Magic, not football, saved Jon Dorenbos…
By Mike Florio for NBC Sports..
You’ve probably heard of Jon Dorenbos (long snapper for the Philadelphia Eagles). But you probably don’t know his story. You should.
At the age of 12, Jon’s father killed his mother. Jon found comfort not in football, but magic.
“I would record these magic specials on TV,” he tells Bryant Gumbel of HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. “And then I could put the VCR in late at night, and I could watch the magic shows, and I could try and figure them out. I would go in my room for hours and hours and hours. I would literally have a little flashlight. And my sister and I shared a room. And she’d fall asleep. And I’d click this flashlight on. And then all of a sudden I’d look over at the clock and it’s six in the morning and I gotta go to school at, like, 7:40… . It was this place that I could go that nothing else around me mattered. It gave me a purpose…