Cheltenham graduate Jeremy Sable lines up on the offensive line for the Tel Aviv Sabres in a football league in Israel.
With high school football games being played almost always on Friday nights – which, in the Jewish religion, is known as the Sabbath, or “Shabbat” – Jeremy Sable was unable to remain on the football program following his freshman year of high school.
Growing up in a Jewish home, Sable, 23, was brought up by his parents to follow his religion, which prevented the Northeast Philadelphia-born and Cheltenham High School product from playing the sport he loved so much and participated in while on the freshman team.
Sable wrestled in eighth grade, but with most of those matches also coming on Saturdays, Jeremy had to find another sport. After ninth grade, his parents forced him to stop playing football and to choose a sport that didn’t interfere with his religion, which is when Sable turned to baseball. Even though Sable played baseball for his final three years of high school and was one of three captains on the team, he still wanted to play football. Now, several years post-high school and after graduating from the University of Maryland in 2009, Sable is finally able to fulfill that desire and play the physical sport that he loves so much.