Von Miller reveals after Texas A&M coach Mike Sherman suspended him, he packed everything he owned into his truck and started driving to Florida to transfer, when he called his he dad told him not to quit, so he turned around and led the nation with 17.5 sacks the next season
“I had everything I owned in this blanket, and I went to my car. I threw it in the back and I’m driving home. I called my daddy. I’m like, ‘Daddy, man, I’m leaving. Coach Sherman kicked me off the team. I ain’t coming back until I do this and that.’”
“I’m thinking my dad is going, ‘All right, we’re going to find something else.’ He said, ‘Pull that truck over, turn around, and go back to school. You’re not quitting.’”
“I was like, ‘That was not the answer I was looking for.’ He was like, ‘You’re not just about to quit when it gets hard. You’re going to turn that truck back around. You’re going to go back to school and you’re going to fix it.’”
“I had tears going down my face. I was like, ‘Man, this is going to be so hard to fix all of this.’ I turned around. We had a meeting. Coach Sherman told my dad the exact same thing that he told me, and my dad agreed with Coach Sherman.”
“There was nowhere I could go. I just had to face the music. I had to face the truth. That spring was a hard one, but I got my grades up. I made it to all my classes. I went through the checklist of everything Coach Sherman wanted me to do.”
“That following year, my junior year, was the best year that I had up until that day. I led the nation in sacks. I had 17 and a half sacks. My life had totally changed. That was all a testament to running straight through the storm. The shortest way through the storm is straight. I put my head down and I worked, and my life totally changed that offseason.”
Rumors started to circulate the reigning Big 12 Offensive Freshman of the Year had just moved to Norman.
Bob Stoops was one of the many who heard the rumors Baker Mayfield left Texas Tech and enrolled at OU, but he had never spoken to him or granted him an opportunity to join the team.
Mayfield showed up at a team dinner and introduced himself to Stoops. Shortly after, he was granted an opportunity to walk-on at his dream school.
Stoops said at the time it was, “maybe the strangest thing that’s ever happened in my coaching career.”
Today it adds to the legendary story. Mayfield had to sit out the entire 2014 season but won the starting QB job heading into 2015. It only took two games for the entire OU fanbase to fall in love with No. 6, after an incredible comeback win at Tennessee.
Mayfield was a lifelong OU fan that got to wear the jersey he always dreamed about. That came across with his play and was one of the many reasons he was such a fan favorite.
During his three years as a starter, he won three Big 12 titles, made the College Football Playoff twice and won the 2017 Heisman Trophy. He was also the No. 1 overall pick in the 2018 NFL Draft.
Mayfield’s college football journey started as a walk-on but ended as arguably the best QB in OU history.
His legacy is forever cemented in Heisman Park just steps away from Owen Field.
Baker Mayfield days until kickoff in Norman.
This is one of the last Revolutionary War veterans in New York, photographed in 1862 in the final year of his life. He is sitting in front of a fort he built himself.
Nicholas Veeder enlisted in 1777 at sixteen, in the Albany County militia. He came home, built boats, and lived a long quiet life. But as the men of the Revolution died off one by one, Veeder did something about it.
He built a small stone fort behind his house and filled it with muskets, weapons, and relics of the war he'd collected for decades. He turned the loft into a museum. People came from all over to take his tours, where he'd hold up the guns and tell the stories himself. He led parades carrying a Liberty flag.
He died in 1862, a few months after his 100th birthday.
Photographed in 1996, a very different Union Station than you see today. At the time, the building stood abandoned, in disrepair, and under threat of demolition.
Later that year, voters in Jackson, Clay, and Platte counties in Missouri and Johnson County in Kansas approved a one-eighth-cent bi-state sales tax to restore and redevelop Union Station and create a science museum. The tax raised $118 million toward the total $250 million project. Its passage is believed to have been the first of its kind in the history of the United States.
Thanks to the historic bi-state tax and substantial donor support, Union Station was saved from demolition and restored to its former glory, reopening to the public on November 10, 1999.
HEARTWARMING: When #NFL icon Shannon Sharpe surprised his brother Sterling Sharpe with the news that he is being inducted into the Hall of Fame.
“Welcome bro!”
“To your house?”
“To the Pro Football Hall of Fame, class of 2025”
A special moment 👏❤️
John Calipari shares one of the secrets to reaching your potential.
"If you're not a grinder, you're never going to max out."
Grinders earn it.
They choose to earn it every day through their work ethic, discipline, and consistency.