Introducing the Breakout Star of the Fall TV Season: Bill Belichick

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So, perhaps you’ve been wondering what could possibly fill the entertainment void in your life as we transition into a post “Game of Thrones,” post “Avengers” world? Maybe some TV shows you’ve been loyal to like “Veep,” “The Americans,” “Portlandia” or “Jessica Jones” have run their course and will not be coming back. You realized we’re probably a year away on another season of “Cobra Kai” and longer than that for “Stranger Things Chapter 4″ and you’re afraid nothing will coming along to adequately fill that hole in your heart?

Well worry no more. Bill Belichick expounding on the list of the 100 greatest players in NFL history? Talking about the careers of some of the men he learned about as a boy, watched in college while his dad was at the Naval Academy, coached against with the Colts and Lions, game planned against with the Giants, Browns and Jets, and dominated for 20 years (and counting) in New England? Plus cracking wise like his SnapFace joke? Um …

Yes, please. How often do you get the chance to have the world’s most knowledgeable expert on a subject speaking extemporaneously about it. Opening up his vast treasure trove of wisdom and insight with the world. With all due respect to guys like Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Michio Kaku, this is like Discovery Channel doing a show about astrophysics co-hosted by Einstein.

And get a load of this hype by Rich Eisen:

“Belichick is SO into it. The ‘IT’ being celebrating the sport. Celebrating the men. Celebrating the achievement. And he is so into the history of this game. … The number of guys that he could talk to just personally about emotional feelings about it. I can’t tell you how amazing it was.”

That is how you plug an upcoming limited series. You promise an expansive, entertaining and jovial Bill Belichick, speaking with passion about the men he knows better than anyone. What a coup for the NFL Network. What a gift to the world. The only people who won’t benefit from this are the ones up for Emmy Awards in 2020. Sorry, Bill Hader, Sandra Oh and everyone on “Better Call Saul.” Next year TV’s newest superstar will win ALL the prizes.