Along with scouting reports on hundreds of football players, you’ll find a tennis ball inside the draft room of the NFL team that calls itself the Los Angeles Chargers.
For General Manager Tom Telesco, the fuzzy orb is a potential stress reliever.
“Draft day is very quiet — unless somebody goes (to another team) right before you pick that I wanted or we wanted, and I take a tennis ball and throw it against the wall,” Telesco was saying on Monday. “But, you snap out of that pretty quick.
“Hey,” the buttoned-up Telesco said of his inner McEnroe, “it’s all part of the process.