“He’s been a guy who’s never cared what anybody has thought,” the Patriots fan Portnoy said of Belichick. “But I’ve never seen him seemingly stunned in an interview, like ‘Oh my god, I can’t believe you asked that.’ I’ve just never seen it. For it to come from the ‘CBS Sunday Morning’ guy … these are the nicest interviewers ever.”

“You have Jordon right over there,” interviewer Tony Dokoupil quipped during Belichick’s latest stop on his book tour. “Everybody in the world seems to be following this relationship. They’ve got an opinion about your private life. It’s got nothing to do with them, but they are invested in it. How do you deal with that?”