Lonnie Paxton
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Leonidas E. Paxton III born March 13, 1978 in Orange, CA to Karyn and Lonie Paxton III, he is the Long Snapper for the New England Patriots. He has helped the Patriots win 3 Super Bowls. Paxton is the oldest of 6 (he has 2 brothers and 3 foster brothers and sisters). He has worked with the Shriners Hospitals for Children in Davis, CA.
Career
When Paxton was a kid growing up in southern California, he and his father would attend LA Rams, where his father, a retired construction worker and a football fan to the core, had season tickets and it just so happens that their seats were right next to where the long snappers would practice during the game. Lonie heeded his father's advice while growing up to work on all facets of his game. When he reached high school, he earned his team's long snapping position and has excelled at the position ever since. Graduated in 1996 from Centennial High School were he served as team captain, the school retired Lonie number, 66, on December 28, 2005. He majored in communications at CSUS, Corona, CA where he played for the Hornets as Long Snapper, Offensive Line and Guard. He earned Rookie of the Year honors as a freshman, junior of the year and lineman of the year as a senior. Paxton was drafted by the New England Patriots as a rookie free agent on April 19, 2000. He has played both offensive and defensive starter for three seasons.
Paxton has snapped on nine of Adam Vinatieri’s game winning field goals over the past four seasons, including his game-winning 48-yarder at the end of Super Bowl XXXVI. He made snow angels fashionable after Adam Vinatieri kicked the 23-yard field goal in overtime that gave the Patriots a 16-13 victory over Oakland Raiders which put them in the 2001 AFC championship game. While all of New England danced in delirium, Paxton lay down in the end zone on the powdered snow and made a snow angel, like a little kid who just discovered school was canceled for the day, flapping his tattooed arms up and down. Afterwards he told reporters he promised his family he would. He repeated his victory snow angel on the Louisiana Superdome turf after Vinatieri's kick beat the St. Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI.
In 2003, Lonie established the Active Force Foundation, a non-profit organization that designs and donates special sports equipment to physically challenged athletes.
Trivia
- Favorite football team growing up were the LA Rams
- Football hero as a kid: Kevin Greene and Jackie Slater
- Most admired living people are his mother and father
- Dedicated the first Super Bowl win to his father
- He is half Greek on his father's side[link]
- Dream car is a Monster Truck
- Favorite movie Pulp Fiction, music Pennywise and Slightly Stoopid
- He enjoy's wakeboarding, snowboarding, fishing, cars, dirt bikes and surfing
- Favorite Scooby Snacks and Carne Asada
- Craziest ambition is to be an x-games athlete or a rock star
- Pre-game superstitions/rituals are: listening to the same loud punk music and getting to the field 2 1/2 hours early to stretch
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