FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Notre Dame running back Theo Riddick has heard the accent, the one that identifies where his head coach, Brian Kelly, is from and how far he has come. It’s faint now, but its emergence is not for the faint of heart.
Kelly’s dialect these days is nearly indecipherable as he smoothly navigates media appearance after media appearance in the lead-up to Monday night’s BCS national championship game against Alabama. He has the polish of a presidential candidate and the presence of a motivational speaker. But in the heat of the moment when the Everett-born, Chelsea-raised Fighting Irish coach gets red-faced and vociferous, his Boston accent emerges to accentuate his point.
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Of course, Coach Bellichick's greatset manifestations of genius were in 2001 when he won a Superbowl with not even the 10th best team in the league and a baby Brady who managed, not won games that byear, (see Pats 2001 defense) and 2008 when Bill won 11 games without Brady and, at the end of the year, beat the Superbowl runnerup 47-7. What did Twitter Joe Sullivan chastise neophyte Gasper for not including a Patriot cheapshot lately?
"He knows about Dunkin’ Donuts, Kelly’s Roast Beef, the old Boston Garden, and the Tobin Bridge."
If so, then he knows it as the Mystic River Bridge.