Bill Belichick is without a full-time NFL coaching job for the first time since he was fired by the newly transitioned Baltimore Ravens in February 1996, more than five years before his girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, 24, was born.
Now that he is away from the sidelines, one insider claims Hudson has made the six-time Super Bowl champion realize ‘there’s more to life than football.’
The insider also claims that Belichick is ‘living his best life’ despite the near-50-year-age gap between Hudson and Belichick, 72, per the US Sun.
Belichick served as the Patriots head coach from 2000 until this January, with none of the seven non-Patriots NFL vacancies hiring him to take the helm.
The Atlanta Falcons came the closest, holding two interviews with Belichick before deciding on Raheem Morris to lead the team instead.
Belichick is staying in the game of football as an analyst on the ManningCast associated with ESPN’s Monday Night Football.
‘I don’t know if he is looking to go back to coaching again, I may be wrong, but I think that he is realizing that there is more in life than just football,’ per the US Sun.
Belichick has not has an extended period without an NFL job since 1974, the year before he began as a special assistant with the Baltimore Colts.
That was nearly 18 years before Hudson’s birth, with Belichick’s life wrapped around football for five decades.
Hudson and Belichick were spotted together on a bike ride in Nantucket over the 4th of July holiday, wearing matching rings on their index fingers.
Hudson is a former college cheerleader at Bridgewater State in Massachusetts that has become famous for dating Belichick.
The duo met on a flight three years ago and stayed in contact since, with their romance first making headlines last month.
Comments on every post of Hudson’s Instagram make reference to her relationship with Belichick dating back several months.