Utah State quarterback Levi Williams and his wife, Tatum Stall, star Utah State volleyball player
And then there’s Levi Williams’ story. When Williams led the Utah State Aggies to a thrilling victory last weekend to make his team bowl-eligible, it seemed like a different kind of storybook ending to a season.
After the two quarterbacks ahead of him on the depth chart suffered injuries, it was up to the third-string quarterback to sweep in and save the day. All of it came after Williams was in an accident on Tuesday that totaled his car; Williams walked away without so much as a scratch.
The twist on this season-ending miracle is that Williams announced that he will forgo his last year of eligibility. Usually, when a player makes that sort of announcement, it’s because he has chosen to declare for the NFL draft. Not Williams — he’s leaving college football for something much more inspiring.
The Athletic reports that Williams has chosen to become a Navy SEAL. It’s a dream that Williams has harbored ever since he heard a Navy chaplain speak at a Fellowship of Christian Athletes event.
After watching America’s trust fund babies and Ivy League spoiled brats trying to turn Islamist jihadi terrorists into celebrities and online heroes after murdering and raping Jewish children, women and men, it is about time to tell the other story of real people of substance, grit and courage.
Williams will graduate with his master’s degree in December, and all the while, he has been training with a former SEAL with whom the chaplain connected him. Aggies head coach Blake Anderson says that this unconventional choice is the right one for the quarterback.
“The guy is just unique in every sense. I think his true sense of selflessness and fight for the guy next to him is something that’s tangible and real. You can see it,” Anderson told The Athletic. “His capacity for work and to do tough things and to fight through things that are hard, difficult, and painful is just something that, in our society today, is hard to see. I think he’ll do an amazing job. I can’t imagine having anybody better suited for what he’s wanting to do. I’m super proud of the path he’s chosen.”
and,
“I just want to be in a spot where I can protect this great country where we get to play football with the freedom to do that. I think this is the best country in the world. So I’d like to keep it that way and protect it as long as I can.”
Williams is leaving the gridiron for a different kind of heroics. For that, he deserves our prayers and admiration. I wish him the best as he serves this country.
All is not lost. We have a nation of great kids out there.
Don’t forget to watch the video at the link in which Levi Williams wins the game for Utah State in the last seconds after dropping the ball from his center.
Back when I would run down to Lafayette to do some business and was still eating shellfish, I would always stop at the old Landry’s restaurant in downtown to sit at the bar and have a big platter of fried oysters. There was nothing like them anywhere except maybe for Willie G’s over on Post Oak near San Felipe.
Interesting discussion of the use of “purposely vs. purposefully”.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/purposely-purposefully-usage
Note: The fried oysters and gumbo at the Orleans restaurant in Katy were simply perfect. I will be returning.
In my opinion there was no gratuitous gore or sex in the film. Others might disagree. But I really despise gratuitous gore and sex.
Unless you’re Tom Cruise, you simply are not going to get the investors to finance a gigantic epic film story anymore. Nobody in their right mind trusts those Hollywood people anymore.
I purposely did not read any of the reviews of the film Napoleon.
I’m sure the LGBT crowd wanted Napoleon depicted as a cross-dressing shemale.
I will give an extra kudo or two to the woman who played Josephine.
Most importantly, I scored a Taylor Swift “The Eras Concert Film” Commemorative Drink Cup at the theater.
🙂
If you like history, period pieces, and quality battle scenes, I recommend it.
It sure has gotten a lot of criticism and not only from the typical lefty LGBTQ film critic crowd. That is exactly why I took a chance on it. I figured that surely they wouldn’t try to pollute the story with a bunch of phony identity politics BS. And they didn’t. Is it the blockbuster, incredible epic film that it… Read more »
Texpat @ 5:20, Nope, FM out of Montgomery peters out about Troy but maybe I can check out Beth Shaver on the 1819news.com website. Thanks for the heads up. 😉
I almost wish I had been there to see the WEF crowd literally fainting and falling out of their chairs when the host and organizer of the biggest “climate change” conference of the year said… The president of the COP28 climate summit, Sultan Al Jaber, recently claimed there is “no science” that says phasing out fossil fuels is necessary to… Read more »
39 Shannon It sure has gotten a lot of criticism and not only from the typical lefty LGBTQ film critic crowd. I wanted to see it because A) I’m a fan Ridley Scott and B) Nobody makes epic, cast-of-thousands Big Stories about history anymore. The last one I went to see was probably Braveheart and that was almost 30 years… Read more »
Joaquin Phoenix was a draw for me, but I don’t think he had to stretch his considerable skills too far in this one.
The Josephine part of the story may have been a tad much but they had to throw the women customers a bone.
In the end, it is story of war and politics.
Surprised at the comfy seating at the Katy Cinemark. There wasn’t much of a crowd at all for the 2:40 matinee.
The opening scene is the beheading of Marie Antoinette.
What more could you ask for?
🙂
I had a few hours to kill before my supper appointment.
Turned off my phone and walked through the doors of a movie theater for perhaps the first time in 20 years.
To see Napoleon.
I enjoyed it. Might want to brush up on your basic French history. 🙂
Super Dave I don’t know if WERC-FM out of Montgomery will reach you down in LA, but they have a show that has Amie Beth Shaver on often as a guest. She is a writer, conservative activist and former 1994 Miss Alabama. Brunette, tall…sheesh. Shaver is a contributor for the 1819news.com website over there and it looks like a pretty… Read more »
Meanwhile, Pope Frankie has fired a respected, retired conservative American cardinal and thrown him out on the street in Italy. Then he twice accused Israel of being terrorists for fighting back against Hamas. Now, today in a speech given by his consigliere for him in Dubai, Frankie has blamed free, open and capitalistic countries around the world for “climate change”… Read more »
If the world is waiting for Russia to start massive invasions using the Russian Navy, they will be waiting a long time. Their infantry can’t beat a ragtag Ukrainian army. The only thing they have are some subs, missiles and an air force. They can wreak all kinds of havoc, but they can’t really mount a 21st century military… Read more »
It’s not on Pfriday?
Yabbut they’re not as effective unless you also have the Healing Crystals and Energy Pyramids.
it should not be forgotten that China could field a 100 million man army and lose them all and still keep going All true, but there are limited places they can go with all those guys. They could head west, but they’d have a huge logistical tail to deal with before they even got to Kashmir, of which the Indians… Read more »
ANALYSIS: Trans activists tell straight, gay people they can’t have ‘genital preferences’ The debate is the latest example of the fallout of queer theory–concepts taught in college courses that attempt to erase biological reality. ‘Radical Gender Theory, and intersectionality as a whole, is a tool by cultural Marxists to keep people divided in struggle and on the defense as victims,’… Read more »
One more quote from Louise Perry.. As Canada slips down its slippery slope, the legalization of infanticide is being discussed quite calmly within its government. In October, Louis Roy of the Quebec College of Physicians told the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying that parents should be able to arrange the deaths of babies up to one year… Read more »
Well my boy already has tickets to the Rose Bowl, snagged them as soon as he found out Alabama was ranked #4. The funny thing is that not long after he got to Kalifornia Alabama was to be in the Rose Bowl so he naturally wanted to go but the game was moved to Texas because of the COVID BS!… Read more »
In other news: Kutztown U – 31 Slippery Rock – 7 The final statistics don’t tell the story. No. 15 Slippery Rock ran roughshod over Kutztown, outgaining the Golden Bears, 502-203. Kutztown finished with just 11 first downs, two in the second half, when it held the ball for only about 8 minutes. And it ran zero plays from scrimmage… Read more »
From Chaya Raichik’s Libs of TikTok: Cosmopolitan magazine who claim to be the “largest young women’s media brand in the world” promoted a “satanic abortion” ritual to empower women getting abortions. This is demonic. And for the encore from the UK, Louise Perry explains in her essay, We Are Repaganizing. There’s a very short and very brutal poem by the Scottish… Read more »
Morning, chickadees! Sudoku took me 1 hour, finished with no errors. Now I’ve gotta head out to Kroger. I discovered last night that I was totally out of the dog crunchies that I feed to the hungry backyard night-time critters. I put out extra corn kernals for them, but they didn’t eat all of that. I’m hoping daytime birds will… Read more »
The WIP, I like the Dolly in 77 and dolly @ 77. 😉
Steve Hayward’s Powerline Week in Pictures Smackdown Edition
Good morning all. Happy December 3rd. Coffee!
In other news, the Troy State Trojans beat Appalachian State to win the Sun Belt. Oddly enough the Sun Belt game took place in a downpour. 😉
GJT Prayers for your dad, I know it’s tough.
Mornin’ Gang
Our dad is still in the hospital. Wednesday we made the decision to take him to Tomball Hospital but they did not have a GI on staff, this turns out to be an issue with several, and finding one that took transfers. Anyway, ended up at Memorial Hermann The Woodlands. He needed two more bottles of blood, they did a… Read more »
Tap, tap
Ugliest football game I ever saw.
Believe it it not, BCS tried to pick a fight with me on the day of GC’s funeral. Even after I told her that I was also grieving the loss of another friend and had to miss that funeral to be in Lufkin today. She did it in a sibling text, fortunately, so her behavior was on full display. One… Read more »
Tonight, Florida State has already played their way out of consideration. Win or lose.
IMO.
Neither of these offenses deserve to be in the playoffs – FL State nor Louisville.
Its 3-0 in the 3rd QTR.
😀
Trying to be objective about the Bama and Dawgs game, Id’ say that both teams played well and I think it came down to the team that wanted the win the most. That said, Bama’s defense sure played a big part.
#18 Shannon, yup my boy was talking about the chaos and said something I hadn’t thought of, what about Georgia? They were #1 and only lost one game. As for Florida State, they usually don’t make it in the play-offs since their schedule isn’t nearly as tough as the rest of the teams.
Good grief. Louisville punter muffs one for 28 yards from his own 2 yard line. In the biggest game of the year.
Bama win throws “The Committee” into chaos.
A FLA State loss would only increase the chaos.
Embrace the chaos!!
Texas QB Ewers sets Big 12 Championship Gsme passing record at 452 yards. Horns also rushed for 195 yards.
663 yards of offense. Not too shabby.
I had to miss the the 2nd half. Looks like it was a good one.
Roll Tide!!! What a game!
All I can say is Roll Tide.
And Louisville, too.
Over yonder I saw a neat picture of Cathy, a friend from high school and her husband getting ready for the big game. A house divided. 😀
Way to go Longhorns.
It’s been a painful 14 year drought of Championships.