08/29/2022
Like a long snapper, your benefits are working if no one notices them; when they simply just work. People only know the name of the long snapper when the ball goes over the kicker’s head or rolls back to the holder causing a missed field goal. The reason why those are rare is because the long snapper toils away in obscurity practicing his craft obsessively and constantly, while thinking about the next snap, partially with a constant fear that the next snap will result in disaster…productively paranoid, if you will. They practice and toil so much, partially to avoid the embarrassment it will cause them, but also for the drastic impact a bad snap can have on the entire team.
The long snapper on a football team is a thankless, tedious, difficult, skilled, and overlooked position that is incredibly important for the success of the team as a whole. My son is a long snapper, a pretty good one. Despite my reservations about him playing football, I’m glad he did. There’s ...
