Lad is a montreal native who just retired after long snapping 16 years for the dallas cowboys. But even a cowboy's fan will not know him by that name. He was on the big side for a long snapper, round, 275 pounds. His first anifel season was two thousand five.
Adam Smith famously argued that specialization is the key to prosperity. In the N.F.L., the long snapper is proof of that argument. Just in time for the Super Bowl, here’s everything there is to know about a job that didn’t used to exist.