1,000 dreams will die by 4PM tomorrow
Okay thats a bit extreme but it got you here 😁
Good short mostly anecdotal article from ESPN on getting cut from the NFL. 32 teams have to get their rosters down from 90 to 53 by 4 PM tomorrow. Some interesting stories about guys whove hung around the league for years getting cut several times. For a lot of guys whove probably been the star player for almost all their lives this is the first time theyve had to deal with something like this.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/27483799/what-really-cut-nfl
This is from the end of the article
Arizona Cardinals special-teamer Dennis Gardeck got the tap last preseason. Gardeck, who was an undrafted rookie free agent, was in the locker room when a staff member came up to him, tapped him on the shoulder and said, "Scooby, come with me."
Wait, what?
The staff member had Gardeck confused with Scooby Wright, another 6-foot, long-haired linebacker.
"I was like, 'I'm not Scooby,' " Gardeck said. "I thought I was done."