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A few years back, it was rumored that Bill Belichick put former NFL long-snapper David Binn on the AFC Pro Bowl team just because he was dating Pamela Anderson at the time. Binn would later confirm the story and this week the former New England Patriots head coach was asked about it.
In 2022, David Binn appeared on the Pro Football Doc Podcast with Dr. David Chao. During his interview, he recalled, “I’m walking by Bill and he looks at me and he’s like, ‘Hey, where’s your girlfriend?’ And I said, ‘Oh, Pam? She didn’t come out.’ And he goes, ‘Remind me why the f— I invited you out here then.’ And he gave me this deadpan look and I thought he was kidding, but he didn’t crack a smile and then I was like, ‘Wait, he serious? Is he kidding?’ I just walked off like, I couldn’t figure it out.”
The story has been retold several times since then, including on one edition of the Manningcast. According to Peyton Manning, Belichick “thought players would like to see Pam in the pool in Hawaii.”
“I need you to confirm or deny a rumor,” Dr. David Chao said to Bill Belichick during his appearance this week on the Pro Football Doc Podcast. “We had Dave Binn, another long-snapper, on our podcast and he told us a story about him being at the Pro Bowl. Can you confirm or deny the words that you said there about, asking about where his girlfriend was?”
“I’m going to plead the fifth,” Belichick replied, then added after Chao told the story again, “All I’ll say, doc, is that was set up well before he was selected. What the terms of engagement were on that one. I felt like we had a handshake agreement on that situation. His special teams coach was a coach that I had, Steve Crosby, was his coach in San Diego. Steve coached for me in Cleveland and so, uh, I felt like we had a handshake agreement on that situation.”
Dr. Chao also brought up the death of Junior Seau to Bill Belichick during the interview, which is weird since Chao was investigated by the California Medical Board and was placed on four years of probation for providing 14 prescriptions for Ambien to a depressed and suicidal Seau in the 18 months prior to him killing himself.