Laird Bigwave

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

This story brings me so much joy and not just because Case helped the Bears beat the Eagles ❤️

Case Keenum has been in the NFL since 2012. Until Monday night, his two kids had never seen him play a game.

Not one. Not ever.

Here is what he said before kickoff.

"It means everything. It's incredible because we always say 'Keenum's can do hard things.' So we'll do some hard things tonight. And hopefully I can show them tonight how it's done."

He is 38 years old. He was the third quarterback on the Chicago Bears depth chart.

Caleb Williams was ruled out. Backup Tyson Bagent went into concussion protocol. So the job fell to the guy nobody expected to take another snap in his life.

It had been 1,009 days since Case Keenum started a regular season NFL game. The last one was Christmas Eve of 2023 with the Houston Texans.

His son Kyler was born in November of 2019. His daughter Cadence was born in April of 2021.

Which means Case Keenum has been an NFL quarterback for every single day that either of his children has been alive, and neither one of them had ever seen him play a game. Cadence was two years old the last time he started one.

He arrived at Soldier Field carrying what looked like a paper sack, dressed like a man on his way to a parent teacher conference. The internet had a wonderful time with it. Somebody said his wife must have packed him a lunch.

That wife is Kimberly. The family calls her the logistical ninja, because she is the one who has packed and unpacked their whole life through the Houston Texans, the Rams, the Minnesota Vikings, the Denver Broncos, Washington, the Cleveland Browns, the Buffalo Bills, Houston again, and now the Chicago Bears.

This is also the man who threw for 19,217 yards at Houston, which is still the most in the history of college football, and then went undrafted.

Then the game started.

24 of 34. 247 yards. Two touchdowns. No interceptions. Not sacked one time.

Eight yards to Luther Burden III in the first quarter. Forty one yards to Kalif Raymond in the third. Then in the fourth he kept it himself and walked it in from a yard out.

Three touchdowns from a third string quarterback.

Chicago Bears 27, Philadelphia Eagles 7.

When it ended he walked off hyping up the crowd in the north end zone, and the whole stadium stood up for him.

And then came the part nobody could have written.

Keenum went out to do his postgame interview on the SportsCenter set. His daughter came with him. Five years old, out on that stage next to her dad, waving at a stadium full of Chicago Bears fans who were still standing there cheering for him.

Fourteen years of practice squads and backup jobs and new cities and moving trucks.

He said it himself when he signed here. More than knowing how to get hit, he knows how to get back up.

The first NFL game his kids ever got to watch, their dad won it, and he scored three times doing it.

Keenums can do hard things. @SOTPodcast

[Unmask The SYS @UnmaskTheSys]

🚨 RUBIO JUST SAID THE NUMBER THEY NEVER WANTED ON TV 🚨

Americans work 40 years.
They retire.
Social Security: $800. $900. A thousand a month.

Somebody who got here from Cuba three months ago: $1,500 a month.

Marco Rubio said it out loud.

“So imagine if you’ve been working here for 40 years and your Social Security check is smaller than the benefits going to a 28-year-old, able-bodied person who just got here. That’s real. That happens. That’s happening every day. That makes no sense.”

You paid in.
They landed.
They beat your check.

That’s not compassion.
That’s a slap in the face with your own tax dollars.

[Laird Bigwave @LBigwave]

@NEWS9 @jhale24 Sounds a bit like Mike Leach! 🤣

[Laird Bigwave @LBigwave]

@notlimah44 #Shoegate

[Laird Bigwave @LBigwave]

@TheTennisLetter #Shoegate

[Matthew McConaughey @McConaughey]

bets still on the table America, yet.

[Laird Bigwave @LBigwave]

🤯

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

A 24-year-old Polish tennis player arrived in Paris last week ranked 114th in the world, with no sponsors, no guaranteed income, and no certainty she could even pay for her hotel room.

She had to win three qualifying matches just to enter the French Open main draw. Prize money is only paid at the end of the tournament, so a Polish sports drink brand quietly stepped in and covered her hotel bill.

Her name is Maja Chwalinska. And today, she plays in the French Open final.

Before this tournament, she had won exactly one Grand Slam main draw match in her entire career. She had battled depression so severe that in 2021 she couldn't get out of bed. She underwent knee surgery in 2022. She spent years grinding through small tournaments across Europe just to stay afloat.

Then she arrived in Paris, won three qualifiers, and kept winning. Zheng Qinwen. Elise Mertens. Maria Sakkari. Diana Shnaider. Nine straight matches. One set dropped.

She is now the first qualifier in French Open history to reach the final. The last time a qualifier reached a Grand Slam final, it was Emma Raducanu at the 2021 US Open. Raducanu won.

By simply making the final, Chwalinska has earned more prize money than her entire career combined. The runner-up cheque alone is $1.6 million. If she wins today, she takes home $3.25 million.
One week ago she couldn't pay for her hotel room.

[Laird Bigwave @LBigwave]

@JordanChri21146 @OhioTate @StoolAfterDark He sells medical devices for surgery. Not a bad gig if you’ve got customers like Dr Ochs.

[Restricted Daily @RestrictedDaily]

Final Jeopardy time. No Googling… just instincts. What’s your answer?

[Miss ADEL🦋🦚🌹 @a_derll]

I mean how?🤯

[Surf Life 🏄 @surfgoldbeaches]

Perhaps one of the greatest moments captured in 2025 was by none other than Tahiti’s ultimate!

[Josh Hawley @HawleyMO]

$1 TRILLION in taxpayer money is lost to fraud every year.

That’s $115 million an hour.

And where is the rampant fraud money going? To terrorism and child trafficking

This is madness and it must end

[Clinton Donnelly @CryptoTaxFixer]

🚨 BREAKING: IRS SCANDAL EXPOSED 🚨

You’re not going to believe this.

Sen. Joni Ernst has revealed that IRS EMPLOYEES OWE ~$50,000,000 IN UNPAID TAXES.

Yes.

The people who enforce the tax laws… aren’t paying them.

Let that sink in.

Nearly 6,000 IRS employees, almost 10% of the agency, have significant unpaid tax balances.

Average amount owed? About $8,000 per employee.
These are not recent bills. Many are from prior years. Some didn’t even file.

This isn’t a clerical issue. It’s a credibility crisis.

These employees know exactly how the system works, what gets flagged, what doesn’t, and where enforcement is weak.

That’s not just hypocrisy.
That’s tax fraud risk inside the tax authority itself.

So here’s the real question: Should Scott Bessent put IRS employees with unpaid taxes on probation, just like any other federal worker?

Because, if the IRS won’t enforce the rules on itself, why should the public trust enforcement at all?

Curious what you think. Please comment and hare.

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

Well said. Spot on.

"A society can survive disagreement.
It can't survive the loss of reality itself. You free your mind by using your brain." 🫳🎤

[Laird Bigwave @LBigwave]

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