Jon Atwater

Husband, Father, Web Developer, Disc Golf junkie, Dirtbiker, and Offroader. That pretty much sums it up.

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@CollinRugg Incredible heart ❤️ 🇺🇸

[Nick Tran | The Refined Savage @realNickTran]

Gene Wu started it. I’m addressing it.

I’m tired of Americans being told they don’t belong in their own country.

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@Shawn_Farash Incredible impression. Sounds just like him

[DKelly 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 @1Nicdar]

130 schools said no.
He led the losingest program in college football history to a national championship anyway.
Fernando Mendoza was a 2-star recruit from Miami.

He tried to walk on at his hometown school. They passed.
So did FIU.
So did FAU.
So did everyone else.

At 17, he was sitting in his bedroom, crying over a silent recruiting inbox—after driving to 18 camps with his dad and sending highlights to more than 100 programs.
Not one FBS offer.
His only option? Yale. No scholarship. No NFL path.

Everyone told him to be “realistic.”
“Know your place.”
“Be grateful.”
He didn’t listen.
Because Mendoza understood something most people miss:
The worst outcome isn’t failing.
It’s never getting the chance to try.

Two weeks before signing day in 2022, his phone rang.
Cal needed a body. One offer. Out of 134 schools.
He took it.
He arrived as the third-string quarterback.
Spent a year on the scout team.
Lost his first four starts.
Got sacked 41 times behind a broken offensive line.

Still got up. Every time.
Then Cal brought in a transfer instead of building around him.
So Mendoza left the only school that had ever said yes.
He transferred to Indiana—the losingest program in college football history.

People laughed.
“Career suicide.”
“Graveyard program.”
“Nobody wins there.”
One coach told him something different:
“I’m going to make you the best Fernando Mendoza possible.”
That was enough.
Mendoza wasn’t just playing for football.
His mother has battled multiple sclerosis for 18 years.

Before every snap, he thought of her.
“My mother is my why.”
Indiana went 16–0.
Beat six Top-10 teams.
Won their first Big Ten title since 1945.
Mendoza threw 41 touchdowns.
Won the Heisman—first in school history.
First Cuban-American to ever do it.

Then came the title game.
Miami. Near his hometown.
Fourth-and-4. Season on the line.
Quarterback draw.
The kid 134 schools rejected spun through defenders and dove into the end zone.

Game over.
Indiana—national champions.
The losingest program became the best team in America.
All because a 17-year-old refused to believe “no” was the end.

Rankings don’t decide your ceiling.
Gatekeepers don’t write your ending.
Being overlooked isn’t a verdict—it’s a starting point.

Sometimes all you need is one shot…
and the courage to bet on yourself when nobody else will.
Don’t quit.

Credit: Barclay Mullins

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@atensnut Gary could barely move and still took that loser. Well done Gary.

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@TrumpsHurricane See ya weirdos. Bon voyage.

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@Shaughn_A2 @JLRINVESTIGATES Temu Winnie 😆

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@babybeginner Bye bye Planet Fitness. Good luck staying in business sick f@cks

[Red Eagle Updates 🦅🇺🇸 @RedEagleUpdates]

🚨Don’t repost this, democrats will get mad!

They hate that the people of Venezuela are celebrating Trump removing an illegitimate Narco Terrorist President.

Do you firmly support TRUMP on this?

YES or NO?

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MAKE THIS GO VIRAL ON 𝕏. LET’S GO 👏

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Woman on the capture of Maduro: "So many years waiting for this… Thank you God. Thanks to the President of the United States."

[RigoStaRR @RigoIrizarry]

After 25 years living under a Dictatorship, today January 3, 2026, Venezuelans woke up to Freedom!! Thank you President Trump! 🙌🏾🙏🏽♥️🇻🇪🇺🇸

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

It is heartwarming to see so many Venezuelans celebrating their country freed from a brutal tyrant ❤️🇺🇸🇻🇪❤️

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

Keep posting these.

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@AlexWilsonESM Fair and legal, but dirty as hell. He had no reason to hit him like that.

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@broadwaybabyto We don't call disabled people retarded ever, we call idiots like you retarded. Big difference.

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@AntiWokeMemes Needs to be banned from flying at the very least.

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@LibertyCappy Farley and Williams, no contest

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@acathleen5 @ElephantSignal

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@StandUpForTrmp

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@timony001 Should not even have to be a question.