Chapter 13 Summary

A celebrity event was held at Houston's Relient Arena January 26, 2004 in the startup to Super Bowl XXXVIII. Much had happened in the two years since the Patriots had first made a Super Bowl appearance. The first time they had been underdogs but now they were the proven team; going up against the underdog Carolina Panthers. They were coming in on a strong game winning streak of twelve in a row; the second highest in league history. They were now insiders. Belichick sat next to George H. W. Bush, with Robert Kraft and NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue on Bush's other side. Bush and Belichick had both attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. The President had spoken to Belichick's class in 1971, when he was the director of the CIA. He was also a good friend of Robert Kraft, who he had known for ten years...