Tim Brandenstein

Social worker and proud parent to two amazing kiddos!

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Damn, just 0.45 Scaramuccis

[Johnny Akzam @JohnnyAkzam]

I can’t tell if this is Ai or not.

[Manda @mandaconda__]

I wish they’d livestream some fucking Epstein arrests.

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

Tonight Jalon Daniels won his first game as an NFL quarterback.

He was on the Prime Video set afterward when he stopped talking and waved somebody over.

"Ma, come here. Ma, come here."

Her name is Star.

Jalon Daniels' father made it clear he was not going to be part of their lives. Here is what his mother decided to do about that.

"I wanted to make sure that he never felt that feeling of not having Dad there."

So she worked full time for an insurance company and took a second seasonal job at Toys R Us.

She drove him to Pop Warner practices. She would not let him sleep over at friends' houses until high school, though he could bring ten of them to hers anytime.

And when he wanted to go to a party, there was a condition. She parked outside of it.

"She let me know when it was time to leave," he says, laughing. "An hour and a half before the party ended, we were on our way home."

Here is the other thing she told him, over and over.

She wanted him to grow up to be the kind of man anybody's daughter could bring home to her mother.

Now the football, which nobody handed him either.

His sophomore year at Narbonne High School in Los Angeles, the coaches moved him back down to the freshman team.

He transferred to Lawndale High School, won the job, and Lawndale went 14 and 2 and took the first state championship in school history.

His first scholarship offer came from Tennessee-Martin. He committed to Middle Tennessee State. Then Kansas came to see him in December of his senior year, and he flipped.

He gave the Kansas Jayhawks six seasons. In 2021 he beat Texas in Austin, where Kansas had not won a game since 1938. In 2022 he threw for 544 yards in the Liberty Bowl. Then a back injury took 2023 away, and most players leave at that point.

He stayed. He graduated with a 3.58 GPA. He was voted team captain four times, which no Kansas player had ever done. And with the first real money he was ever allowed to earn, he started a foundation for single mothers raising athletic children.

He named it after her.

In April, all 32 teams passed on him for seven rounds. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers signed him as an undrafted free agent on May 8.

Tonight was his second career start. He went 19 of 25 for 189 yards and threw a touchdown to Bucky Irving. The Buccaneers beat the Dallas Cowboys 24 to 16 for their first win of the season after losing their first four.

One win does not make anybody an NFL quarterback, and he would tell you that himself.

But when the cameras finally found him, the first thing he did was make sure they found her too.

"No matter what, I was present, and he always knew I was present."

[Tim Brandenstein @tBrandenstein]

@leafsnlifts As a Wings fan... I feel your pain 😭

[Tim Brandenstein @tBrandenstein]

@pandas4peace2 @unusual_whales As I'm standing... Scrolling on my phone.

[Tim Brandenstein @tBrandenstein]

@nazzobetweeting Play for 2 points per week. 1 point for head to head, and the other point for top half league scores. Balances this kinda stuff out.

[Tim Brandenstein @tBrandenstein]

@ursmelisa Happy birthday!!!

[Tim Brandenstein @tBrandenstein]

@shawzsav That one trick they don't want you to know...

[Tim Brandenstein @tBrandenstein]

@ChelsElaina This is an episode of Seinfeld

[Tim Brandenstein @tBrandenstein]

@ChelsElaina I appreciate the honesty, but it's probably not gonna do him any favors.

[Captain Obvious™️ @TheFungi669]

Comas can really change the meaning of a sentence.

For example:

“Mitch McConnell is in a bed.”

“Mitch McConnell is in a coma.”

[Gordon Heavyfoot @Kerryaic23]

😂😂😂

[Tim Brandenstein @tBrandenstein]

@aspenn_colorado Ahhh... The whimsy. Gets em every time. Never go full whimsy.

[Tim Brandenstein @tBrandenstein]

Definitely dum

[Tim Brandenstein @tBrandenstein]

I think Trump will try and run again just so he can tell us there is a "k" in "knife". No one is gonna believe it.

[Jack @FuneralDrinker]

Isn't clitoris the guy who flew too close to the sun and his wings fell off?

[Tim Brandenstein @tBrandenstein]

@ChelsElaina Ask any marine... There is no such thing as an "ex marine" 😂

[Tim Brandenstein @tBrandenstein]

@ChelsElaina The race car one is unhinged. Maybe that's the move, but I don't see it 🤣.

[Jesse McLaren @McJesse]

The man most offended by the idea of a Black European is a white African.