When you stand falsely accused of having eaten watermelon rolls. Photo by Bob DeChiara-USA TODAY Sports
The biggest news heading into the final, and worthless, last week of the NFL preseason is Bill Belichick's diet. During an unusually candid press conference this morning, the New England Patriots head coach was seemingly playful (for him) with the gathered media and engaged in some collegial back-and-forth. Belichick was asked if he and the Pats front office had an idea of who would and would not be making rosters across the league, and responded with equal parts contempt and just the slightest bit of insight into the inner-workings of his brain.
Advertisement
So first, he obviously does answer the question, albeit in a scoffing and passive aggressive way. Of course we have a good idea, the unspoken first clause of the answer goes, "what do you think we're doing?" Then Bill adds a little bit of personal flavor with a thing that I—and many others judging from the reactions to this statement—have never heard of: a watermelon roll. It's unclear from the response what exactly a watermelon roll is, it could be a lot of things, really:
- a contest where people roll watermelons down a hill
- a shorthand for his favorite Fruit Roll-Up flavor
- Watermelon…on a roll?