Coltin Knape

NSU Longsnapper🦅 Ambidextrous in most things

[Darrin Chiaverini @CoachChev6]

@carrieunderwood I am the New Head Football Coach @NSU_Football and I heard you are a Proud Alum of @NSURiverHawks
Wanted to invite you back to campus next season! You will be my guest and have sideline passes to any game! Look forward to hearing from you!! 🦅🔥🦅🔥🦅🔥🦅🔥🦅

[Darrin Chiaverini @CoachChev6]

#HawksRise 🦅🔥🦅🔥🦅🔥🦅🔥

[Miko📍 @DaymikoW]

Thankful 💯📍 @FCSBOWL

[The Fighting Irish @FightingIrish]

Long snappers — not to be confused with centers — have a very special role

@NDFootball's Michael "Milk" Vinson is giving us the how-to on this edition of 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗪𝗮𝘆 → https://t.co/RSVuIcMfat

#GoIrish ☘️

[Rock and Roll Garage @rocknrollgarag1]

53 years without the legendary singer Janis Joplin. She tragically left us back in October 4, 1970, at the age of 27.

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Someone made a baseball movie montage and it actually deserves an Oscar. Thank you to whoever made this.

[COACH PRIME @DeionSanders]

Let's stop right now & trust God with all our hearts & mind. We claim we have Faith but we fear what today & tomorrow may bring us. We must Believe wholeheartedly that God has our best interest at heart & we will be great in all aspects. Let's Trust God & not what u see & hear. #CoachPrime

[Pastor West @Pastor__West]

Dear Lord,

Today, I need Your help. I have a lot on my shoulders, and my heart is heavy. I confess my past mistakes and unwise choices. But with You by my side, I find strength. Just like Hezekiah, I've made foolish decisions, but knowing You're ahead of me brings comfort. Through Christ, I can overcome all challenges. Amen🙏🏾

[ACC Network @accnetwork]

34-year-old Matt Ganyard, the oldest active player in CFB, is living out his football dream kicking for @UVAFootball after serving 10 years in the Marines 🙌

[Shannonnn sharpes Burner (PARODY Account) @shannonsharpeee]

Bruh I’m in tears 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Coach prime said he made eye contact with a rat & now help is on the way

🎥: @DeionSandersJr

[Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation @OKWildlifeDept]

Unfortunately, miss Jackson we are for real. This "tree stand" was discovered on public land in McIntosh Co. by Warden Rowland. Not only is this EXTREMELY NOT SAFE, it is EXTREMELY NOT LEGAL.
IT WAS HELD IN BY FOUR SMALL SCREWS.

Y👏CAN'T👏Y'ALL👏FIND👏SOMETHING👏SAFE👏TO👏DO?

[Coltin Knape @knape25]

Grass fields always have and will continue to be better than turf imo🤷🏻‍♂️

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

The Aaron Rodgers injury has reignited the NFL debate about natural grass vs. artificial turf fields.

But the data is clear — natural grass is safer.

Here's a breakdown of the data and an explanation of why NFL owners are still hesitant to make the change.

The irony here is that artificial turf was actually created to make people healthy, not hurt them.

A U.S. military study from the 1950s revealed that young people living in urban areas were less physically fit than their suburban counterparts.

So the Ford Foundation chalked this up to the lack of natural grass in most major cities and spent millions developing a synthetic solution for urban playgrounds.

But the industry blew up because of sports teams.

The Houston Astros were the first team to install artificial turf when they opened the Astrodome in 1965.

And within just five years, more than a dozen other pro and college stadiums also went fully synthetic.

Former NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle even said:

"In five to ten years, any problems about playing championship games in cold-weather towns will be resolved - we’ll have artificial turf on all of our fields by then.”

And Pete Rozell wasn't necessarily wrong.

There are more than 8,000 artificial turf fields in the United States today — and 16 of the NFL's 32 teams have artificial turf in their home stadium, including the NY Giants and Jets, Dallas Cowboys, Buffalo Bills, LA Rams and Chargers, and more.

So why do half of the NFL’s 32 owners insist on having artificial turf fields?

Well, the most obvious reason is money.

Artificial turf companies have long bragged about how their product can save sports teams millions of dollars annually on maintenance.

They talk about how it remains consistent in every environment, including rain, sleet, or snow.

And they lure owners in with the promise that they’ll be able to host other money-making events at their multi-billion-dollar stadiums, like concerts and basketball games.

This enables owners to eliminate seven to eight figures in annual maintenance costs and creatively turn something typically seen as a liability into a cash-generating asset.

But just because it’s good for the owner's pocket doesn’t mean it's good for player safety.

NFL players have been complaining about artificial turf fields since the 1970s, and NFLPA President JC Tretter even wrote an open letter to the NFL last year saying, "Artificial turf is significantly harder on the body than grass."

But he didn’t just make the claim - he backed it up with data.

Tretter referenced an independent study that found players have a 28% higher rate of non-contact lower extremity injuries when playing on artificial turf.

And of those non-contact injuries, players have a 32% higher rate of non-contact knee injuries on turf and a staggering 69% higher rate of non-contact foot or ankle injuries on turf compared to grass.

And it's not like there aren't other solutions.

The Las Vegas Raiders and Arizona Cardinals have already engineered and installed retractable field systems.

This allows them to push the field outside during the week so it can get the required maintenance and sunlight, and then they move it back inside roughly 24 hours before each game.

And if owners didn’t want to give up parking spaces, there’s even a solution for that.

Real Madrid's new stadium has a fully retractable pitch that can be stored beneath the stadium with the push of a button.

The $250 million underground greenhouse includes ventilation, air conditioning, irrigation systems, LED lighting, control cameras, and ultraviolet light therapy to maintain the pitch.

But more importantly, it proves that natural grass fields can be used in any environment.

So the NFL’s excuses are starting to run dry.

Player safety has become a big issue within the world’s most profitable sport.

And with owners having the ultimate amount of leverage against individual players, it'll probably be up to the NFLPA to negotiate this into a future CBA.

** If you like learning about the money and business behind sports, subscribe to my 3x weekly podcast.

Apple: https://t.co/oxtjqN8JOE

Spotify: https://t.co/gU26TYamXn

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

The Aaron Rodgers injury has reignited the NFL debate about natural grass vs. artificial turf fields.

But the data is clear — natural grass is safer.

Here's a breakdown of the data and an explanation of why NFL owners are still hesitant to make the change.

The irony here is that artificial turf was actually created to make people healthy, not hurt them.

A U.S. military study from the 1950s revealed that young people living in urban areas were less physically fit than their suburban counterparts.

So the Ford Foundation chalked this up to the lack of natural grass in most major cities and spent millions developing a synthetic solution for urban playgrounds.

But the industry blew up because of sports teams.

The Houston Astros were the first team to install artificial turf when they opened the Astrodome in 1965.

And within just five years, more than a dozen other pro and college stadiums also went fully synthetic.

Former NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle even said:

"In five to ten years, any problems about playing championship games in cold-weather towns will be resolved - we’ll have artificial turf on all of our fields by then.”

And Pete Rozell wasn't necessarily wrong.

There are more than 8,000 artificial turf fields in the United States today — and 16 of the NFL's 32 teams have artificial turf in their home stadium, including the NY Giants and Jets, Dallas Cowboys, Buffalo Bills, LA Rams and Chargers, and more.

So why do half of the NFL’s 32 owners insist on having artificial turf fields?

Well, the most obvious reason is money.

Artificial turf companies have long bragged about how their product can save sports teams millions of dollars annually on maintenance.

They talk about how it remains consistent in every environment, including rain, sleet, or snow.

And they lure owners in with the promise that they’ll be able to host other money-making events at their multi-billion-dollar stadiums, like concerts and basketball games.

This enables owners to eliminate seven to eight figures in annual maintenance costs and creatively turn something typically seen as a liability into a cash-generating asset.

But just because it’s good for the owner's pocket doesn’t mean it's good for player safety.

NFL players have been complaining about artificial turf fields since the 1970s, and NFLPA President JC Tretter even wrote an open letter to the NFL last year saying, "Artificial turf is significantly harder on the body than grass."

But he didn’t just make the claim - he backed it up with data.

Tretter referenced an independent study that found players have a 28% higher rate of non-contact lower extremity injuries when playing on artificial turf.

And of those non-contact injuries, players have a 32% higher rate of non-contact knee injuries on turf and a staggering 69% higher rate of non-contact foot or ankle injuries on turf compared to grass.

And it's not like there aren't other solutions.

The Las Vegas Raiders and Arizona Cardinals have already engineered and installed retractable field systems.

This allows them to push the field outside during the week so it can get the required maintenance and sunlight, and then they move it back inside roughly 24 hours before each game.

And if owners didn’t want to give up parking spaces, there’s even a solution for that.

Real Madrid's new stadium has a fully retractable pitch that can be stored beneath the stadium with the push of a button.

The $250 million underground greenhouse includes ventilation, air conditioning, irrigation systems, LED lighting, control cameras, and ultraviolet light therapy to maintain the pitch.

But more importantly, it proves that natural grass fields can be used in any environment.

So the NFL’s excuses are starting to run dry.

Player safety has become a big issue within the world’s most profitable sport.

And with owners having the ultimate amount of leverage against individual players, it'll probably be up to the NFLPA to negotiate this into a future CBA.

** If you like learning about the money and business behind sports, subscribe to my 3x weekly podcast.

Apple: https://t.co/oxtjqN8JOE

Spotify: https://t.co/gU26TYamXn

[Shooter McGavin @ShooterMcGavin]

Robert Saleh checking on Rodgers at halftime

[Savanah Hernandez @Savsays]

Our Secretary of Energy tried to take a four-day road trip in electric vehicles in an attempt to get more Americans to use EVs.

A family with a baby in the car ended up calling the cops on her after one of her staffers used a gas car to block the only available charging station at one location.

The jokes write themselves.

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

The defense mechanism of an armadillo..

[COACH PRIME @DeionSanders]

Are u serious? If not, i want u to become serious about everything that concerns u, the present & your future. Stop meandering thru life & prioritize the things that can elevate u now. You get 1 shot at this thang called life so seize the moment. #CoachPrime

[Danny Kanell @dannykanell]

Not many better entrances in all of sport.

[Northeastern State Athletics @RiverHawkSports]

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