Keith Snoddy🐧

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[Keith Snoddy🐧 @KeithSnoddy]

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[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

The Cleveland Browns have not won a championship since 1964.

The quarterback who won that one had a PhD in mathematics.

And after he retired, he built the first electronic voting system the United States Congress ever used.

December 27, 1964. The Browns were underdogs against the Baltimore Colts and Johnny Unitas, who was the best quarterback alive and about to be a Hall of Famer.

Cleveland won 27-0.

Shut them out. In a title game.

Frank Ryan threw three touchdown passes to Gary Collins that afternoon. Jim Brown was in the backfield pulling every defender in Ohio toward him, and Ryan picked the rest of the field apart.

That is still the last championship Cleveland has.

Sixty-one years and counting.

Now here is the other life he was living at the same time.

Ryan was working on a doctorate in mathematics at Rice while he was starting at quarterback in the National Football League. He finished it in 1965, the year after the title.

Not an honorary degree. Not a nice gesture from an alma mater. An actual PhD in math, earned during NFL seasons.

He was a three-time Pro Bowler. He went 52-22-2 as a starter. He threw at least 25 touchdown passes in three different seasons, which in the 1960s was an enormous number.

And he was doing something else that nobody in football was doing yet.

Ryan was charting where defenders lined up and calculating which plays worked best against which alignments. He was building a predictive model out of index cards and film, decades before anybody used the word analytics in a football building.

"The positions and locations of players on the other side, and which plays would have more success based on the information about where the defense lined up."

That is a 1960s quarterback describing modern football.

When he got to Washington in 1969, his head coach was Vince Lombardi.

Lombardi did not tell him to knock it off and study the playbook. Lombardi gave him funding and computer equipment and told him to keep going.

Ryan retired after the 1970 season.

Then the math career took over completely.

He taught at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland. He spent 10 years as the athletic director at Yale, where he also taught mathematics, because of course he did.

And he became the director of information services for the United States House of Representatives.

In that job he dragged Congress into the computer age. He helped develop the first electronic voting system the House ever had, the one that replaced clerks calling out 435 names one at a time.

So the next time you see a vote tally flash up on a screen from the House floor, understand who helped build the thing underneath it.

A Cleveland Browns quarterback.

The honest part.

Ryan spent his last years with Alzheimer's disease. His son confirmed the diagnosis. A man whose entire identity was built on the sharpest mathematical mind in the sport lost pieces of it at the end, and it is impossible to read that and not think about what the sport takes.

He died on January 1, 2024, in a nursing home in Connecticut. He was 87.

Cleveland has been waiting for another one since the day he walked off that field.

Sixty-one years later, the last quarterback to do it is still a guy with a doctorate in mathematics and a seat in the history of American government.

They do not make them like that anymore. They basically never did.

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@mike_breck Just run out of the end zone!!! Unreal!

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@MLFootball @StankBastard @DJBucsFan @SaltyBuc91 @AllAboutBucs @SoonersInsider @OUBarstool @CoachBobStoops @bakermayfield @OU_Football @Buccaneers Biggest mistake the Browns made..letting him go

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Triway 31 Wooster 0 at the half

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Triway vs Wooster! 1st time in 40 years! Go Titans!

[Keith Snoddy🐧 @KeithSnoddy]

Congrats!

[Triway Titans Athletics @TriwayAthletics]

The Titans defeat West Holmes for the 3rd straight year, 21-14 to improve to 1-0. Great job and Go Titans!

[Keith Snoddy🐧 @KeithSnoddy]

Awesome!

[Triway Titans Athletics @TriwayAthletics]

Titans up 21-0 at halftime over the Knights

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We are excited to announce Chad Mullen as the new Head Coach of our Boys Basketball program!
Coach Mullen is a 1990 Triway graduate with 16 years of coaching experience within our boys basketball program.
We look forward to an incredible future for Triway Basketball! Go Titans!

[Keith Snoddy🐧 @KeithSnoddy]

Such a hero!

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

July 3, 2022. Moss Point, Mississippi. A car carrying 3 teenage girls drives down the I-10 boat launch and plunges straight into the Pascagoula River.

The driver later tells police she was following her GPS. She had no idea it was leading her off the edge and into the water. By the time she realizes what's happening, the car is already floating. Then sinking.

The vehicle drifts 20 feet from shore. Then more. The girls climb onto the roof of the car as it goes under. The water is black. It is the middle of the night. And the Pascagoula River is known for one other thing most people don't think about until it's too late.

Alligators.

Corion Evans, age 16, a student at Pascagoula High School, is nearby when it happens. He hears the girls screaming for help.

He doesn't hesitate for a single second.

He throws down his phone. Pulls off his shoes. Strips off his shirt. And jumps in.

He later says: I was just like, I can't let none of these folks die. They need to get out the water. So I just started getting them. I wasn't even thinking about nothing else.

The car is nearly submerged. The girls are panicking. The water is deep and dark and moving. Corion swims out — 25 yards from shore — and reaches them.

His friend Karon Bradley, known as KJ, jumps in right behind him. Together they help get the girls onto the surface of the sinking car.

But here is what most people miss: Corion doesn't just help them float. He swims them back. 1 at a time. Into shore. Through the dark water. With legs that are burning and lungs that are working as hard as they ever have.

2 girls make it to shore. The 3rd can't swim. She is still on the roof when a responding officer arrives.

Moss Point Police Officer Gary Mercer swims out to help. He reaches the remaining girl and begins pulling her toward shore. Then the girl panics. She grabs him. She pulls him under. Officer Mercer begins to drown.

Corion turns around.

He sees the officer going under. He hears him calling for help. He is already exhausted. His legs are already spent. He has already pulled 2 people through 25 yards of alligator-infested river in the dead of night.

He swims back out.

He grabs Officer Mercer. He says later: I went and I grabbed the police officer and I'm like swimming him back until I feel myself I can walk.

All 4 people make it to shore alive.

Officer Mercer and all 3 girls are taken to the hospital. All of them recover. Chief Brandon Ashley of the Moss Point Police Department later says publicly: If Mr. Evans had not assisted, it could have possibly turned out tragically instead of all occupants rescued safely.

Moss Point Mayor Billy Knight presents Corion with a certificate of commendation from the city. He says: We are proud of the young man for having the courage to forget about himself and jump into the water. It's not often enough that you see people put others above themselves.

The recognition doesn't stop there. The Mississippi Senate formally commends Corion Evans by name in Senate Resolution 32 of the 2023 legislative session — a rare honor for a teenager from a small town.

His mother, Marquita Evans, speaks to reporters afterward. She says: I was really proud of Corion because he wasn't just thinking about himself. He was trying to really get all those people out the water. I'm glad nothing happened to him while he was trying to save other people's lives.

Corion tells reporters he has been swimming since he was 3 years old.

He is asked if he was scared. He says: Anything could've been in that water. But I wasn't thinking about it.

That is the part that stays with you. He knew the risks. The darkness. The distance. The wildlife beneath the surface. The weight of another person pulling you under. He knew all of it and he swam out anyway. Not once. Not twice. Three times.

4 people are alive today because a 16-year-old boy decided, without hesitating for even a moment, that strangers were worth saving.

[Keith Snoddy🐧 @KeithSnoddy]

Competed and never quit!

[Triway Titans Athletics @TriwayAthletics]

The Titans battled hard against #1 seed Lutheran East but fall in the District Finals 73-47 to finish as the District Runner Up.

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@DOGEQEEN 👍

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Triway with a big home win tonight vs PAC-leading Manchester. The Titans played tough from start to finish and were not going to back down. Way to go, Titans!

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🚨BREAKING: Governor Ron DeSantis says he will allow Florida voters to vote to ABOLISH PROPERTY TAXES. Do it EVERYWHERE!

"If you own your home, to truly OWN it, you have to own it FREE and CLEAR of the government - you shouldn't have to pay rent to the government!"

"We're gonna place a question on the BALLOT that is gonna allow Floridians to vote themselves relief from property tax."

"Your personal home, we really believe, should not be subject to tax. It's an unrealized gain."

"People say, 'that can't be done.' My question is, why can't it be done? [Broward] County, Florida. 1.9 million people. NO net population growth over the last 5 years, but the budget has increased 60%!"

Do you firmly support Ron's efforts?

A. Huge Yes
B. No

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Dr. Phil says what’s actually taking place with ICE versus how the media reports it feels like two completely different movies.

“This is like it’s written by activists, not news reporters.”

When Dr. Phil was on the ground in Chicago, LA, and NY, he personally saw ICE carefully carrying out targeted arrests.

But when he got home and turned on the TV, the media portrayed it as ICE “sweeping neighborhoods” and “taking anybody with a tan.”

“And I’m like, come on. That’s just absolutely not what took place,” Dr. Phil objected.

“And I’m thinking this is like it’s written by activists, not news reporters.”

[SMB Attorney @SMB_Attorney]

With a week to reflect, I’m convinced this was the greatest moment in sports history.

A 2-star recruit leads the worst program ever to a national championship, beats his hometown team that wouldn’t let him walk on, and finishes it by running over the same guy who knocked him out the year before, with his mother battling MS watching from the stands.

If it was a Disney movie, you’d say it was too much.