Family Helps Martinek Make Giant Decision
Hopatcong's football star consulted those closest to him before making the biggest decision of his life.
It was late, and inside it was loud. The downstairs living room, filled with family and close friends, had grown from a chatty gathering to a party where the conversations were boisterous and predicated on the same question: Where was he going? Outside, the family talked. Because for Joe Martinek to do this, it had to be the same way he made his last life-changing decision—the choice to take a full Rutgers football scholarship after leaving Hopatcong High School as the state's all-time leading rusher. He needed his family's advice. So when the discussion ended and they walked into the kitchen, Martinek went into another room to have a final talk with his agent, Don Henderson. When he emerged a bit later and told his family he had signed …
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Rich Smith
5:45 pm on Monday, April 30, 2012
Have to agree with amazed78, there’s plenty of good in our town and Joe and his family are part of it. Congratulations, you make Hopatcong proud. Go get ‘um Joe!! more ›