TomBradyLover911

The duality of man

[MY NAME IS MY NAME 🇺🇸🪮 @ctreid89]

Kevin Garnett on how NBA refs used to officiate… you can hear the difference.

[College Football Campus Tour @cfbcampustour]

Known as the ‘Jewel of the Mountains’, Mountaineer Field was home to West Virginia football from 1924 to 1979

It was built with 34,000 seats, double the size of Morgantown’s population in 1924

Demolished in 1987, its location & setting make it an all-time historic bucket list🏟️

[Joel Sawyer @joeldavidsawyer]

Nothing has ever made me prouder to be an American.

[TomBradyLover911 @DatDudeBW__]

Old man yelling at cloud ass take

[CFB Home @CFBHome]

Can we get people who grind and actually cover the sport more exposure?

[mr_eggs 🇵🇸 @scrumble_eggs]

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers.

[bart @soxbart]

“It’s filled with popcorn.”

Yeah not falling for that. Literally how they tricked Troy.

[Derrico Henrio @derrico_henrio]

Brits: “Oi bruv why does this Wawld Cop have to be played in stewpid Amoorica”

Some German dudes driving through the heart of the American South:

[Magills @magills_]

Europeans discovering Anderson, IN

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

Today in 1973, the greatest horse race in history was run.

Secretariat won the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths to become the Triple Crown winner and set a world record time that has never been beaten!

🎥: CBS Broadcast

[Pat McAfee @PatMcAfeeShow]

WE'RE HEADING TO THE COLLEGE BASEBALL WORLD SERIES TO WATCH @WVUBaseball..

We will be LIVE from Omaha on Friday #PMSLive

[TomBradyLover911 @DatDudeBW__]

This guy keeps schizo posting about the Vrabel/Russini mess like it’s watergate. Seriously scroll through his page it’s insane lol

[Tony Farmer @Tonysmarkettips]

https://t.co/jTRAQiXUDu

[Upstate Trash @Upstate_Trash]

The English are on here moaning about everything and making school shooting jokes, meanwhile this German dude is having the time of his life.

[Scott Van Pelt @notthefakeSVP]

If anyone can take down LSU’s record for Jell-O shots, it’s you.

I believe in you. Have a time, Mountaineers.

[ESPN @espn]

Take it all in, West Virginia 💛

For the first time ever, those country roads lead straight to Omaha‼️

[West Virginia Football @WVUfootball]

The time has come.

We’re retiring 5⃣.

[Jed Drenning @TheSignalCaller]

In its history, earth has been home to an estimated 117 billion people. Only one of them has started and won four bowl games.

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

84 years ago today, a pilot running out of fuel made a decision that won the Pacific War. Most Americans have never heard his name.

June 4, 1942. Six months after Pearl Harbor, Japan's navy is undefeated. Four of the carriers that burned Pearl, Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu, are steaming toward Midway to finish off the US Pacific Fleet.

At 7:52 AM, Wade McClusky launches from USS Enterprise leading 32 Dauntless dive bombers. Here's the detail nobody mentions: McClusky is a fighter pilot. He'd been given the air group weeks earlier and had barely flown a dive bomber in combat. Now he's leading every SBD the Enterprise has at the most important target in the Pacific.

9:20 AM. He arrives at the intercept point where the Japanese fleet is supposed to be.

Empty ocean. Nothing for miles.

The Japanese had turned. Nobody knew where. And now McClusky owns the worst math problem in naval aviation: his fuel is bleeding away, and every minute he keeps searching, he condemns more of his own pilots to ditch in open water where nobody will find them.

Doctrine is clear. Turn back.

McClusky keeps going. He works a search pattern, squeezing miles out of dying fuel tanks.

9:55 AM. Far below, a single Japanese destroyer is cutting a white scar across the ocean at flank speed. It's the Arashi, racing to rejoin the fleet after depth-charging the American submarine Nautilus. Think about that. A failed sub attack is about to give away the entire Japanese navy.

McClusky reads the wake like an arrow and follows it.

10:02 AM. The horizon fills with the entire Japanese strike force. Four carriers, their decks crammed with planes being refueled and rearmed. Fuel lines snaking everywhere. Bombs stacked in the open.

And here's the miracle: the sky above them is empty. Minutes earlier, American torpedo squadrons had attacked at sea level and been annihilated. Torpedo 8 lost all 15 planes. One survivor, Ensign George Gay, watched what came next while hiding under his seat cushion in the water. Those doomed pilots dragged every Japanese fighter down to the waves. The door upstairs was wide open.

10:22 AM. McClusky pushes over from 14,500 feet. Both squadrons follow him down onto Kaga. It's actually a mistake, doctrine said split the targets, but Lt. Dick Best catches it mid-dive, pulls out with two wingmen, and goes after Akagi alone. His single bomb pierces the flight deck into the packed hangar. It's enough.

By 10:28, Kaga, Akagi, and Soryu, the third hit simultaneously by Yorktown's bombers, are floating infernos. Six minutes. Three carriers that attacked Pearl Harbor, gone. Hiryu follows them to the bottom that evening.

The cost of McClusky's gamble was real. Many Enterprise bombers never made it home, some shot down, others swallowed by the sea when their tanks ran dry. McClusky himself was jumped by two Zeros on the way out, took five bullets through his shoulder, and still flew his shot-up Dauntless back to the Enterprise.

Admiral Nimitz said McClusky's decision "decided the fate of our carrier task force and our forces at Midway." Japan never won another major battle.

One borrowed pilot. One destroyer's wake. One choice to keep flying when every gauge said go home.

[Patrick J. Wolf @PatrickJWolf]

Ladies and gentlemen, it’s Friday.