Football: Happy Thanksgiving for long snappers

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It’s Thanksgiving, which means long snapper coach Chris Rubio has a message for his pupils: Eat, eat, eat.

Here’s his e-mail: ‘I just wanted to wish each and every one of you a Happy Thanksgiving from my family to yours.... Great day for all of my long snappers to put on some weight (you know who you are, men).’

I don’t think his fellow coach, Chris Sailer, will be telling his kickers to put on weight.

But of course, the long snappers protect the kickers.

Happy Thanksgiving.

-- Eric Sondheimer