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Southern Cal's backup long snapper is blind
Posted on 9/2/17 at 8:19 pm
Posted on 9/2/17 at 8:19 pm
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Posted on 9/2/17 at 8:20 pm to PublixSubs
Legally blind or blind blind?
Posted on 9/2/17 at 8:21 pm to saturday
Since the age of 12.
Posted on 9/2/17 at 8:22 pm to PublixSubs
This kid has been on the make you cry segment of game day for years
Posted on 9/2/17 at 8:24 pm to CE Tiger
I knew who this thread was about before I ever clicked on it. So awesome. Hope that young man earns his degree from a school with the caliber of USC.
Posted on 9/2/17 at 8:26 pm to PublixSubs
That's absolutely awesome. Wow
Posted on 9/2/17 at 8:26 pm to CE Tiger
I want to make the joke, "I had not seen that." But seems shitty, especially since I already posted a blind link.
Posted on 9/2/17 at 8:26 pm to saturday
If he's blind blind, he's still legally blind. He'll, how do you get illegally blind?
Posted on 9/2/17 at 8:29 pm to PublixSubs
I didn't see it mentioned earlier.
Posted on 9/2/17 at 8:30 pm to saturday
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Legally blind or blind blind?
He had both eyes removed - one at 10 months old and one at 12 years old, so I'd assume he's blind blind.
He was on Gameday and Tom Rinaldi a couple of times during the Pete Caroll years.
Posted on 9/2/17 at 8:37 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Yea, he was on the make a wish deal years ago, before he had the last surgery that took his last eye. Dude was a huge USC fan and it's awesome that he made the team.
Posted on 9/2/17 at 8:48 pm to saturday
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That's absolutely awesome. Wow
Posted on 9/2/17 at 8:49 pm to saturday
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Legally blind or blind blind?
Stevie Wonder blind
Posted on 9/2/17 at 8:58 pm to PublixSubs
Jake Olson. They did a Gameday segment on him when he was in middle school and then did a follow up on him while a few years later. Great story all around.
Posted on 9/2/17 at 9:03 pm to saturday
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Legally blind or blind blind?
As in he has no real eyes. Both removed due to cancer.
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Olson was born with retinoblastoma, a form of eye cancer, and lost his left eye when he was 10 months old. In 2009, at age 12, he learned he needed surgery to remove his right eye, which would completely cost him his vision.
Around that time, the lifelong USC fan developed close ties with the Trojans program, coached then by Pete Carroll. Olson traveled with the team for a game at Notre Dame and spent the night before his surgery at USC watching practice.
This post was edited on 9/2/17 at 9:04 pm
Posted on 9/2/17 at 9:14 pm to PublixSubs
My best friend is blind and it's a tough life
Posted on 9/2/17 at 9:15 pm to LSUTANGERINE
The cynic in me usually sees a story like this and thinks publicity stunt. It is so refreshing to see Southern Cal fully embrace this kid throughout the years.
Posted on 9/2/17 at 9:29 pm to SCLibertarian
This is a short 6:59 segment on him dating back to early childhood and when Pete Carroll and the team took him under their wings.
LINK
He spent the last night before his surgery to remove his remaining eye with the Trojans. Six days after the surgery, he was back on the practice field cheering on USC.
But well worth it
Post game interview with him
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He spent the last night before his surgery to remove his remaining eye with the Trojans. Six days after the surgery, he was back on the practice field cheering on USC.
But well worth it Post game interview with him
This post was edited on 9/2/17 at 9:36 pm
Posted on 9/2/17 at 11:40 pm to BowDownToLSU
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My best friend is blind and it's a tough life
Deaf people are now getting opportunities with cochlear implants.
I hope that something can happen for blind people.
I wish I was smart enough to be a doctor or researcher and cure "blindness".
Posted on 9/3/17 at 2:34 am to PublixSubs
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Southern Cal's backup long snapper is blind
He might have a career calling balls and strikes in MLB games.
But back to the subject at hand, that dude has more courage and determination in his little finger than I have in my entire body. All the best to him.
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