Overview

• Mary Kay Cabot received the Bill Nunn Memorial Award from the Pro Football Writers of America on August 2 during the Hall of Fame Gold Jacket Dinner in Canton, Ohio.
• In her acceptance speech, Cabot recalled covering Belichick as her first Browns coach in the early 1990s and the clashes they had over her reporting.
• She delivered a standout barb—“If you don’t have the ‘footballs’ to say that to the guys, then don’t say it to me”—to underscore her toughness under Belichick’s scrutiny.
• Cabot mocked the 73-year-old coach’s romance with 24-year-old Jordon Hudson by quipping that he “just couldn’t relate to a woman that old” when she was 28.
• She became the second woman and the second Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter after Chuck Heaton to earn the Bill Nunn Award.