Bellichick attacks Brady

patswin · July 2005

There was a fascinating story in the Cambridge Chronicle last week, written by Brad Kelly, on a two-headed snake owned by Van Wallach, the head of Harvard's Department of Invertebrates, which he named ''Belichick/Brady." Wallach found the king snake, which is 11 inches long and could grow up to 3 feet, in Augusta, Maine. Kelly wrote, ''During the first feeding, the right head, Belichick, attacked Brady." Wallach explained that Belichick ''calls all the plays for the two heads." He said Belichick is longer and does the majority of the feeding because it is more dominant than Brady. ''Brady is neurologically not as fit as Belichick, but the two have learned to work together in unison," Wallach said. ''They each have an independent brain, so it took them a while to figure out that it doesn't matter who eats because they share one stomach." We'll resist inserting a corny one-liner here. Kelly writes that the snake is one of only 20 of its kind in the world and that private collectors pay up to $30,000 for such genetic mutants. Coincidentally, Patriots linebacker Chad Brown would likely have some interest in the snake since he owns a multimillion-dollar exotic snakes business in Colorado. ''I've seen a two-headed snake before but they are very rare," said Brown. ''That's pretty interesting. I like the names." Neither ''Brady" or ''Belichick" could be reached for comment