Michelle Schaefer

I am a secondary math teacher, and have been teaching Jr. High for over 20 years. I am a mom of two young teens who still like me most days. I love to travel.

[Michelle Schaefer @MichelleLSch]

❤️🤍 #IUfootball

[J.D. PicKell @jdpickell]

Don’t care that it’s a video game. Cignetti voice over with that music made me feel something

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

Very cool. Point for college baseball.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

WVU walks it off & has the entire stadium singing Country Roads

Chills

[Martha the Mop Lady @TheMopLady]

I’m convinced Curt Cignetti will be buried in the 2024-25 CFP quarter zip.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

CHAMPION ENERGY. 🏆

@IndianaFootball Hoosiers in the house. 🔥

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

If you pitched this as a screenplay, every studio would reject it for being too on-the-nose.

Fernando Mendoza was a 2-star recruit ranked 2,149th in his high school class. Zero FBS scholarship offers. Not one. He walked on at Cal, fought for a starting job, transferred to Indiana for his senior year, then led them to 16-0 and the first national title in school history. Heisman, Walter Camp, Maxwell, Davey O'Brien, Manning, Big Ten MVP. 41 TDs, 72% completion, 8-to-0 TD-to-INT ratio in the playoffs.

The Raiders took him #1 overall Thursday night. $54.56M fully guaranteed. Only the third player ever to win the Heisman, win a national championship, and go first overall the next spring. Burrow. Newton. Mendoza.

Then he skipped Pittsburgh.

The biggest stage in football, the moment every kid imagines from the second they pick up a ball, and Fernando watched the call from his living room in Florida because his mom Elsa is in a wheelchair and the travel is hard for her. She was diagnosed with MS when he was 4. She wrote a letter to her sons in The Players Tribune in 2015 promising the disease "won't affect us in the ways that matter."

The part nobody talks about: while every other top pick was on stage, Fernando announced the Mendoza Family Fund the same day. $500K personal donation to the National MS Society. Committed to raising $1M over three years. He hasn't taken an NFL snap and he's already given more to a cause than most players donate in a full career.

He and his brother Alberto have already raised $360K through the Mendoza Bros. Burger at BuffaLouie's in Bloomington. At Christmas, he handed four families dealing with MS $10,000 each for an Adidas shopping spree.

Both his parents are children of Cuban refugees who fled Castro. His dad rowed at Brown, won a Junior World Championship in 1987, and played high school football in Miami next to a teammate named Mario Cristobal. Fernando beat his dad's old teammate in the national championship game in January.

Every athlete talks about playing for their family. Fernando actually did it.

[Ben Stevens @BenScottStevens]

Fernando Mendoza fighting back the natural instinct to stand when his name is called so he can stay seated, hug his mom Elsa, and celebrate with her first. 🥹🥹

Fernando called tonight’s draft celebration “really her party.”

[RealRickBozich @realrickbozich]

Final exclamation point on The Perfect #iufb season.

16-0.
Old Oaken Bucket.
Big Ten Champs.
Rose Bowl Champs.
Peach Bowl Champs.
National Champs.
Heisman Trophy.
No. 1 overall NFL Draft Pick -- Fernando Mendoza.

The End.

[Pittsburgh Penguins @penguins]

International stars ⭐️

Tonight, we honored the men and women who medaled at #MilanoCortina2026!

[New Jersey Devils @NJDevils]

Getting the recognition he deserves.

Respect, @penguins.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

American Hero Jack Hughes received a standing ovation in Pittsburgh

[The Degenerates @degen_betting]

I’ve lived my whole life in Pittsburgh.

I can count on 1 hand the number of visiting players (in any sport) that have gotten a standing ovation here.

Just shows how much hockey fans everywhere in the US love Jack Hughes 🇺🇸

[TONY™ @TONYxTWO]

Pat McAfee surprised Team USA by paying for their entire tab 🇺🇸🔥

“Thank you for representing the United States of America in such a great way, it was an honor to watch you win, enjoy the hell out of it, tonight all of your drinks are on me.”

The tab was ~$150,000

Legend!!! 👏🏼

[Tone Digs @ToneDigz]

That’s Pittsburgh baby. Make us proud

[Pat McAfee @PatMcAfeeShow]

Our goalie decided we weren’t gonna lose today.. One of the greatest American sport performances of all time

🗣🗣 THANK YOU FOR STANDING ON YOUR HEAD CONNOR HELLEBUYCK

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Kirk Herbstreit @KirkHerbstreit]

Impossible for me to LOVE these dudes anymore than I do!
Thank you boys!!!!!!
USA 🇺🇸

[Bob Pompeani @KDPomp]

This is still the best sports commercial ever. 47 years after it first aired

[JPSD @JEFFH812]

@TheFieldOf68 So you’re allowed to stomp on a guy Achilles when he has a drive now

[The Field of 68 @TheFieldOf68]

YOU MAKE THE CALL 🫵

John Blackwell is whistled for a CRUCIAL blocking foul that gave Indiana the win from the FT line 👀

Was it the right call? 🤔