Jy Bond is taking a punt on getting an NFL contract
20.05.12
And for the past three years, this is exactly what Bond has done. This towering, thickset Melburnian – the son of 1970s Richmond star Graeme Bond, no less – quietly humping his swag around the US in a blur of playbooks, punts and promises. A journey of full NFL rosters and empty cardboard boxes.
There are four, maybe five, punters who live within a bee’s appendage of an NFL contract. Jy Bond is one of them.
Twice he has signed NFL contracts. Twice receiving a box before the season even began.
Yet still he persists.
This anonymous 32-year-old toiler, an Australian underdog story right down to the VB bottle opener on his keyring, kicks away knowing he’s only one eye-catching performance from that world where contemporaries drive BMWs, own Florida beach homes and, in the case of the Oakland Raiders’ Shane Lechler, earn $3 million a year.
Where every weekend at places like the Cowboys Stadium in Dallas, some 100,000 fans scream you through the longest 1.3 seconds in world sport.
Source: The Daily Telegraph