Pat McAfee says his dad refused to pay $1500 for the camp so he gambled a borrowed $100 into a bigger scholarship and the NFL
“It was going to end up costing 1,500 bucks. My dad, a truck driver, went into working in a warehouse. Mom’s a secretary. Like 1,500 bucks in a four-day period is not a feasible thing. Dad, I think, told me to actually go f*ck myself…”
There was a big game happening in the basement of an Italian restaurant in the town that we grew up in. Bigger blinds, bigger antes, bigger pots. But I got a hundred bucks from one of my friends that has money.”
“I went in there and I turned it into 1,400 bucks. I left at like 3:30, 4 a.m. And I met my dad when he was waking up, and he was like, ‘Where the f*ck have you been?’ And I gave him the money. Went down to the camp. Ended up winning the camp. Got a scholarship to West Virginia the next morning.”
“If that doesn’t happen, do I go to West Virginia? Do I end up in the NFL? Probably not.”
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Remembering the late, great Dolly, who brought joy, comfort and inspiration to so many - including the millions of children given free books through her Imagination Library. We will always ❤️ you.
In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.
She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.
The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.
She handed out the checks herself.
In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.
When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.
You've probably heard that part.
Here's the part you haven't:
The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.
Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.
She built her county an entire hospital.
She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.
In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.
Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.
In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.
And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.
She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.
She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.
Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸
So dudes playing in the NFL can come back and play without suspension? You better free Arion Carter immediately!!!!!!!@Vol_Football
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Joey Aguilar - Nearly perfect completion percentage
Josh Dobbs - Continued veteran success, especially rushing
Joe Milton - Three-touchdown day
Hendon Hooker - Secured the Titans' win
Not a bad week of football for some former Tennessee gunslingers, if I do say so myself!
Breaking: The Browns are waiving tight end Dae’Quan Wright and, if he clears waivers, he has an agreement in place for the 2026 season to play for LSU, his agents told @AdamSchefter.
Wright is believed to be the first player who could play for an NFL team, and then go back to play in college.
So glad to see this guy succeeding! He has the right mentality and the athleticism he just needed the right people around him who helped correct the accuracy issues.
Joe Milton III has put the NFL ON NOTICE that he deserves a shot as a starting QB.
Through two weeks of the preseason, arguably no other QB has better numbers:
• 21/28 (75% completion percentage)
• 286 passing yards (leads team)
• 12 rushing yards
• 4 total TD’s (3 pass, 1 rush)
• 0 INT’s
• 135.0 average passer rating
Milton has also reportedly “significantly improved” his accuracy compared to years prior.
The 2024 6th-round pick looks like he could INSTANTLY upgrade a lot of QB rooms 😳