Adam Ramirez 🏈🏀

Member of the Vbrandsports podcast team

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The doctor who delivered Dolly Parton in a one-room Tennessee cabin in 1946 was paid with a sack of cornmeal. Her father farmed other people's land and could not read or write. Eighty years later, the reading program she built in his name has mailed more than 300 million books.

She wrote "I Will Always Love You" on the same afternoon she wrote "Jolene," as a goodbye to Porter Wagoner, and released it in 1974. Elvis wanted it. The night before the session, Colonel Tom Parker called and said Presley would only record it if they got half the publishing, meaning half of everything the song ever earned. She had been in Nashville ten years by then. She said no, and cried all night. Whitney Houston cut her version in 1992, held number one for fourteen weeks, and Forbes later put Parton's royalties from it near $10 million. She put some of that money into an office complex in Nashville and called the place the house that Whitney built.

Dollywood opened in Pigeon Forge in 1986 because she wanted paychecks in the county she came from. Around 4,000 people work there now. Three million visitors come every year. The University of Tennessee put its economic impact at $1.8 billion, and it is the largest employer in Sevier County. Since 2022 the company has paid tuition, fees, and books in full for every worker from their first day, seasonal hires included.

Wildfires tore through those mountains in November 2016, killing fourteen people and destroying more than 2,400 buildings. Her foundation was handing out money within 48 hours. Every family that lost a home got $1,000 a month for six months, regardless of income. The final check was $5,000. Total delivered: $8.9 million.

In April 2020 she sent $1 million to Vanderbilt for coronavirus research. When Moderna's vaccine results ran in the New England Journal of Medicine that November, her fund appeared in the footnotes.

Carl Dean, her husband of nearly sixty years, died in March 2025. The note she wrote to fans afterward ended with the same five words she wrote for Porter Wagoner back in 1974. She died in Nashville today. Her family asked that instead of flowers, people give to the Imagination Library, which still mails 3.4 million books a month to children who will never get to meet her.

[Top Tier @TopTierStateX]

Colt Brennan put Hawaii in the national spotlight during his time as QB. RIP Colt 🐐

[Adam Ramirez 🏈🏀 @awrami22]

@Doc_Texas And it’s a public school. No private school pick and choose bs. Texas is different 🤷

[VBrand Sports Talk @Podcast1204]

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[Adam Ramirez 🏈🏀 @awrami22]

@groldrush

[Adam Ramirez 🏈🏀 @awrami22]

@walkonredshirts Vince young

[Adam Ramirez 🏈🏀 @awrami22]

@0xarslan We have your back. Hook em!

[Adam Ramirez 🏈🏀 @awrami22]

@morris_atc @Matt_Stepp817 If anyone is curious about how it works check out @Podcast1204. We discussed it in last nights episode with an AD who is quite familiar with it.

[Adam Ramirez 🏈🏀 @awrami22]

@Coach__Tarp A 3-3 in general is hard to run on. Check out Grandfalls royalty film on YouTube in 2012-2013 as reference. A 2-3 with the right studs is challenging as well imo! Love your content btw!

[Adam Ramirez 🏈🏀 @awrami22]

@griffithqbcoach Your forgot Brady Quinn, Coach.

[Adam Ramirez 🏈🏀 @awrami22]

@20YearsAgoSport 💔💔💔

[Adam Ramirez 🏈🏀 @awrami22]

@20YearsAgoSport Don’t sleep on the 3 star. Absolute dog for the Indians out in Jim Ned. I have a great feeling about the kid.

[Adam Ramirez 🏈🏀 @awrami22]

@20YearsAgoSport Brady Quinn is a lock. That Adrian Peterson kid is no joke tho.

[Longhorn Football Edits✍️ @UTFootballEdits]

Love to see our European friends learning about real American culture! 😏🤘🏾

[Adam Ramirez 🏈🏀 @awrami22]

@TheNotoriousMMA Let’s go win this thing champ!! 🐐

[Adam Ramirez 🏈🏀 @awrami22]

@billyjackray I think I have 2 years eligibility left for the Alma mater coach!!

[JDM @Joshua__DM]

If I were Dana White or Trump, I’d be so annoyed with Josh Hokit. The event was basically flawless and now the only thing anyone’s going to talk about today is his Michelle Obama comment.

[Adam Ramirez 🏈🏀 @awrami22]

@fastlane6677 That’s what I’ve been saying lol

[🦦 @KidLilliy]

@DailyLoud Throw Adonis on it so we can have forever remix PT2 😂