Bear Pascoe’s Second Dream

BEAR PASCOE KNEW HE HADN’T PLAYED WELL IN his last preseason game. The journeyman tight end only had a few weeks to learn the complex New England Patriots offense, so he understood there was a chance he’d get cut again. When he saw someone from the team’s front office making his way around the locker room the morning after his bad game, Pascoe started packing up his stuff. His career as a professional football player was over.

That was 2016, and by then Pascoe — who’s 6-foot-5 and north of 260 pounds — had been cut by