Belcher was selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the third round (81st overall) of the 1977 NFL draft to play offensive guard.
[3] He played for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers for two more seasons, before retiring in November 1984, after the team won the Grey Cup.
Following his retirement from professional football, Belcher began a highly successful career as a restaurant entrepreneur.
In 1986, he founded the Lone Star Cafe restaurant with former Rough Rider teammate Larry Brune in the Ottawa suburb of Nepean.
In 2020, the Lone Star Texas Grill operated in over 20 locations across southern and eastern Ontario, including seven in the Greater Ottawa Area where it originated, as a family-style restaurant specializing in wood-fire grill fajitas, authentic Tex-Mex fare and frozen margaritas.