![]() He won his first two Super Bowls as the defensive coordinator for the New York Giants in 1986 and again in 1990 before claiming his two Super Bowl championships with the Patriots in the past three years. In his first 29 seasons, his teams qualified for the playoffs 13 times and won nine division titles, five conference championships and four Super Bowls. Now in his 30th season in the NFL, he has more years of NFL experience than any of the other 31 head coaches. The recent Super Bowl win was the fourth of Belichick's distinguished NFL career, a career that began in 1975. Chuck Noll (4), Joe Gibbs (3) and Bill Walsh (3) are the only head coaches in the history of the game to have won more Super Bowls than Belichick. With his Super Bowl XXXVIII triumph, Belichick became just the 12th head coach in NFL history to win multiple Super Bowl titles. Lombardi won nine of his 10 playoff appearances, including the league's first two Super Bowl titles while coaching the Green Bay Packers. The only coach to enjoy a better rate of success in the playoffs is the coach whose name is now emblazoned on the Super Bowl trophy, Vince Lombardi. Belichick's three playoff victories last season improved his career winning percentage in the playoffs to. To put that into perspective, consider that in the franchise's first 40 seasons, the team had only won seven of its 17 playoff games. His current six-game postseason win streak is the third longest in NFL history. The Super Bowl XXXVIII victory improved Belichick's record in the playoffs to 6-0 since joining the Patriots in 2000 and gave him seven career playoff victories in eight postseason games. He became just the sixth head coach in NFL history to win two Super Bowls in a three year span. 1, 2004, after the Patriots defeated the Carolina Panthers, 32-29, in Super Bowl XXXVIII. 3, 2002, he became the first head coach in the franchise's 42-year history to lead the team to a league title, AFL or NFL, with a dramatic 20-17 victory over the St. ![]() Belichick, who was a defensive assistant and assistant head coach for the Patriots when the team won a conference title in 1996, took over and quickly molded the Patriots into one of the elite teams in the NFL. He and his wife, Debby, have three children: Amanda, Stephen and Brian.īill Belichick returned to New England when Patriots owner Robert Kraft named him the 14th head coach in Patriots history on Jan. He attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., before enrolling at Wesleyan, where he earned his bachelor's degree in economics in 1975. Bill was a standout prep athlete at Annapolis High, where he has since been inducted into the school's Hall of Fame. His father, Steve, played fullback for the Detroit Lions in 1941 and coached for 33 years at the Naval Academy. Bill Belichick was born Apin Nashville, Tenn.
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