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Football Is Only the Latest Triumph for Blind USC Long Snapper Jake Olson

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What if all you really knew was fighting a battle so many have lost, a daily grind of what's next that overwhelms everything every day? What would life be?

Let me introduce you, everyone, to life.

Big, bold, beautiful life.

Jake Olson was born with a rare form of cancer of the retina, retinoblastoma, which destroys the ability to see. When he was 10 months old, it took the sight from his left eye. Then when he was 12 years old, he lost sight in his right eye.

But what happened along the road to blindness isn't what you might expect.