Bill Belichick contacted Jets over interest in HC job before landing at North Carolina in football stunner

Imagine the size of the napkin that Bill Belichick would have needed to pen an apology letter to the Jets.

Before he was hired last week as head coach at the University of North Carolina, Belichick reached out to the Jets to express interest in their head coach vacancy, a source told The Post’s Brian Costello.

It furthered a story Saturday that there had been contact between Belichick and the Jets but no formal interview, meeting or conversation took place, as first reported by The Athletic.

A marriage between the Hatfields and the McCoys in the 1800s would have seemed more likely than a Belichick-Jets reunion up until then.

Ever since Jan. 4, 2000 — the day that he was supposed to be introduced as the Jets head coach — Belichick has made it a mission to torment and ridicule the Jets.

That day infamously ended with Belichick penning a quick resignation letter — “I resign as HC of the NYJ” — on a napkin and turning his press conference into a circus because his old agreement to succeed Bill Parcells had been with the late previous owner Leon Hess and not the incoming Woody Johnson.