Dave Portnoy is again weighing in on the viral Bill Belichick interview and fallout, saying there’s a “zero percent chance” Belichick wrote the statement accusing CBS News of “selectively editing.”
The Barstool Sports founder sat down with journalist Megyn Kelly to provide insight into the situation, adding that he knows the 73-year-old North Carolina head football coach and his 24-year-old girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, “personally.”
“He lives on Nantucket. I live on Nantucket. I’ve met Jordon, so it’s a very awkward thing to see,” Portnoy told Kelly on her Thursday podcast.
“In my years following Bill Belichick, I would say my knowledge of him, there’s roughly zero percent chance he wrote that,” he said of the statement. “But he just doesn’t care generally what anyone thinks about him,” Portnoy continued. “So to go write that — my guess would be Jordon wrote that.”
“I was not expecting this interview,” he added. “I was squirming. I don’t know what to expect. I don’t know what to think about it. It certainly was awkward … I don’t know why she’s so involved, I really don’t. I’ve met her. She’s nice enough, she’s running the whole show.”
Portnoy said, “Every piece of Bill Belichick business goes through her … Like if that was maybe not in a romantic relationship, and that’s his PR manager … nobody’s blinking at that … It’s just a very awkward situation. The age gap is huge, clearly, but she runs the show.”
“It’s such a juxtaposition of a guy who seemingly had no media savvy, but was always just straightforward, no time for the media. Now, having his life run by a [24-year-old], it certainly it’s eye-opening for a guy like me,” he added.
“I also know I’m gonna run into them in Nantucket, and I’m gonna be carrying my watermelon out of Stop-and-Shop, and I don’t want it to be an awkward conversation,” Portnoy told Kelly. “It went super viral. It’s all anybody’s talking about … because it’s just such a departure from how a sports fan page or fan everybody thought of Bill Belichick.”
Kelly said Hudson’s actions had entered the realm of “elder abuse” and gave her “Dr. Jill [Biden]” vibes.
She said if the “situation were reversed” and it was an older woman dating a controlling younger man, “we’d be accusing him of elder abuse and asking whether he’s guilty of coercive control, and whether this woman is OK.”
Belichick released a statement following the tense interview going viral, saying they had previously agreed to only discuss topics related to the book and not his relationship but those requests were “not honored.”
“[Hudson] was not deflecting any specific question or topic but simply doing her job to ensure the interview stayed on track,” he continued, saying the interview was “selectively edited” in an effort to “suggest a false narrative.”
My Sunday morning routine is always coffee and CBS Sunday Morning. It’s a feel good show. The opposite of controversial. So image my surprise this morning when they had the most awkward Bill Belichick interview I’ve ever seen. Like I was squirming in my seat pic.twitter.com/1p6XjwsTfk
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) April 27, 2025
