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Sione Umufuke retweeted
Maaaaaaaaaaan this is all time funny! My boy sent me this and I can’t stop laughing!
WHO is responsible for this brilliance?
The college football week 9 All-Loss Tiny Desk🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
#blowthewhistle
Ima ALWAYS be for the players 😤
Terry Robiskie says as an NFL head coach he once received a message from his team's owner telling him not to let a player on his team earn his $300,000 contract bonus for total receptions, and says instead of listening to the owner he deliberately called plays to help that player reach the incentive
“Larry Centers was our fullback, and your daddy would always feature him. Your daddy made sure Larry Centers caught six, seven balls a game. He was the best at getting balls in the right hands of the right people.”
“I'll never forget it. We were playing Arizona, which was Larry's old team. Larry came to my office, sat down at my desk, and said, ‘Coach, you know, I didn't make that much money this year on my salary. But I need six catches in this game.’”
“And Norv would always get him seven, nine catches. He said, ‘I need six catches in this game. If I get those six catches, man, I got a $300,000 bonus.’ And I turned and looked at him. I said, ‘Three hundred? Are you crazy? I don't make but $140,000. I'm the head coach!’”
“He said, ‘Coach, man, I gotta get these six catches for this $300,000, man. I'll give you a thousand.’ I said, ‘Okay, good. Give me a thousand!’ But right then, that guy wanted to know, ‘Coach, do you really care about me?’ You know what I mean? And I know that I got a little note from the owner of that team saying, ‘Don't let that guy get them six catches.’”
“I threw him seven balls in the first quarter. I made sure he got them. I never got my thousand dollars from him. I gotta get my thousand! But I made sure he had his incentive. And I told the owner, ‘If you don't want him to make that incentive, don't put it in his contract, because I'm the wrong guy.’ I'm the wrong guy.”
And this is the story with my right elbow, left knee, left shoulder, and left ankle.
Sucks.
OH WELL.
Drew Brees says he now throws footballs left-handed and spent years trying to delay the shoulder deterioration his doctor warned was coming
Host: “So you do not throw a football with your right hand anymore?”
Brees: “No, honestly, it’s mainly my wrist... If you gave me a ball right now and told me to throw it, hit something 20 yards away, I’d throw it left hand.”
“Even when Dr. Andrews fixed this back in ’06, he was like, ‘Look, I put your back together. You should be able to have a career. You’re going to have to battle through this rehab, but you are on a fast track for a degenerative shoulder, just with all the damage.’”
“I knew it was going to come at some point. I was just trying to prolong it as long as I could.”
My big boy.
Just turned 13.
3xl glove size. Size 14 cleats. 5’10, 235. And doesn’t train a damn thing but go to school, do his work, chop it up wit his homies, and play his damn Roblox.
Don’t let him start working out 😈
FIRST THINGS FIRST 💯
George Kittle says Christian McCaffrey flew his rehab guy to Cabo for a birthday golf trip, then had everyone waiting to tee off while he got treatment on a massage table
“So this past year, for his birthday, it was right after OTAs. He tells me and Juice, ‘Hey, I’m taking some of my high school buddies down to Cabo. Would love for you guys to come down for a couple days. We’re just going to golf and hang out.’”
“And we’re sitting there, we’re all ready to go. Everyone’s excited. And Christian is on a massage table getting work done by one of his rehab guys who he flew down to Cabo to get treatment.”
“And we’re all just sitting there like, ‘Christian, it’s June 2nd. You’re going to be okay. Get off the table. Let’s go drink some beers. Let’s go golf.’ And then guess what he did? He got off the table and he had an excellent round of golf with the boys.”
Sione Umufuke retweeted
Some of y’all are really upset because I have WHITE children in my program. It’s been constant in my DMs etc.
And I’m not apologizing for helping a child.
You can debate race, privilege and politics all day. I’m dealing with actual children standing in front of me who need guidance, structure, skills and people who care about them.
When they walk through my doors, they’re MY boys.
They’re going to learn. They’re going to be challenged. They’re going to be corrected. And they’re going to be loved.
I’ve had to grow and challenge some of my own prejudices over the years too.
But one thing I know now: a child’s skin color will NEVER be my reason for refusing to pour into him.
Sione Umufuke retweeted
Tyrann Mathieu says Patrick Peterson helped him pay his rent one month while in college together at LSU, but with a condition, he would work so hard he would never have to ask for help again
“I remember I called you. It was like a month before we went to camp. I said, ‘Big bro, I don’t know how I’m going to pay the rent this year.’
“That’s a common story with young players. They think they’ve got money that they don’t necessarily have, so they spend a certain way. It was just a hard lesson.
“I remember you came down, you had the Chase envelope in your hand, and you gave me more than what I needed. But I remember what you told me before you walked back inside. You looked me in my eye and said, ‘Bro, this is the last time.’
“That stuck with me like 12 years later. Even though you were hard on me, you made me accountable. You knew what I needed.”
Patrick Peterson: “And I’m hard on you, right? But I wanted so much of you, and I knew what it was going to take to get that out of you so you could see it. Because I used to tell you this, when I was growing up, I saw so many guys with crazy athletic ability, but they wasted it.
“I didn’t want you to waste what you got. You were special. So therefore, I’m going to give you everything that I can to make you the best player and person that you are.
“Going back to when you say I was hard on you, to this day, that’s what my girls tell me. ‘Daddy, you’re so hard on us.’ But then when we have Thanksgiving or Father’s Day, they appreciate it.
“That’s my job. I know it may be mundane or you don’t feel like listening to it right now, but that’s my job, to see around the corner before you get there. To guide you through certain things, help you make better decisions, or help you maybe think differently. That’s my job.”
And got absolutely NO love from the league 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
Pita Taumoepenu (LB)
• 1yr with VGS Vipers
• 3yrs with STL Battlehawks
• All-XFL (2023)
• XFL DPOY (2023)
• XFL Forced Fumbles Leader (2023)
• All-UFL (2025)
• UFL DPOY (2025)
• UFL Sack Leader (2025)
Best edge rusher in Spring Football 🏈
#UFL
Sione Umufuke retweeted
I could never hate New Orleans or anyone that’s part of the @Saints organization. I was young dumb and bitter it is what it is but after healing and getting therapy I realize how much Accountability that I was Lacking I am grateful for the time and opportunity. S/o Mickey Loomis
This sh* hard bro 💯 you doin some REAL work.
Gone always be one of my favorite rushers.
I could never hate New Orleans or anyone that’s part of the @Saints organization. I was young dumb and bitter it is what it is but after healing and getting therapy I realize how much Accountability that I was Lacking I am grateful for the time and opportunity. S/o Mickey Loomis
I keep telling yall over and over and over again, and agin, and again, but a lot of yall just don’t listen.. go crazy toko 💯 that’s a TRAINER right there too 💯
This got real personal.
There ain’t 128 outside rushers better than him.
I wish I could explain how handcuffed m brother is and has been by spring league DCs, but that’s ok; if he hasn’t said nothin, neither am I.
If you need to get to the QB, CALL.
Sione Umufuke retweeted
Rick Rubin describes his daily struggle:
“There is a part of me that doesn't want to show up for anything and I have to overcome that every day.”
“I'm lazy. It's a real part of it. I'm telling you an honest piece of this which is every day it's not like "Let's go!”
Every day it's like "Oh no. I've got to go work.”
My conversation with @RickRubin
0:00 Less Is More But Harder
2:00 Def Jam From The Dorm Room
4:00 Capturing Club Energy On Record
6:00 Going Deep On Influences
12:30 Why Reduced By Rick Rubin
14:00 Beatles Structure Meets Rap
16:00 The Ruthless Edit
19:30 Eminem: The Most Obsessive Artist
22:00 Lazy Workaholic
25:30 Protecting The Moment Of Magic
29:00 Dana White And Becoming A Podcaster
32:30 Professional Listener
44:00 Fishing And Showing Up
47:00 Johnny Cash And Constraints
55:30 Church Business vs. Banking Business
58:50 Run On Intuition Alone
1:01:00 Jay-Z vs. Eminem Process
1:04:30 In Service Of The Artist
1:09:00 Work As Diary Entries
1:13:30 Four Ways Success Destroys You
1:16:00 How To Sustain Success
1:21:00 The House On The Mountain
Includes paid partnerships.
Sione Umufuke retweeted
Keldon Johnson on his role with the @spurs: “I remember a couple years ago, I had a hard conversation with Pop. One morning, we were getting ready to play Dallas, and he pulled me to the side and told me that he thought it would be best for the team if I started coming off the bench. I said, ‘Yeah, of course. Whatever’s best for the team, I’ll do it.’ And I truly meant that, too.
But I’m also just human, man. And I was like 24 years old. If I said that I fully bought into this role from the jump, I’d be lying. I had averaged 22 points in the NBA. I’d won a gold medal with Team USA at the Olympics. So I just didn’t understand. I couldn’t wrap my head around it. And ultimately, I didn’t take it well. I sulked. I let the outside noise affect my play. I didn’t present the best version of myself as I was coming off the bench for the rest of that season. And I knew that I was much better than that.
I’ve been reflecting on that part of my journey a lot lately, with the position we’re in right now.
To backtrack a little bit…. When I was drafted in 2019, that was probably one of the most stressful nights of my life. I’d had a great year at Kentucky, and I thought I was going 9 or 10. In my mind, my floor was 15 to Detroit. The crazy thing is, I didn’t even work out for San Antonio. We talked a little bit on FaceTime, but I honestly didn’t think I’d still be on the board at 19 when the Spurs picked. Definitely not at 29, where I ended up going. I don’t know why I slipped so much, but thank God I did, because I landed at a proven organization with vets who could mold me.
That situation could have gone one of two ways. Thankfully, it went the good way.
Dejounte was young, too, but he knew the ropes better than me, and he made sure that I did everything the right way. I can’t thank him enough to this day for how much he’s helped my career. Same thing with DeMar DeRozan. Those guys really embraced me and took me under their wing as a young guy, and showed me how it was done. I feel like I had such a great group of vets, whether it was LaMarcus Aldridge, Patty Mills, Rudy Gay — all those guys went out their way to make sure I was solid. I feel like they knew how good I could be before I even knew how good I could be. They didn’t let me skip any steps, which was huge for my career early on.
And yeah, fast-forward to summer 2024, and I got to thinking back on my first couple years here in San Antonio, and how I could get that spark back, get back to being me. That’s when I started to see the bigger picture. We had picks. There were all these signs that we were building something that was gonna be special, all these bright green flags.
But there was this one red flag.
Me.
In that moment, I had to take a hard look in the mirror. And man, I just got embarrassed. I hated that feeling — the feeling that I had let my vets down, and especially let my younger teammates down.
This organization believed in me since day one, when Pop and our GM at the time R.C. Buford took a leap of faith on a player who was sliding in the draft and didn’t even have a workout at their facility. They had a plan, and I was a big piece of that plan. I just needed to get out of my own way. Period.
I knew that I could either be the person who tries to fight the change, who makes it about them and their ego, and tries to do everything their way (which never really works). Or, I could trust the process. And the Spurs never gave me a reason not to trust it. So I bought into my role, and I put my best foot forward each and every night. Whatever I had to do to be the best version of myself, I did it. And I feel like this season has been a testament to that.
I’m just really at home here. I think that’s probably obvious, right? The cowboy hat isn’t a gimmick. San Antonio is all me. Being a country boy, that’s just a part of who I am. From Huntington Prep to Oak Hill Academy to Kentucky, I feel like I just carried that country boy vibe with me everywhere I went.” playerstribu.ne/KJ
Sione Umufuke retweeted
from only one year of high school ball to the pros, Pita Taumoepenu has enjoyed every step of his journey.
@RbAofStLouis