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After injuries to starting center Joe Fields and backup Guy Bingham, Pellegrini has become a needed commodity, though the football strike has temporarily delayed his chance to display his talents...
...disgruntled athlete nevertheless graduated from Harvard with respect rather than bitterness for the school's athletic department. As far as football goes, though, Pellegrini says he regrets his lack of communication with Restic. "That's probably as much my fault as his, though," he comments. "I learned a lot under him and have a good deal of respect for him and his assistants...
...Pellegrini continued training during his senior year, pausing momentarily in the winter to get married and pick up a business partner all in the same ceremony. He and his wife are in the rehabilitative real estate business of buying property and building or fixing houses for resale. The business supported him during his Olympic training, and he has kept it going. In fact, as he was interviewed in the Jets training camp on the grounds of Hofstra University, he was waiting for a call to close a deal...
...wife, a couple of old Crimson teammates, and a professional scout who encouraged Pellegrini to give the pros a shot. "I had always thought about it, but after the layoff, I had my doubts," he said. The Jets were one of three teams willing to give him a chance, and he reported to their training camp last summer...
...Royer, the Jets' Director of Pro Personnel, put Pellegrini's chances of making the team at 10,000 to one, but Pellegrini received some much overdue luck by injuring his back in last year's exhibition game against the Giants. Such an occurrence may not at first seem like luck, but it allowed the Jets to put Pellegrini on the shelf last year, and give him another shot this summer, at a time when his services were more in demand. He quickly recovered from the back injury and became a practice player with the Jets for all of last season...