How Joe Cardona went from almost-pilot to Patriots long-snapper
Briefly

"I wanted to go be 'Maverick' [from the Top Gun movies]. I wanted to fly jets. That's the life I wanted. I thought it'd be cool."
"My sitting height was too tall. ... I look at him and I'm like, 'Well, what's the big deal being over by a quarter of an inch?' He basically goes, 'Well, if you have to eject from your plane, not all of you is going to make it out."
'Hey, I'm going to get big and strong, put myself in position to be physically an NFL player.' That re-evaluation period of Cardona's life goals coincided with the start of his junior season with the football team, when he began to see a path to the NFL as a long snapper.
Read at Boston.com
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