Jon Dorenbos continues to ‘wow’ the judges on America’s Got Talent..
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Eagles long-snapper Jon Dorenbos wows ‘AGT’ judges, teammates with magic..
PHILADELPHIA – Simon Cowell isn’t all that intimidating – not when you line up across from angry 300-pound men for a living.
That’s what Philadelphia Eagles long snapper Jon Dorenbos does during his day job. Dorenbos, 35, has been snapping on punts and placekicks for 14 NFL seasons, the past 10 with the Eagles. Normally, he gets noticed only when something goes wrong.
But Dorenbos got noticed Tuesday night for something that went very right.
He appeared on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent,” braving a panel of Cowell, Howie Mandel, Mel B and Heidi Klum. Dorenbos performed card tricks that had the often skeptical judges wide-eyed in wonder.
The judges weren’t alone. Dorenbos’ teammates were watching, and why not? They have seen him perform spontaneously in the locker room over the years.
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…