" Back in the day, the New York Giants made Bill Belichick. He did his part by crafting not one but two defenses that catapulted the Giants to Super Bowl victories, and in doing so he established his credentials as head-coaching timber.

If the Giants do not win Super Bowls XXI and XXV, then perhaps Belichick never becomes a head coach. Or maybe he does become a head coach, but his career takes him on an entirely different timeline that does not pass through Foxboro. You never know.

So when the day comes when Belichick travels to Canton, Ohio, to make his Hall of Fame induction speech, he'll be talking about those Giants years.

Yet he will forever be haunted by this franchise. The Giants haunted him four years ago when David Tyree held the ball against his helmet and Plaxico Burress found himself alone in the end zone, resulting in a lost Super Bowl and a doomed quest for an undefeated season."