John Nelson

Retired BFMS Wildcat Principal, golf nut, United Way Be the 1 LIVE UNITED

[Greg McCullough, PGA @gmacpga]

Everyone tip your favorite beverage to “Kenny” today! One of the founding fathers of EMC and an all round great advocate for golf! #kenny #halloffamer #fargogolf

[Lenny Ohlhauser @ohlhaul_lenny]

Congratulations Bart, FPS teacher of the year. Well deserved

[Edgewood Mens Club @fargogolfers]

Best muni pro in golf. Our guy @gmacpga will be missed.

[John Nelson @jgn1961]

@NickLakoduk I love the old saying, "when you lose say little, when you win say less"

[Greg McCullough, PGA @gmacpga]

Play faster! You will play better!

[Edgewood Mens Club @fargogolfers]

Congrats to the legend Mike Berg on his Pat Ableidinger Sportmanship award!

[John Nelson @jgn1961]

@JDAndres92 Congratulations!

[Rob Oviatt @RobOviatt1]

Hung prominently on the wall of our weight room at Kentucky.

“ There are two Pains in Life.
The pain of Hard Work. The pain of Regret.
One is temporary. The other lasts a Lifetime. “
Bill Curry

[Jeff Kolpack @KolpackInForum]

A 135-pound kid no more, Hallquist powering his way in Division I baseball via InForum https://t.co/n6nJkoIWun

[John Nelson @jgn1961]

@pat_thiel Respect your elders, young man.

[Fargo Public Schools @FargoNDSchools]

Sanford Children's Hospital is displaying cartoon scribble art created and donated by seventh graders at Ben Franklin Middle School. Sanford has placed the art in frames around its building, including at the front desk.

[Gene Chizik @CoachGeneChizik]

Discussions are always better than arguments. An argument is to find out WHO is right. A discussion is to find out WHAT is right.
Huge difference.
#WordsofChizdom

[John Nelson @jgn1961]

Looks like we have a lot of victims in politics

[Allistair McCaw @AllistairMcCaw]

Champion Mentality v Victim Mentality:

[John Nelson @jgn1961]

@NickLakoduk Will the over/under with Gophers be 20 or less?

[Adam Palczewski @HeadBallCoachWF]

I’ve been saying for years saying more recess and fewer behavior specialists and it’s fallen on deaf ears. But glad someone smarter than me is saying it too.

[Darren Rovell @darrenrovell]

Greatest NIL Deal Ever: The Iowa Pork Producers Association have signed Iowa State football players Myles Purchase, Tyler Moore, Tommy Hamann and Caleb Bacon.

Purchase Moore Hamann & Bacon!

[Nathalie Jones @NathalieABC17]

"What cost is it to those student-athletes?"

#Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz commented on the direction of college athletics right now ⤵️ says it's a football decision that will affect A LOT more than just football teams.

Long answer, but worth a listen

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

Jesse Owens of USA winning gold for the long jump in the summer Olympics in Germany, 1936.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ The man saluting behind Owens is Lutz Long, a German who shared training tips with Owens and was the first to openly congratulate him after his final jump in full view of Hitler.

After the Olympics, the two kept in touch via mail. Below is Long's last letter to Owens while he was stationed with the German Army in North Africa during World War 2. Long was later killed in action during the allied invasion of Sicily in 1943.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

"I am here, Jesse, where it seems there is only the dry sand and the wet blood. I do not fear so much for myself, my friend Jesse, I fear for my woman who is home, and my young son Karl, who has never really known his father.⁣⁣

My heart tells me, if I be honest with you, that this is the last letter I shall ever write. If it is so, I ask you something. It is a something so very important to me.

It is you go to Germany when this war done, someday find my Karl, and tell him about his father. Tell him, Jesse, what times were like when we not separated by war. I am saying—tell him how things can be between men on this earth.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

If you do this something for me, this thing that I need the most to know will be done, I do something for you, now. I tell you something I know you want to hear. And it is true.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

That hour in Berlin when I first spoke to you, when you had your knee upon the ground, I knew that you were in prayer.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Then I not know how I know. Now I do. I know it is never by chance that we come together. I come to you that hour in 1936 for purpose more than der Berliner Olympiade.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

And you, I believe, will read this letter, while it should not be possible to reach you ever, for purpose more even than our friendship.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ I believe this shall come about because I think now that God will make it come about. This is what I have to tell you, Jesse.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

I think I might believe in God.⁣⁣ And I pray to him that, even while it should not be possible for this to reach you ever, these words I write will still be read by you.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

Your brother,⁣⁣ Luz"⁣⁣

[Travis Christensen @FNHPrincipal]

FNH is currently looking to hire SPED Teachers. Fargo Public provides competitive pay as well as in depth mentoring and training to support new hires.

[Julia's #STEAMing up Learning! @GiftedTawk]

Teachers: What is the message here?
Love this, by the way.