After a solid career at the University of Utah, offensive lineman Jesse Boone has bounced around different professional football leagues looking for a steady roster spot. After stints with two NFL teams, an Arena League team and an NFL Europe team, Boone is now the starting center for the Las Vegas Locos of the new United Football League . Between games, Boone took some time to share his football experiences with Active.com .
Your bags are rarely unpacked in professional football. Take us through your career since graduating from Utah in 2006.
I went to the Cincinnati Bengals as a rookie free agent. Then I got cut in the middle of training camp, sent home. I took the first job that came up which was with the Utah Blaze of the (Arena Football League). I went to training camp with them, and about a week before training camp ended I got a call from NFL Europe and the Rhein Fire and they said they wanted me to come out there. I thought that at the time it was a better opportunity for me to get back to the NFL. I asked (the Blaze) to be released and they released me so I went out to Europe and another training camp.
My year started in February. I did a full month of training camp, then a full month of training camp in Europe then a full 10-week season and then came home for about a two-week break before the Oakland Raiders called me in for a training camp. I made their practice squad and I was there for an entire season. I did the math and it was 50 straight weeks of in-season football.
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