Denver Native (Carol)
05-13-2015, 08:22 PM
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- He's a 28-year-old British citizen, a native of Bermuda, who has painstakingly kept a football dream alive.
He's worked 60-hour weeks to pay his bills, worked out in the beams of car headlights and put up videos of himself kicking on YouTube to attract the NFL’s attention.
But here is Karl Schmitz, the Denver Broncos' oldest rookie, a 6-foot-4, 210-pound package of hope, confidence and pragmatism. Schmitz wants to be an NFL kicker, and seven years after his last college football game, the Broncos are giving him a chance.
rest - http://espn.go.com/blog/denver-broncos/post/_/id/13197/broncos-hopeful-seven-years-from-his-last-game-finally-gets-a-chance
He's worked 60-hour weeks to pay his bills, worked out in the beams of car headlights and put up videos of himself kicking on YouTube to attract the NFL’s attention.
But here is Karl Schmitz, the Denver Broncos' oldest rookie, a 6-foot-4, 210-pound package of hope, confidence and pragmatism. Schmitz wants to be an NFL kicker, and seven years after his last college football game, the Broncos are giving him a chance.
rest - http://espn.go.com/blog/denver-broncos/post/_/id/13197/broncos-hopeful-seven-years-from-his-last-game-finally-gets-a-chance