TRICK PLAYS OFF THE FIELD
Saturday, January 8, 2011 at 10:17PM
Dodd Vickers

Philadelphia Eagles snapper Jon Dorenbos gets some space in the Los Angeles Times, but in this case it is for his skills off of the field as a magician and not for what he gets paid $1 MIL per year to do on the gridiron. 

A dozen men are huddled around him, transfixed. That's not because he's Jon Dorenbos, long snapper for the Philadelphia Eagles. It's that he's holding a deck of playing cards, effortlessly riffling them with one hand, sometimes shooting them to the other in a graceful arch.

Fanning the cards, Dorenbos has one of the men select one, sign it with a felt-tip marker, then put it back in the deck. More shuffles, a few flourishes, and the card disappears — only to wind up tucked in the watchband of a perplexed spectator.

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