Rick Waters

Husband, Father, Coach

[Rick Waters @rickwatersjr]

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[Rick Waters @rickwatersjr]

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[Jay Glazer @JayGlazer]

Mental Health Motivation today courtesy of me and @rondebarber.

So here’s the deal gang, 5 years ago, I was stuck in one of the darkest, most painful periods of my life. The dark gray got so bad I wasn’t thinking sensibly to the point where I would go to sleep at night hoping tomorrow wouldn’t come. This was well before I ever talked publicly about my depression, anxiety and mental health issues or wrote my book Unbreakable about it.

So for the first time I did something I now implore alllll of us to do when we are hurting. For the first time… I FINALLY called my boys (my teammates in life) and told them how much pain I was in and that I needed help.

I was heading to Tampa for the Super Bowl and the day before I left I called this man, Ronde Barber and two of our other friends Ben Heldfund and Brian Rhattigan and told them I needed to meet up down there because I was going through something. At first they couldn’t because they already had plans but then I communicated much more directly and said, “No, guys I NEED to meet, I AM STRUGGLING… BADLY!!!”

All three immediately dropped their other plans and said, “What time and where? I got you!”

I GOT YOU

Their reaction changed everything for me that day. I think it was the first time I ever really truly told friends about my mental health battles in detail. I didn’t hold back. Didn’t try to wear a mask anymore and hide my pain behind the mask of a huge personality. I was real with them. Their reaction changed my life. Showed me the power of “I got you!” And showed me the power of opening up and leaning into my teammates.

Folks, since I’ve opened up it’s turned friends into brothers and sisters. And those bonds will be the same bonds there for us now, in 5 years, 15 years, 50 years.

Safety in Vulnerability was the greatest gift they could have given me.

So I want to implore ALL of you… LEAN INTO YOUR TEAMMATES!!! I will do ANYTHING for my teammates.

Ronde, Ben, Brian… thank you! I got you too!

[Coach Anthony Barela @barela_coach]

A really close friend of mine lost his brother. Please consider donating.

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[Rick Waters @rickwatersjr]

@barela_coach Done

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@JonGordon11 Repair

[Rick Waters @rickwatersjr]

@CSURamT Ummm hey dumbass, that’s why we made the change to Prime. Where were you a year ago?

[Rick Waters @rickwatersjr]

@foreverfluffy1 Grammar wins. CSU don’t matter. That’s why.

[Rick Waters @rickwatersjr]

@CSURamT I assume you got numbers? I can pull them for national televised games. You can pull yours from your one nationally televised game (thank you CU). We could also go sell out games. There’s a picture of your last home game. Hot air? Keep believing. It’s cute.

[Rick Waters @rickwatersjr]

@CSURamT Nope. They tuned in for CU. Not you or CSU. Accepted it.

[Rick Waters @rickwatersjr]

@BucktheFuffsv2 You don’t matter

[Rick Waters @rickwatersjr]

@mrmorals @BucktheFuffsv2 CSU don’t matter

[Rick Waters @rickwatersjr]

@BucktheFuffsv2 No worries. You don’t matter.

[Rick Waters @rickwatersjr]

@CSURamT Yet you still won’t matter. 🤔

[Rick Waters @rickwatersjr]

@OutlawsOfMoby Nope. It’s easy. You don’t matter.

[Rick Waters @rickwatersjr]

@CSURamT Not because of you. You don’t matter

[Rick Waters @rickwatersjr]

@DNVR_Rams And yet, you still won’t matter

[Rick Waters @rickwatersjr]

@OutlawsOfMoby You still don’t matter.

[Rick Waters @rickwatersjr]

@MileHighMatt12 They DON’T matter.