North Carolina Tar Heels head coach Bill Belichick once uttered what is now one of the most famous news conference lines in NFL history. It’s also incredibly meme-able, which is great for life in 2025.
“We’re onto Cincinnati” was the phrase that will live in infamy. It was spoken 15 times in a news conference after Belichick’s New England Patriots lost, 41-14, to the Kansas City Chiefs during the 2014 season.
It’s not quite at “We’re onto Cincinnati” levels, but Belichick was asked about the New York Giants’ vacant head-coaching job on Tuesday, and he spit out yet another classic line.
“Getting ready for Wake Forest, that’s all I got this week,” Belichick said, according to Andrea Adelson of ESPN.
In 2014, the famous phrase represented both Belichick’s contentious relationship with the media as well as his one-track mind. He had no more use for a loss that was in the past, and instead, he was focused on the next game. The Patriots won a Super Bowl that season, perhaps not surprisingly.
