Bill Belichick Rattles Off Navy's 1967 Schedule Like It Was Yesterday

It's probably a smart move to never test Bill Belichick's football memory bank. The Hooded Genius jumped on a call to talk with Herbie and Rece Davis about Navy football and Lee Corso's time as a defensive backs coach at the Academy. Belichick's father was on the Navy staff in 1967 with Corso so young Billy -- 15 that fall -- had memories to share of what the football office was like that the time.

What you might not have expected was for Belichick to rattle off what kind of season Navy had that year. It was a pedestrian 5-4-1 season, but to Hoodie it seems like one of the greatest years of his life. He didn't rattle off the entire schedule like NESN's Zack Cox says in his tweet, but it's very close.

“They beat Penn State at Penn State," Bill said, just getting started. "They beat Michigan at Michigan. They beat Syracuse. They beat Pitt. Of course, they beat Army. They were upset by Rice and William & Mary. Tied by Vanderbilt.

"It was really a great team and they had a great year, but they lost some tough games and of course, beat Army so that makes every Navy season successful."

The haters will say Bill had a 1967 Navy schedule open on his laptop and that's how these memories started flooding out while talking to Herbie. The realists know Hoodie is just this locked in on the game and this is how much he loves football. It's his life. It's all he's ever known and some people are just created to be walking encyclopedias.

I remember a time when I was at a Gatorade event in Los Angeles and was interviewing Matthew Stafford with my buddy Paul Eide. Paul fashions himself as Mr. NFL Encyclopedia and tries to show off by bringing up a memory about a preseason game where Stafford threw a touchdown pass to Golden Tate and the Lions QB instantly remembers it like it happened the day before. Then Stafford proceeds to bring up another preseason game memory from two years prior to the Tate memory.

Some of these Football Guys remember everything that happened during their football life, including random games during the 1967 Navy football season.