This Dude Is Still Begging For A Tryout Outside of Gillette?

FOXBOROUGH — Well before 6 a.m. Friday, Nick Caserio, the Patriots‘ tireless director of player personnel, has arrived at Gillette Stadium to begin the week’s final workday. This is according to Abiola Aborishade, who can tell you when many Patriots employees get to work, and this is despite the fact that Aborishade is not actually employed by the Patriots. He just wants to be. Very, very badly. So badly that he has beaten Caserio to the stadium Friday, and so desperately that he stands here — under the bridge at the intersection of Route 1 and Patriot Place — with a sales pitch written on a poster board, and the poster board duct taped to one of the bridge’s concrete pillars. Abiola Aborishade, a former standout receiver at Division III UMass Dartmouth, seeks a tryout with the Patriots. That is all. He has been out here practically every weekday since April 21, logging approximately 130 hours under the bridge or on the ramp to Route 1 north. He is, essentially, begging for a tryout. He’s cranking out two-a-days with his poster board, which reads “talented hardworking athlete hoping for a chance to prove myself.””I honestly was thinking three things could happen from this. The first thing is that they see me so often that they get sick and tired of me,” Aborishade says. “So they almost give up, give into it, because I’m not giving in. So they give in and they say, ‘OK, let’s see what this kid can do.’ The second thing is the people who drive around here, who work around here see me so often that they almost say, ‘hey, we want to see what he can do.'””And the third thing is they just leave me out here,” he says, laughing.

This dude is still standing outside Gillette? I blogged him like 3 weeks ago. He actually retweeted it and thanked me for the support. But I thought it was like a 1 day thing. Dude has been out there every day since April 21st? That is no joke. The Pats have to give this guy a look right? They have to. Anybody who wants a tryout at anything in life this bad deserves a look. I’m officially Team Aborishade. This has a Disney movie written all over it. And if the Pats won’t give him a look he should go try out for the Jets. They’ll do anything for a quick headline.