TE Anthony Fasano finds second career in addiction treatment

[DKphin]

The 33-year-old tight end, who just wrapped up his 12th season in the NFL in his second stint with the Miami Dolphins, opened an all-male treatment center called “Next Chapter Addiction” in Delray Beach, Fla., in Dec. 2015. At the time of its conception, the 6-foot-4, 258-pound athlete with a business marketing degree from ND had no experience owning, operating and overseeing a small business. It was an unconventional step for a full-time professional athlete.
But Fasano was driven by his family to invest in his future.
“I had a family member hit rock bottom,” said Fasano, who declined to identify the family member to protect their privacy. “No one in the family knew he was into drugs or addicted, and he went missing. It was kind of a family panic situation. We all got nervous and sounded the alarms and looked for him, and seven days later his parents thought the worst.

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[Blackcreekbandit]

Fasano is the man. Old school lunch pail type of worker

 

[uk_dolfan]

Yea he has been doing this for years. Great guy

 

[sleek]

If we could win a few more games down the stretch I feel those addiction numbers would drop dramatically.

 

[finmann]

News to me, It's great to give back and make a difference.

 

[spiketex]

Fasano is still a good blocking Tight End but full marks to him for this business venture. He deserves success.
BTW - I saw in a recent article that New England does their own random drug testing of all players, coaches and all employees to identify any problems. We should have been doing that with our O-line Coach Foerster, who should probably have sought treatment from Fasano's facility.
Kind of ironic that Foerster was teaching Fasano the blocking techniques, because Fasano is the guy who could have helped identify Foerster's problem and how to resolve it.

 

[phintim]

Cool to see something positive like this out of the phins camp.

 

[John813]

In before he is arrested for insurance fraud.

(Not serious, but damn there are a lot of rehab centers popping up around here with good/bad results)

 

[tay0365]

Great for him, always a great story when you can give back, as you create your career after football.

To me Fasano is a great (not just good) 2nd TE. The man is one of the best blocking TE out there, and is still (amazingly), a very underrated pass-catching TE. If we can find an actual premium quality TE, this will be a fun offense when Tannehill comes back.

 

[El Calebra]

More money in rehabs than there is in football. SCAM!

 

[VBCheeseGrater]

Nice to hear him address the frauds out there, at least giving the impression he's trying to do it the right way.