach and his 24-year-old girlfriend Jordon Hudson made news - they are always making news, it seems - with the coach’s 60 Minutes interview. Belichick claimed CBS selectively edited the interview, which was, he claimed, strictly to be about his new book. Hudson purportedly staged a vehement protest to the network crew, when the interview “went off the rails.”
With Belichick now entrenched in his first year, as coach of the University of North Carolina football team, stories are beginning to emerge this might not be the look the school wants for its football program. Hudson reportedly also prevented the Tar Heels from being on HBO’s Hard Knocks. But what would it cost the university, if the two sides parted company even before he coached a game? According to the website Sportico, a buyout would cost the university $26.7M. In other words, all this conversation on talk radio and on websites make for clickbait content. Belichick is going no where.
It was not only April 15, 1947 that Jackie Robinson made history, breaking baseball’s color barrier. He also became a part of history on this date too. On May 2, 1966, Robinson was named general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers. But how could this be? The Dodgers moved to Los Angeles after the 1957 season.
The Brooklyn Dodgers were members of the Continental Football League and Robinson became the first African American to be named GM of a pro sports team. At the news conference announcing his appointment, Robinson stated Brooklyn was begging for the return of a sports team, with the hopes of MLB also returning to the New York borough. Ironically, Brooklyn would get a major league franchise, the NBA’s Nets, who play at an arena on a site, where Walter O’Malley wanted to build a new ballpark for the Dodgers, but was spurned by New York powerbroker Robert Moses. That’s when O’Malley up and left for the west coast.
As an aside, I remember the CFL, because Hartford also had an entry, the Hartford Charter Oaks. I would listen to some of their games on WTIC-AM radio.
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