mc the original

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

Jordy Nelson made more than $56 million playing in the NFL.

He spends his days on a farm in Kansas, driving a combine.

The farm sits between Riley and Leonardville, two towns with a combined population of about 1,500, roughly 50 miles west of Topeka. Four thousand acres. A thousand head of cattle.

His great-great-grandfather started it after immigrating from Sweden. It's been in the family four generations.

Nelson was driving tractor loads of wheat into town at 12 years old, before he had a license.

He went to Kansas State, caught a school record 122 passes as a senior, and Green Bay took him in the second round in 2008.

Then he became one of the best receivers in football. A 1,519 yard season in 2014, a Packers record. Fourteen touchdowns to lead the NFL in 2016. Nine catches for 140 yards and a score in Super Bowl XLV. Aaron Rodgers threw to him more than anybody.

He finished with 613 catches, 8,587 yards and 72 touchdowns over 10 seasons.

Here's what he did every offseason while all that was happening.

He went home and worked.

Five or six weeks a year, driving a combine through the wheat harvest, sometimes 12 hours a day. Rounding up cattle. Doing the same jobs he'd done as a kid.

"Working cattle is my favorite farm duty," he told ESPN back in 2015, at the peak of his career. "It's interactive, and you're on your feet all day."

Then he said the thing that tells you everything.

"I probably identify more as a farmer than a football player. Around here, I'm just the farm kid that they have always known."

His brother Mike, 18 months older, runs the operation.

In 2016, Nelson told Wisconsin Agriculturalist what he planned to do when football ended.

"I want to be my brother's hired man."

Not owner. Not investor. Hired man.

A year later he explained it a little more to Successful Farming.

"We plan on moving back home to Kansas and working with my brother on the farm. I told him he can lay me off whenever he wants and I'll go on vacation."

He retired in 2019 and did exactly that. He lives in Kansas now with his wife Emily and their sons, working the same ground his family has worked for four generations.

Bill Snyder, his coach at Kansas State, described him in a way that reads differently once you know where he ended up.

"He is the epitome of consistency. He's not one way one day and another way the next day. He's the same Jordy Nelson, day in and day out. There's no pretense to him whatsoever."

Nelson put it his own way.

"It set the foundation of who I am. The hard work, the day-in, day-out grind. Understanding that you have to go to work every day."

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[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

DJ Giddens didn't start a single game in high school until his junior year ended, and only because the guy ahead of him got hurt.

He finished with zero stars on every recruiting site. Zero scholarship offers after that junior season. The plan was Butler Community College, nothing more.

Then Kansas State called. It was the only Division I offer he ever got.

He turned it into three seasons and over 3,700 total yards for the Wildcats, then got picked by the Colts in the fifth round of last year's draft.

His rookie season was mostly quiet. 26 carries all year, buried behind Jonathan Taylor on the depth chart.

Today, in the Colts' final preseason game, he broke a 6-yard run into the end zone for the first touchdown of his NFL career.

His teammates didn't stay on the sideline for it.

Everyone in that building knew exactly what they were watching. Not just a touchdown. A kid who had one single offer to play college football, on a roster fighting for jobs before final cuts, finally getting his moment.

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[mc the original @mctheoriginal]

@FleetFreaker @billmo08 @MrGlobal2025 @Searcy306 He’s the same dip shit that says you have TDS if you bookmark it😂

Political dick riding for troll purposes is an interesting concept

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

Setting aside the fact that Trump was convicted of fraud, here are all the people who committed fraud and were pardoned by Trump:
Rod R. Blagojevich (Wire fraud under color of official right (8 counts)), Brian KelseyBrian Kelsey (Conspiracy to defraud the United States), Devon Archer (Conspiracy to commit securities fraud; securities fraud), Trevor Milton (Securities fraud; wire fraud (2 counts)), Jason Galanis (Conspiracy to commit securities fraud (2 counts); securities fraud; investment adviser fraud), Ozy Media, Inc. (Conspiracy to commit securities fraud; conspiracy to commit wire fraud), Carlos Roy Watson (Conspiracy to commit securities fraud; conspiracy to commit wire fraud), Michele Fiore (Conspiracy to commit wire fraud; wire fraud (6 counts)), Scott Howard Jenkins (Honest services mail fraud; honest services wire fraud (3 counts)), Julie Chrisley (Conspiracy to commit bank fraud; bank fraud (5 counts); wire fraud), Todd Chrisley (Conspiracy to commit bank fraud; bank fraud (5 counts)), Lawrence S. Duran (Conspiracy to commit health care fraud; health care fraud (11 counts)), Michael Gerard Grimm (Aiding/assisting preparation of false and fraudulent tax returns), Marian I Morgan (Conspiracy to defraud the United States; wire fraud (7 counts); transfer of funds taken by fraud (5 counts)), John G. Rowland (Conspiracy to defraud the United States), Charles Overton Scott (Conspiracy to commit securities fraud; securities fraud), George Anthony Devolder Santos (Wire fraud — the Party Program Scheme), Glen Casada (Conspiracy to defraud the United States; honest services wire fraud (4 counts); use of fictitious name to carry out a fraud), Cade Cothren (Conspiracy to defraud the United States; honest services wire fraud (6 counts)), Robert Henry Harshbarger, Jr. (Health care fraud), Joseph Lewis (Conspiracy to commit securities fraud; securities fraud (2 counts)), David Gentile (Conspiracy to commit securities fraud; conspiracy to commit wire fraud; securities fraud; wire fraud (2 counts)), Enrique Roberto Cuellar (Honest services wire fraud; honest services wire fraud conspiracy), Imelda Rios Cuellar (Honest services wire fraud; honest services wire fraud conspiracy), Jacob Deutsch (Conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud), Adriana Isabel Camberos (Conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud; wire fraud (7 counts)), Andres Enrique Camberos (Conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud; wire fraud (7 counts)), Julio M. Herrera Velutini (Honest services wire fraud (2 counts)), David Levy (Conspiracy to commit securities fraud; securities fraud), Hollie Ann Nadel (Conspiracy to commit money laundering and bank fraud), Mark T. Rossini (Honest services wire fraud), Wanda Vazquez Garced (Honest services wire fraud), Terren Scott Peizer (Securities fraud; insider trading (2 counts)), Timothy S. Smith (Conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service), Stephen E. Buyer (Securities fraud (4 counts)), Joshua L. Davis (Conspiracy to defraud the United States and violate the Clean Air Act), Matthew Sidney Geouge (Conspiracy to defraud the United States and violate the Clean Air Act; tax evasion), Adam R. Kidan (Conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud; wire fraud), Danny Preston Conrad (Embezzling by postal employee), Jack Charles Harvard (False statement to a federally insured bank, and aiding and abetting), Jeremy Young Hutchinson (Conspiracy to commit bribery; aiding and abetting filing of false income tax return; conspiracy; criminal forfeiture)

[That Guy Rocked @ThatGuyRocked]

Darren Sproles

That guy rocked.

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

HEARTBREAKING: #NFL coaches and GMs LAUGHED when Darren Sproles measured just 5-foot-6 & 170 pounds at the combine.

Sproles called his dad: “They laughed at me”

His dad replied: “You know what to do”

Sproles proceeded to become one of the greatest ever.

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

WHOLESOME: Former #Packers All-Pro Jordy Nelson earned nearly $60 MILLION during his NFL career but still works on the Kansas farm where he grew up.

Nelson spends up to 12 hours a day cutting wheat, managing crops, and herding cattle.

He even worked on the farm during NFL offseasons and once said he “probably identifies more as a farmer than a football player.”

A LEGEND ON THE FIELD. A FARMER AT HEART.

❤️

[mc the original @mctheoriginal]

@promisetokeep @donwinslow He’s personally responsible for over 30% of the national in just 6 yrs
-BBB corrupt give away
-1.8 billion in crypto profits in 6months
-63 stock trades a day proven insider trade
-failed tariff war that the AMERICAN people paid
-flooding the US with undisclosed foreign beef

[Baseball In Pics @baseballinpix]

Dan Quisenberry delivering a pitch. He led the AL in saves 5 times during the 80s, also winning the Rolaids Relief Man Award 5 times.

[Billy Tucker @TheUCReport]

Barry Sanders game log from his historic 1988 season at Oklahoma State is unbelievable.

• 18 car | 178 yds | 2 TD
• 20 car | 157 yds | 2 TD
• 33 car | 304 yds | 5 TD
• 24 car | 174 yds | 4 TD
• 35 car | 189 yds | 4 TD
• 25 car | 154 yds | 2 TD
• 37 car | 320 yds | 3 TD
• 39 car | 215 yds | 2 TD
• 37 car | 312 yds | 5 TD
• 32 car | 293 yds | 4 TD
• 44 car | 332 yds | 4 TD
• 29 car | 222 yds | 5 TDs

Total: 373 carries, 2,850 yards, and 42 touchdowns in 12 games 😳

(🎥: @Ol_TimeFootball)

[Chester Frazier @_ChesterFrazier]

Just scrolling down memory lane… gotta put a little more respect on @coachbruceweber name…2 big 12 championships at Kstate..the only 2…that grind was real!!!

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

INSPIRING: #Packers legendary wide receiver Jordy Nelson went from being a WALK-ON at Kansas State to becoming an #NFL All-Pro.

Nelson arrived at K-State as a walk-on safety, redshirted his first year and didn’t play a single snap the following season.

Jordy eventually switched to receiver, earned a scholarship and exploded for 122 catches, 1,606 yards and 11 touchdowns as a senior.

Green Bay drafted him 36th overall, and Nelson went on to win a Super Bowl, record 8,587 receiving yards and earn All-Pro honors.

From walk-on safety to one of the greatest receivers in GB history.

👿👿👿

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

From 2001 through 2004 Barry Bonds hit 209 home runs, drew 755 walks, and won four straight MVPs.

He homered 73, 46, 45, and 45 times with an OPS over 1.270 every single year.

Pitchers just stopped throwing to him.

[Kent Murphy @KentMurphy]

Never Forget when Barry Bonds was intentionally walked in the bottom of the 9th with the bases loaded 👀😳

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

George Brett singled in the final at-bat of his career on October 3, 1993.

After 21 seasons, all with Kansas City, the crowd knew it was seeing the last swing of a Royals legend.

[David Astramskas @redapples]

My favorite Don Nelson story.
I can’t imagine a coach doing this today

[mc the original @mctheoriginal]

@notfriendly24 @Talha_Tahir3 @TheDunkCentral @espn @Fullcourtpass 😂🤣

[mc the original @mctheoriginal]

@lwhunt87 @TheLongInvest The revenue Trump repeatedly stated other countries paid that turns out it was the American fucking people and businesses paying the tariffs.
Consumers were fucked the moment their own government tax them!

[ALL THE SMOKE @allthesmokeprod]

Barry Bonds breaks down his secret to hitting 💥

"I was able to mathematically calculate what a pitcher can and can't do..."