Norbert Leo Butz, along with former NFL player Domonique Foxworth, talk about the latest hour in the FX series about Aaron Hernandez.
“Remind me who Bill Belichick is?” is what two-time Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz asked upon learning he was on the shortlist to play the iconic New England Patriots coach in. “That’s how little I follow the NFL. I’m a big baseball fan, a hockey fan; football was never my sport,” he confesses tostaff writer Domonique Foxworth not only knows who Belichick is, he also knows what it feels like to play football at a high level in high school, college and the NFL.
That rude awakening of pro football being different for Hernandez is clearly communicated in an early encounter with Coach Belichick, played by Butz. After his first practice, Hernandez is showering with his teammates, bragging on his performance. “I’m telling you, Brady and I got that chemistry bro,” he says, smiling when a veteran interrupts and reminds him “rookies get the pads.
“He loved rock and roll, going to concerts. He had a really good core group of friends. He was a great father; his kids adored him,” says Butz of the part of Belichick that NFL fans didn’t see as he was coaching the Patriots to six Super Bowl championships. It’s a softer side that Aaron presumably never saw either. “That front he put on the impenetrable badass was all strategic, and brilliantly strategic.
“Essentially, when you take that next step, there are people that fall off from your life,” explains Foxworth, speaking from the personal experience of growing up in the Maryland area, playing high school and college football there and being drafted by the Denver Broncos. “You go from college to the NFL and those relationships grow apart and it’s not as convenient when you’re in Colorado and they’re in Baltimore.
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