NE Long-Snapper Makes LT
Foxnews reports that New England’s long-snapper made Navy Lieutenant.
New England Patriots long snapper Joe Cardona was promoted by the U.S. Navy from lieutenant junior grade to lieutenant on the 75th anniversary of D-Day on Thursday.
Cardona joined the Patriots before the start of the 2015 season and has played in every game since then. He’s managed to balance his football life with his military career.
We assume he is in the Navy Reserve since it would be difficult to be active duty and play in the NFL. That would be a balance!
Category: Politics
Had to be a HELL of day for him: Got promoted to Lieutenant AND got his Super Bowl ring, which is the LARGEST ever.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/26916281/patriots-receive-super-bowl-rings-largest-ever
How long before it’s too big to be called a ring? Just make tiaras and be done with it.
Goddamn it!!!
What I don’t understand is how after the academy he can go into the Naval Reserve vs. active duty. Roger Staubach (NFL) had to go four years active duty and so did David Robinson (NBA).
Did they change the rule and allow for people to go into the Naval Reserve or is this just until their professional sports career is over and they then have to do 4 years of active duty?
Special permission from Ray Mabus.
Jim Webb was the SECNAV who made David Robinson go active instead of playing in the NBA…basically said ‘you had the school, you pay it back’.
Robinson only did 2 years AD.
DOD changed rules a few years back, Have to do two years AD before being able to embark on pro career.
Don’t be forgetting this guy… Napoleon McCallum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_McCallum
Should have read: “NFL NE LS LT on D-DAY”
Most of us would have gotten it.
BZ LT. I can cheer for you despite you being Navy…and NFL. At least the Pats, far as I know, still act like Patriotic Americans…except for the owner who seems to prefer to “date” Asian girls. (not that there is anything wrong with that) (dodges a long snap and runs yelling GO ARMY!!!!!!!!BEAT NAVY!!!!!!!!!)
While the NFL was mentioned, I heard on WHTL 850AM, Florida that some of the “owners” of football teams are being pressured not to call themselves “owners” due to the fact that the name “owners” ran Plantations where slaves worked. I can’t imagine a slave football player making over a million dollars for playing football. Anyone here about this?? I tried researching this yesterday but could not come up with anything although it’s possible that the news is so new, it hasn’t made it to the social media yet.
You may have the leagues wrong.
The NBA is the league that is embroiled in a dispute over the term “owner.”
see: https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/nba-teams-reportedly-considering-moving-away-from-the-term-owner-after-draymond-greens-comments/
(It is one of many articles out there on the issue.)
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Da fuq? Don’t like working for an “owner”, then go put your skills to work elsewhere. See how much money you make with all your highly marketable skills. I’m sure the orange growers would like NBA players to be pickers. Don’t need a ladder to reach up and they’d be able to toss them oranges in a basket without dropping them.
Just the typical victim mentality. People own businesses, not the workers… you don’t see people who work construction, tech or hospitality getting their asses up in the air like Rikki Tikki Tavi when people own a plumping company, computer repair shop or McDonalds.
Most NFL Top College players are overweight by military standards.
With a few exceptions most big guys don’t have the endurance to meet military standards and they get injured too easy.
Carrying all that weight around is bad on the Joints.
The ones that serve and were NFL were all Backs or kickers.
Lets not forget this fellow.
Alejandro Villanueva Martínez (born 22 September 1988) is an American football offensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). Villanueva was a Captain in the United States Army, in which he served as an Army Ranger and was decorated with a Bronze Star for valor. He played college football for the Army Black Knights, being recruited at one position and playing three others during the course of his career. After serving three tours of duty in Afghanistan, he signed a contract with the Philadelphia Eagles on 5 May 2014, after working out in a regional showcase. After being waived by Philadelphia, he was signed by the Pittsburgh Steelers and is currently their starting left tackle. Villanueva has become the third Spaniard to play in the NFL after the Rodriguez brothers, Jess and Kelly.
He went into the Eagles Camp weighing 250… two months later he was at 340,,, ” Eating right”
So, that guy never paid for his school?
Where is the justice in that?