Jarese Jordan

Just your average, friendly neighborhood gamer.

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

Garrett Wilson walked out of the stadium in Chicago and apologized to a 17 year old girl.

She had traveled all that way to watch him play, and he was sorry about how the day had gone.

Her mother says that apology is the reason she is back in school.

Here is the whole thing.

Her name is Riley Driskill. She is a senior in high school, and she was not even a Jets fan. She grew up on the Chiefs.

In September she lost her best friend.

After that she stopped sleeping. She stopped going to school. She stopped seeing the people she knew. Her mother, Becky, took time off work to be home with her.

Nobody in that house was looking to a football game to fix anything.

Now here is the part nobody could have arranged.

Becky's boss is a man named Kenny Wilson.

Kenny Wilson is Garrett's father.

He had passes for the game in Chicago against the Bears, and he offered them.

Becky asked her daughter if she wanted to go. Riley said "Of course." Then she asked one question.

"Am I going to see Garrett?"

They had met him one time before, at MetLife. She asked him to make a TikTok and he said yes. That was the entire relationship. One TikTok.

Understand who she was asking about. He came out of Ohio State and went 10th overall. He signed an extension this year worth 130 million dollars, with 90 million of it guaranteed, averaging over 31 million a year. No receiver in the history of the league had ever gotten that after only three seasons.

Men who sign those do not generally come looking for anybody in a tunnel.

So here is what happened when he came out of the players' exit.

He apologized to them.

Sorry you came all that way. Sorry it was that kind of day.

Then he hugged her. He put his arm around her for a picture. He signed her jersey.

All her mother could say was this.

"You are amazing."

Here is how Wilson explains it.

"Treat everyone how you want to be treated."

His own father describes him as "gracious and nice and loving."

Riley has gone to school every day since. She is around her friends again. She has started looking at colleges.

This is what her mother says about that.

"If it wasn't for him, she might still be in a dark room."

"It made her day. It brought life back into her."

Kenny told Garrett later what the whole thing had meant to her. Here is what Garrett said back.

"She made my day as well."

Now the honest part. One hug does not fix what happened to that girl, and her mother has never said it did. Riley had people around her and she is the one who got up every morning and went. And Wilson never told anybody about any of this. A reporter went and found it.

But a kid who had stopped leaving her own house traveled to another city to go watch a stranger play football.

And the stranger came out and told her he was sorry.

[FOX College Football @CFBONFOX]

🐻 @UCLAFootball HC Bob Chesney had his players ready to run through a wall before upsetting No. 13 Oregon

(via IG/westwoodbruin)

[Simmons @Simmons3765]

Optimus Prime narrates the Transformers Dark of the Moon intro - War for Cybertron scene - Transformers Dark of th Moon (2011)

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

Sophie responds to the article from @TheAthletic demanding Fever to drop her

"If you're going to live by the praise, you'll die by the hate.....I'm going to continue to do me.....suck it"

This is the appropriate response. We should all be more like this.

[Ohio State Football @OhioStateFB]

Zone 6 Congratulates JJ on the Triple Crown 👑

#DevelopedHere | @Jermiah_Smith1

[The Buckeye Nut @TheBuckeyeNut]

Class act by Ryan Day and the Ohio State football program. ❤️

The Buckeyes sent a letter to every patient at University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital.

Football is bigger than the game. 🏈❤

[Kirk Herbstreit @KirkHerbstreit]

Peter got to meet @CaitlinClark22!

[Angie Michelle @AnGdmedizzle]

My QB is preaching this morning.

[Sabrina Ionescu @sabrina_i20]

2.24.20= 2k 1k 1k
2+24=26 total triple doubles
8=total triple doubles this season so far
Your presence is felt. Just like we talked about... I HEAR YOU🐍🙏🏼
Thank you KB.

[TFHypeGuy @TFHypeGuy]

I actually can't believe it's been a month

[fahad @Fahad___2007]

The best duo ever

[Onii Chan @oniichanph]

For the first time in 40 years, Transformers Day arrives without the voice of Optimus Prime, Peter Cullen 🕊️

For more than four decades, Cullen’s unmistakable voice was inseparable from Optimus Prime, turning the Autobot leader into more than just a character. His voice gave Optimus strength, wisdom, compassion, and a sense of hope that became part of the identity of Transformers itself.

From the original 1980s series and The Transformers: The Movie to the modern films, Cullen continued returning to the character and introducing Optimus to new generations.

And now, for the first time, fans celebrate Transformers Day without the man whose voice helped define it.

But there is something fitting about remembering him today.

Every time Optimus speaks, every time a fan repeats one of his lines, and every time a new generation discovers Transformers, Peter Cullen is still part of that experience.

The first Transformers Day without Peter Cullen, but never the first without his legacy. Till all are one. 🕊️❤️

[canadianjacs @canadianjacs]

In celebration of #TransformersDay (Sept 17) - the legacy of iconic voice of Optimus Prime, Peter Cullen.
@transformers

[Rylie @Rylieparis05]

Do Utah Democrats understand that conservative speech is Free Speech?

[Akuago220 the Jungle Expeditioner @Akuago220]

I don't remember the last time I shed a tear in a movie theater...

Till all are One
#PeterCullen #Transformers #OptimusPrime

[crazy ass moments in Transformers history @TF_Moments]

Peter Cullen tribute!

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

POWERFUL: Legendary coach Nick Saban with an incredible message about PRAYING TO GOD.

“Do you pray to be blessed, or do you pray to be a blessing?”

“You can be a blessing to everybody that you meet… by the positive energy and attitude that you have”

🙏

[Prime @eepicprimee]

Finally got to the basketball part lol. Should've had a whole episode of this.