The voice on the other end of the telephone kept talking, but Mike Catapano couldn’t believe what he was hearing.
“You’re going to have to come in. And bring your playbook . . .”
It was “a numbers thing,” Catapano was told, as he stood inside his Kansas City apartment. Then came the final blow.
“We’re going to have to waive you.”
Just like that, his time with the Chiefs was over.
“My heart dropped,” the Bayville native said, recalling the September phone call from the organization that had drafted him. “I was kind of blindsided.