jason hoffmeyer

WMU soccer alumni, Pinnacle Award Winner & Business Banker for Huntington Bank, avid golfer, member at Metamora CC, #onepride 🦁

[John C. Wharton IV 🇺🇲 @johnnywharton]

June 13th. One of my least favorite days of the year. On this day, two men that I was really close to lost their careers and almost their lives. Didn't seem fair in 1997 and it still doesn't today.

Much has been said about how we celebrated the responsible way. Yeah, we drank. A lot. But we didn't drive. We took limos everywhere that week. Yet tragedy still struck Vladdy and Sergei and it struck our entire team.

I still live near the crash site. Even though lightning would cruelly strike and destroy the tree less than a month after they hit it, I know exactly where it was, the exact median on Woodward, and the location, down to the foot. I drive past it almost daily and still it fixates my glare.

Not far away, Beaumont Hospital, where Vladdy and Sergei would spend months, and I would stop by daily...hoping for a miracle that never came.

Sure, elite medical care, rehabilitation and Vladdy's sheer will to live is why he is still with us 29 years later, but the miracle of he and Sergei Mnatsakanov having even a remotely normal life missed them.

And for that, I will always be angry. I will always wish they never got in that limo or even came to the golf course that day. Neither one of them played even one hole, they weren't golfers... they came to be with their teammates. To celebrate one last time before we all went our separate ways.

Unfair. Cruel.

So I choose to celebrate those men. Sergei has passed but he will never be forgotten. Such an amazing family man, masseur and friend. He never got the credit he deserved for helping that 97 team play at it's best. He was a blessing to me and all the players.

Vladdy? Man, what a warrior. What a great human being and hockey player. Easily the toughest player I had the privilege of working with. He would play through anything... and he did.

I think about him often...wish life was better to and for him. But I do not pity him. Vladdy wouldn't allow it. I love and appreciate him, and I know his fans do too.

[jason hoffmeyer @hoffmeyer_jason]

Decided to list my Lions tickets on the TicketExchange for a game I can’t attend. @Ticketmaster takes 10% from my “list price” and then tacks on another 20% to whoever buys them. So a $300 ticket, nets me $270 and costs $360 for whoever is to buy it. What a sham

[jason hoffmeyer @hoffmeyer_jason]

@ottotop100 @davidblendwell 😂

[jason hoffmeyer @hoffmeyer_jason]

@CollinRugg Says the guy who couldn’t make a play on the puck and cost his team the game

[Chris Castellani @Castellani2014]

ALDS Game 5 vs Seattle Mariners- Heartbreak

[jason hoffmeyer @hoffmeyer_jason]

@NFL_DovKleiman What do I notice? That you continue to show up in my feeds with these dumb posts

[Carl Collins Productions @ccprodzofficial]

🚨🔥LIONS FANS🔥🚨

We've almost made it through the offseason‼️

Here's your 2025-2026 Season Hype Trailer 🎬

#OnePride

[jason hoffmeyer @hoffmeyer_jason]

@SCVegas Last night

[jason hoffmeyer @hoffmeyer_jason]

@BryanTweed16 @Golfingbrock 54 holes at Drummond Island in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Basically had the course to ourselves. Quite the grind on the body, especially while drinking the entire time during the 8 hour extravaganza

[jason hoffmeyer @hoffmeyer_jason]

Played the National and Landing Courses within the Reynolds Lake Oconee property, along with The Harbor Club and I would rank them in that order.

[jason hoffmeyer @hoffmeyer_jason]

A little late with the post but what a trip to Georgia staying at Reynolds Lake Oconee before going to the Monday Masters practice round (which was short lived due to weather 😒)

[jason hoffmeyer @hoffmeyer_jason]

@_MLFootball @bturner23 @ChiefsFocus @chiefs_outsider @chiefshive @BradHensonPro @theonlydyl_ Montana , Craig, Rice

[jason hoffmeyer @hoffmeyer_jason]

@Skratch It was literally the moment I thought he was going to win the Masters a few months later. 🐐

[Terrion Arnold @ArnoldTerrion]

We going to get ours DETRIOT💍

[jason hoffmeyer @hoffmeyer_jason]

@SiaNejad @CohensCornerAZ Stevens

[jason hoffmeyer @hoffmeyer_jason]

@GolfTravelerJoe Oakland Hills CC because you have 2 great courses and it’s 30 min away but Inverness would be a close 2nd choice

[jason hoffmeyer @hoffmeyer_jason]

@TruckBon Allen, Bijan, Jettas, Chase, Laporta

[jason hoffmeyer @hoffmeyer_jason]

@HammerFox2 Last year was sadness, knowing we were so close. This year was anger, knowing how hard they worked to put themselves in the position they were in. Couple days later it’s setting in that we just didn’t have the bodies on defense to win it all. Sucks, but that’s the reality of it

[jason hoffmeyer @hoffmeyer_jason]

@JaydenPlzSlide Honestly good luck, but if our safety’s take that poor of an angle, we probably deserve to lose. I mean wtf was #35 doing lol