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Jaffe: How retired Paul Rabil remains in sport’s driver’s seat

By Chuck JaffeOctober 15, 2021

Premier Lacrosse League co-founder Paul Rabil signs autographs prior to a game at Gillette Stadium last June 1. (Getty Images)

Pam, the woman in the next seat, was certain she knew the young man I was talking to before the plane had boarded, but she couldn’t place him.

He was tall and striking, 6-foot-3 and with a posture and athletic gait that suggested he was something special without even trying to be.

Yet he was unassuming, carrying a backpack, sporting shaggy hair, mostly interested in whatever he was reading or listening to. He was sitting in coach, a few rows ahead of us.

“Don’t tell me,” she said, racking her brain. “But I know I have seen him and that he’s famous and that my kids know who he is.”

Tags: Boston Cannons, Johns Hopkins, PLL, state of the game

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