No matter the outcome of SuperBowl Sunday, Patriots wide receiver Bernard Reedy will be returning to the $11.00 job he held prior to the big game.
Pro Football Talk reports that Reedy, who was picked up by the Pats after the Bucs cut him this season, will return to Florida and resume his job at Care Ride. Reedy works as a driver that assists people with disabilities to get around.
“I used to think about a lot of the people I would pick up and the situations that they [were] in and the stories I heard. Some of the stories, the normal average person wouldn’t believe, but that stuff’s true,” Reedy said. “It’s just ironic that I’ve had a job like that in the situation that I was in. To be around positivity and listen to people go through what I went through — I went through it sportswise and they went through it in life. It was tough to want to play and to want to be on somebody’s team and [I] just [didn’t] get the break yet, but I also thought, ‘What about the people on life support? What about the people who can’t walk that want to walk again?’ That stuff’s way more serious than running around and playing football.”
Reedy will become a free agent once the current season ends. In the event he remains with the Pats, or picked up by another team, he says he will continue the work in the off-season.