New England Patriots sign North Dakota pizza store employee to practice team
Sebastian Gutierrez worked at a pizza shop in North Dakota while waiting for his shot in the NFL
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}From the pizza shop to the Patriots, an NFL hopeful from North Dakota was signed to the practice squad on Wednesday.
Sebastian Gutierrez, a 6-foot-6 offensive lineman, played football at Minot State and was later waived by the Denver Broncos.
While he was working and waiting for his next shot in the NFL, he got a job at Uncle Maddio's Pizza in Minot, North Dakota.
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A former employee at Uncle Maddio's Pizza in Minot, North Dakota, was signed to the New England Patriots. (Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
"I saw him behind the line making pizzas and I just, I thought my manager Denise must have hired someone to head off security, I guess," Losson Leonard, owner of Uncle Maddio's, said via KFYR.
Gutierrez got a job at the pizza shop and worked "two, three days a week," according to Leonard, when the football player was not busy training.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"I think he's a great young man and I wish him the best. I think he'll do well," Leonard said. "I think once they let him in the door, he'll never come out, I think he'll have a great career in the NFL."
Sebastian Gutierrez joined Bill Belichick's New England Patriots as a member of the practice squad. (Stacy Revere/Getty Images)
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Gutierrez now has a new profession as a member of the practice squad on the New England Patriots.