FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) -New England Patriots Coach Bill Belichick says he admired the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, who sent him personal notes and congratulations on the team’s successes.
Belichick said Wednesday that Kennedy’s “leadership and his courage were certainly something I personally always looked up to” and also “meant a lot” to people in Massachusetts and the nation.
Speaking at the team’s training facility the morning after Kennedy’s death from brain cancer, Belichick said the senator “personally was very supportive of this team and also of me.” He added that Kennedy attended the team’s Super Bowl victory visits to the White House.
Kennedy played football at Harvard. As a senior end, he caught a five-yard pass for a touchdown in a 21-7 loss to Yale on Nov. 20, 1955.
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