Dave Portnoy has long been vilified as a toxic guy. He’s still the one millions follow for ordinary pizza-review videos.

Whenever Bill Belichick, the 72-year-old former head coach of the New England Patriots, goes out in public with his girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, who is exactly one-third his age, they tend to draw attention. It was no different at the 2025 N.F.L. Honors earlier this month. Everything about the red-carpet photos accentuates their Evel Knievel-size age gap: Belichick looks sedately pleased in a maroon blazer, like a car dealer at a Shriners banquet; Hudson beams in a sparkly Cirque du Soleil-style number that covers approximately 12 percent of her torso. That’s what most people seemed to notice about the pictures.

But not Dave Portnoy. The founder and owner of Barstool Sports — the Utne Reader for the light-domestic-swilling, backslapping, Zyn-packing, parlay-chasing American male — Portnoy has long been treated as an avatar for

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