![]() ![]() I can’t go anywhere and not make time to talk to people, like at the hardware store, my plumbing supplies, bars, supermarket. “It’s unbelievable the support, the friends, the family, the fan base. The offers and the deals, it’s overwhelming. It’s like Italian Mania,” said Tom, who runs a plumbing and heating service in New Jersey. The Giants and the fan base have rallied around the 25-year-old rookie who has pride in his Italian heritage and Jersey upbringing and who has led a pretty poor Giants roster to two straight wins after a 2-8 start to the season. On Tuesday, Tommy made an appearance at PrimoHoagies in Wayne (N.J.), just six miles north of Cedar Grove, and about 3,000 people showed up, Tom estimated, with a line wrapping around the corner of the strip mall where the restaurant is located. Three starts and two wins into his NFL career, Tommy DeVito has become a New Jersey sensation. “I said, ‘If you ever play it and make it here, you’ll be a folk hero.’” “That’s why I told him to do it,” Tom told Illini Inquirer. Oh, and if the quarterback who oozes loud, Jersey swagger succeeded? The natives would adore him. If Tommy’s stay at his first NFL stop wasn’t long, he didn’t have to worry about paying off living arrangements. ![]() When Tommy DeVito was mulling over his NFL options, his father, Tom, offered him some advice: stay home.Īfter going undrafted last spring, Tommy, who spent his last season of college at Illinois, had a more immediately lucrative offer from the Washington Commanders as well as offers from the Pittsburgh Steelers and Los Angeles Rams, but Tom saw value in Tommy starting his career at home with the New York Giants where Tommy, whose family lives in Cedar Grove (N.J.) just 11 miles from the Giants facility in East Rutherford (N.J.), already had a place to live and a family to support him. ![]()
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