about the announcement that Bill Parcells will serve as a consultant to the New York Jets, starting next season, and that his assistant at New England, Bill Belichick, also will leave the Patriots and become acting head coach at the Jets. The move appears to be a way around the ruling by NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue that Parcells could not break his contract with New England, in order to take the head coaching job with the Jets.
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