Belichick and Saban: The Stories Behind Football’s Most Powerful Friendship

Posted Feb 3, 2018
This was in the late 1980s; they were both a couple years away from turning 40, and neither man’s name meant then what it does today. Nick Saban flew in from Houston, where he coached the Oilers’ defensive backs. Bill Belichick, then the Giants’ defensive coordinator, drove up from New Jersey with 16-millimeter film canisters and a projector stashed in his car. (Sports Illustrated)

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