When Department of Sanitation workers went on strike in February 1968, Harry Nespoli was hard at work. On the gridiron.
Nespoli, who had graduated from John Jay High School in Brooklyn a few years earlier, went to college in Kansas, and starred as a running back. He then played with the minor league Bridgeport Jets, the New York Jets’ minor league affiliate in Connecticut. By his telling, he nearly made it to the pro squad that, with Broadway Joe Namath at the helm, was in its heyday. But a knee injury — and a disagreement about pay — derailed his chance at a pro career.
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