George Kittle signed a $76,400,000 contract but says he skips luxury cars or watches and instead spent his money building a football field and 50-foot American flagpole at his house
Taylor: “You signed the contract. What nice little juicy gift did you get yourself this time?”
Kittle: “Nothing. This is the third one, it's kind of getting redundant. This time I'm trying to remodel my house, so I was like, yeah, I'm good. Gonna chill on this one. Let this one simmer.”
Taylor: “What's your favorite luxury in life? Something you look at and you're like, this is worth spending my money on.”
Kittle: “Anything on my property. Building a football field at my house. Building a workout facility. Putting up a 50-foot American flagpole, that's probably my favorite purchase I've made. My wife really likes that one. Right when you pull in, it's right next to the football field, so it's the only thing you can f*cking see.”
Taylor: “That's got to fire you up.”
Kittle: “It does… We have lights pointing up at it and I almost got out of the car. I was like, ah, God, it's so beautiful.”
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This is what happens when you try to match @BoBassett06 's pace. He did pass out coming down the steps. J'den felt bad he didn't catch him, but it was unexpected. (We confirmed he's okay.)
Team USA 🇺🇸 rounded out the 2026 U15 Pan American Championships with a seven-champion effort and a team title in Greco-Roman on Saturday in Mexico City. #usawrestling https://t.co/ljB9x5i6wp
Team USA kicked off the 2026 U15 Pan American Championships with an eight-champion effort and a team title in men’s freestyle on Thursday in Mexico City. 🇺🇸 #usawrestling https://t.co/PtuhnqTiMf
Kevin Hoy is set to be inducted into the Air Force Athletics Hall of Fame!
Hoy was a 2x AA & runner-up in 03. A 4x All-Academy champ, he holds program records in career victories with 160 & single season wins with 46. He earned male athlete of the year from the Academy in 03.
Tristyn Ulloa was named Outstanding Wrestler as 10 champions were crowned in the U15 Greco-Roman division on the opening day of the 2026 U.S. Open #usawrestling https://t.co/4qzXmOoUJT
There’s no single path in wrestling.
Some kids need to be pushed early. They’re winning everything, dominating locally, and if you don’t get them into better rooms and tougher tournaments they get comfortable. They start thinking they’re better than they actually are. Those kids need to get tested early so they stay hungry and stay humble.
But on the flip side, some kids are already getting tested every day. They’re losing in the room, losing at tournaments, struggling to place. And that’s where parents panic. They think something’s wrong so they try to add more—more training, bigger events, tougher competition.
That’s where it gets messed up.
If your kid is already getting beat, already dealing with adversity, already having to figure things out… they’re on the right path. That’s how you build resilience. Not from winning. From losing, adjusting, and showing back up anyway. Throwing them into something even harder doesn’t speed it up. Most of the time it just buries them. Harder isn’t better. Better is what they actually need.
The biggest problem is comparison. Parents see another kid dominating at the same age and think their kid is behind. So now it becomes blaming coaches, blaming the room, blaming everything instead of just understanding they’re on a different timeline.
You’re watching a snapshot and acting like it’s the whole story.
Some of those early studs never learn how to lose. Then they hit college, get beat every day, and they don’t know how to respond. No resilience. No identity. They fade out. Meanwhile the kid who couldn’t win a bracket at 10 learned how to handle losing, learned how to adjust, learned how to keep showing up when it sucked. That kid becomes dangerous later.
And then people get burnout completely wrong.
Burnout almost never comes from training too much. It comes from pressure. It comes from a kid feeling like every match defines them, like they’re letting people down, like they’re never doing enough. That’s what drains them.
You rarely see a kid who truly loves it and owns it burn out from mat time. What you do see is kids start to check out. They stop focusing in practice, go through the motions, avoid hard situations, and become inconsistent. Then people say they’re burned out.
No—they’re detached.
Wrestling stopped being something they enjoy and became something they feel judged on. And a lot of the time those kids were never fully bought in, they were just carrying expectations.
That ties right back into the path.
When you force a kid into a path that isn’t theirs—chasing rankings, chasing other kids, chasing results—you don’t build confidence, you build anxiety. So when things get hard they don’t lean in, they pull away.
The kids who last are the ones who were allowed to develop. Win, lose, struggle, figure it out. Because it’s theirs, not yours.
If your kid is winning, good—challenge them.
If your kid is losing, good—let them grow.
Either way stop panicking. Most kids don’t fail because they were on the wrong path. They fail because someone rushed it or made it about themselves, and eventually the kid walks away.
One of the most influential figures in wrestling history passed on March 29, 2026. J Robinson competed for Oklahoma State and qualified for the 1972 Olympic Greco team before a legendary coaching career.
Robinson was an assistant under Gary Kurdelmeier and Dan Gable (1972-84) at the University of Iowa before leading Minnesota to NCAA team titles in 2001, 2002, and 2007. The Golden Gophers were the first team outside Iowa or Oklahoma to win multiple D1 NCAA titles in men’s wrestling.
Wrestling in high school matches in December to winning an NCAA championship in March! @CowboyWrestling Jax Forrest completes the story and takes the 133-pound title. #NCAAWrestling