Report: Bill Belichick's Girlfriend Revealed That They're Engaged

Much has been made lately about Bill Belichick's relationship with his girlfriend Jordon Hudson. 

As a result, it's not a surprise that a nugget buried in a fresh New York Times piece on the 24-year-old Hudson is gaining steam Tuesday. According to Times reporter Katherine Rosman, Belichick and Hudson might actually be more than just boyfriend and girlfriend. 

Reportedly there's reason to believe the pair are engaged.

"Ms. Hudson has told at least one person that she and Mr. Belichick are engaged to be married," Rosman wrote.

Interestingly, that line about a possible proposal from the 73-year-old eight-time Super Bowl champion is essentially a throwaway in the lengthy profile on Hudson. 

However, it has certainly caught the eyes of the football and gossip worlds, which this May-December relationship has straddled of late.

If Belichick and Hudson actually are engaged, we'd be shocked if either of them confirmed it publicly, at least not for a while. 

While Hudson has taken recent criticism stemming from her behavior during a CBS News interview that aired in late April, Belichick gushed over her during his appearance on ABC's Good Morning America last week.

“She’s been terrific through the whole process, and she’s been really helpful to me,” Belichick said. “She does the business things that don’t relate to North Carolina that come up in my life, so I can concentrate football and that’s really what I want to do.”

The longtime New England Patriots head coach would not discuss Hudson more in-depth, telling interviewer Michael Strahan that he wasn't going to expound on a "personal relationship." However, Belichick credited the former cheerleader and Miss Maine pageant contestant with being his "creative muse" during the writing of his new book, “The Art of Winning: Lessons from My Life in Football."

“I acknowledge her in the book, she was very helpful on that with the tribute pages and also giving a perspective of the book from kind of the business side,” Belichick told Strahan. “Sometimes I get a little football technical, and so she did a good job of keeping that balance there.”