Rodney Johnson

Co-author of “Shadows of Betrayal” a fictional look at the 2024 election. What happens when a Democratic senator challenges the incumbent D president?

[Rodney Johnson @TRINSPIRATION]

Vicki Montoya and I are pleased to announce our first novel, "Shadows of Betrayal," has been published exclusively on Amazon. What happens when a Democratic senator from MO challenges the senile incumbent D president for the nomination? Ripped from today's headlines!

[College Football with Sam @CFBwSam]

Will Curt Cignetti win another national title with Indiana?

[Rodney Johnson @TRINSPIRATION]

I love it!

[Samuel Leeds @samuel_leeds]

I'm buying a church.

I’ve made a cash offer of £225,000 to purchase this church, which was about to close and be sold off to developers.

I'm fed up with driving past all these churches in the UK that used to thrive, support the community, and feed the homeless.

Now, just look at these beautiful church buildings.

So many are boarded up, closed down, with developers queueing up to profit from converting them into flats.

I simply can't accept that a building built to glorify Jesus for generations can be turned into something solely for profit.

So I've placed an offer on a church in my hometown.

My plan is to buy it and offer it completely free of charge, with zero rent, to a church willing to worship Jesus here and serve others.

What do you think of this idea?

[Rodney Johnson @TRINSPIRATION]

Getting the group together again. Nice!

[Richard Johnson @RichJohnsonNFL]

BREAKING: The #Chiefs are running it all the way back.

Tyreek Hill will be signing with the team in the coming days and Travis Kelce will hold off retirement until next year and return to the team.

Incredible that Mahomes was able to pull this off. They’re back 🔥

[Rodney Johnson @TRINSPIRATION]

This ✅

[This Is Indiana 2025 Natty Champs @BleedingHoosier]

Nobody deserved to bear witness to this incredible season more than The Voice of the Hoosiers himself Don Fischer man.
I will never get over this I still can’t believe how insane this season was. #iufb

h/t @Moon1ightSt

[Matt Wallace @MattWallace888]

James Van Der Beek’s final message to the world is one of the most powerful things I have ever heard. Stop whatever you are doing and listen to this! 🥺

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@KCChiefFans Len Dawson

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Are you also working on flying cars at @Tesla? My good friend wants one. @elonmusk

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

SpaceX will build a system that allows anyone to travel to Moon.

This will so insanely cool 🚀💫🤩

[Brad Henson Productions @BradHensonPro]

Patrick Mahomes - “Jesus is my Lord and Savior. It’s someone that I lookup every single day to decide what I want to do with my life, and how I want to live my life. Jesus is everything to me at the end of the day. I always lean on Acts 20:7-12.” 🙌🙏

[Rodney Johnson @TRINSPIRATION]

@ammanuscripts @KWiita32 And the progress is only beginning. Much more to come.

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I’m so honored to speak tonight at the ARC-Medina fundraiser for spinal cord injury patients. Thank you @KWiita32 Kory and Kayla Wiita for this opportunity. I am beyond amazed at your progress in the last three months Kory. #WritingCommunity take note of this amazing story.

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@Milajoy 36

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“What? Me worry?” Alfred E. Neuman

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

Did anybody else ever read Mad Magazine growing up? 🤣

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Patrick Mahomes @PatrickMahomes The G.O.A.T

[altheboss @AlTheBoss03]

Name an athlete whose arrival changed everything for a franchise.

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I did. I wrote in my diary: “History was made tonight when man walked on the moon.”

[Roberta Fresquez @RobertaFresque2]

???

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That’s easy— @PatrickMahomes

[Chad @braves2430]

Who's your favorite NFL player that played for your team?🏈

Mine is Elway...

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You “were” a good friend to #Elvis and you “are” a good friend to many, including me. Thx 4 your friendship @Pat_Boone

[ThePatBoone @Pat_Boone]

Elvis and I? We were real friends. Back when both our careers were just getting started, someone asked Elvis if there were any male singers he liked. He said, “Pat Boone. Pat Boone is the best ballad singer of ‘em all.” That meant the world to me.

When he came by our house on Sundays, with the whole Boone family out by the pool, he wasn’t Elvis the superstar. He was just a friend. And I think, deep down, he wanted a little of the quiet family life he saw in our backyard.

I never envied Elvis. I loved him. And I’ll always be grateful for his friendship.

#ElvisPresley #RealFriendship #GoldenMemories #PatBooneStories #RocknRollHistory

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I’d put this bit of “breaking records” in my screenplay about Fernando Mendoza & Indiana University’s 16-0 season! #WritingCommunity @CCignettiIU

[Unnecessary Roughness @UnnecRoughness]

Fernando Mendoza was born for late night television

[Rodney Johnson @TRINSPIRATION]

Having written the screenplay for a true life football story already, my writing partner & I would love to tell the story of the Indiana Hoosiers 16-0 season featuring Fernando Mendoza and Curt Cignetti. #WritingCommunity @Indiana Hoosiers

[DK🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 @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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Len Dawson and Joe Montana

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@Matt_Pinner Excessive