After being the butt of yet another age-related joke at this weekend’s Hall of Fame ceremony, Bill Belichick’s girlfriend Jordon Hudson is (quietly) clapping back.
While accepting the Bill Nunn Memorial Award from the Pro Football Writer’s Association on Friday night, longtime Browns reporter Mary Kay Cabot made a quip about the first head coach she ever covered — one William Stephen Belichick — and how he treated her when she would run a story that he didn’t approve of.
Years after getting yelled at by then-Browns coach Bill Belichick, Mary Kay Cabot literally got the last laugh as she received the Bill Nunn Memorial Award at the Hall of Fame. https://t.co/sZOFaENpqm
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“If Bill didn’t like something I wrote, he’d call and yell at me,” Mary Kay recalled. “Now I totally understand why Bill game such a hard time. I was 28 [years old] at the time and he just couldn’t relate to a woman that old.”
Earlier today, ProFootballTalk talked about how Cabot got the “last laugh” more than 30 years later. But that’s not how one user (or Hudson) saw it.
“Not much of a ‘laugh,'” an account said, which Hudson reposted on X. “No wonder so many have contempt for the media, especially those who want to be the story rather than [report] on the story.”
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The joke was clearly a jab at Belichick’s relationship with the 24-year-old New England native — which has come under fire ever since it went public last June.
With Friday’s honor, Mary Kay became the second reporter from the Cleveland Plain Dealer to win the award, along with the late Chuck Heaton who worked as a sportswriter at the paper for half a century.
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