Among his fans there was a young Bill Belichick, the future Patriots coach. But when he had to choose between football and the Navy, he went blue. And never regretted it. Joseph Michael “Joe” Bellino, who passed away a few days ago, was the son of a Sicilian immigrant, and was born in 1938 in Winchester, Mass.

Apr 13, 2017 · This issue we give the Naval Academy “equal time” by interviewing Joe Bellino, Navy’s superb halfback who won the 1960 Heisman. Joe Bellino has lived the American Dream with three successful careers: athletics, the military and business.

Bill Belichick, the wildly successful head coach of the New England Patriots. On March 27, 2019, we lost Bellino to a hard-fought battle with stomach cancer. We celebrate his vast accomplishments serving our country as a U.S. Navy football star, midshipman and naval officer.

Aug 9, 2004 · To this day Bellino, now an auto-auction executive in the Boston area, remembers playing catch on the practice field with Bill. "Imagine what Bill must have absorbed," says Bellino. "He'd sit in...

Dec 10, 2016 · CBS interviewed Patriots coach Bill Belichick and 1960 Heisman winner Joe Bellino from Navy as part of its Army-Navy Game coverage Saturday. Belichick’s father, Steve, was an assistant coach at Navy when Bellino played there, and little Bill, then 7, took it all in.

Apr 3, 2019 · While at Navy, Bellino found an admirer in a young football fan named Bill Belichick, a future coach of the Patriots, whose father, Steve, was an assistant coach at the academy. The first...

Apr 1, 2019 · One of his closest friendships was with New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, whose father, Steve, was a longtime Naval Academy assistant coach.

Mar 30, 2019 · Naval Academy legend and 1960 Heisman Trophy winner Joe Bellino passed away on Wednesday evening in Massachusetts at the age of 81. Bellino was a 1961 graduate of ... as well as everyone associated with the Naval Academy and college football fans," said New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, who grew up in Annapolis and whose father ...

Starting in 2007, Belichick was in a relationship with Linda Holliday, the executive director of the Bill Belichick Foundation. [210] [211] The relationship ended in 2023. In June 2024, it was reported that Belichick was in a relationship with Jordon Hudson, a 24-year-old former cheerleader and 2024 Miss Maine USA pageant first runner-up. The ...

Dec 14, 2016 · In the lead up to the annual Army-Navy game on Saturday, New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick sat down with former Navy running back Joe Bellino, the 1960 Heisman Trophy winner,...