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For about a week, three people lived in the front seat of a U-Haul in a Walmart parking lot.
The mother drove. The older brother sat in the middle. The youngest slept against the passenger door.
They could not run the engine for the air conditioning, so in the afternoons they walked around inside the Walmart.
The kid against the door is six foot seven now. His name is Darnell Washington, he plays tight end for the Pittsburgh Steelers, and this morning in France he caught a touchdown in a Steelers win.
Mike DeFabo wrote the rest of it down.
The family had been evicted. He finished his freshman year sleeping on a friend's couch, and when that friend moved they packed the truck without knowing where they were going.
After the parking lot they scraped together enough for a few nights at a motel.
Here is how he says it.
"I was homeless a lot."
"I probably can't even put a number on how many apartments we lost."
The family moved every four or five months. He was in foster care until the third grade.
He enrolled at Desert Pines High School in Nevada as a sophomore and was selling raffle tickets for the football team when an assistant coach named David Hill found him in the weight room.
Hill asked where they were living. Then he started paying their rent out of his own pocket, chased down donated shoes, and sometimes put the family up in his own house.
Here is what Washington says about that.
"If he didn't do that, we'd be back on the streets."
In his first year at that school he won a state championship in football, a state championship in basketball, and a state title in the shot put.
Then Georgia, where he won two national championships and mostly blocked, because Brock Bowers was there and the ball went to Brock Bowers.
"When I wasn't getting the ball more, I had to embrace something."
The Steelers took him in the third round in 2023.
Now the brother. Ezekiel is a year older. He got straight A's, he ran training laps carrying a weighted pack, and Darnell says he always did the right thing.
Ezekiel joined the Marines.
So Darnell made him a promise. The first time he ever scored in the NFL, whatever else happened, he was going to salute.
In September of 2024 he caught a five yard pass against Denver for the first touchdown of his career, stood up in the end zone, and saluted.
"I saluted for my brother. He serves right now in Washington D.C."
"So I just told him the first touchdown, that's what I'm going do. So that's what I did."
Be straight about what he is. He caught 57 passes in his first three seasons combined. He is a blocker who scores about once a year, and this is his fourth season.
But in June the Steelers gave him four years and 42 million dollars, and a man who spent a week of his childhood sleeping upright in a parking lot does not have to wonder where he is staying tonight.
What is the smallest thing somebody once did for you that changed everything.
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In case you didn't watch NFL Sunday:
>🏈Seahawks beat Chiefs 20-3 (KC's first loss this szn)
-JSN put up 9 rec, 150 yds & a TD
-Kenneth Walker got PUT IN PRISON by his old team
>🏈Giants beat Texans 27-21 in OT
-JJ McCarthy went 20/28 for 252 in his first start with Giants🐐
-Skattebo ran for 124 & a TD (his first career 100 yd game)
-Nabers became with NYG with 4 straight rec. yds since OBJ
>🏈Lions beat Packers 20-17 on a Jake Bates walk-off
-I dgaf about the Packers but i know a team getting gang banged by a group of refs all night when I see it
-Josh Jacobs scored a TD in his first game back since the alleged (but like... we're not dumb) domestic abuse case, then got down on his knees & prayed to god
>🏈Falcons beat 49ers 29-20 handing them their first loss
-Penix threw 3 TDs & SF turned it over 4 times
-Kendal Daniels sealed it with an INT & a fumble recovery a week after getting stretchered off the field (vid in replies0
>🏈Browns beat Titans 27-24 on a walk off FG
-Deshaun Watson threw for 308 & led his 5th game-winning drive of the szn
-Tony Pollard had 129 yds & 3 TDs in the loss
>🏈Bengals beat Ravens 35-13 after being down 13-0 at half
-Burrow threw 4 TDs
-Ravens are only the 3rd team ever to lose by 20+ after leading by 13+ at half
>🏈Vikings beat Colts 16-10
-Their offense has 10 TDs in 6 games
-Vikings are 6-0 & the last undefeated team in the league
>🏈Steelers beat Saints 16-10 in first ever NFL reg szn game in France (& first during a riot)
-Rodgers threw his 540th TD & passed Peyton Manning for 3rd all-time
>🏈Rams beat Raiders 35-21
-Stafford threw 3 TDs & became the Rams' all-time passing TD leader (he's now Lions & Rams all time leader)
-Raiders lost their 4th straight & Kubiak said they're "thinking about everything" when asked about starting Mendoza
>🏈Bucs KILLEDDD the Panthers 43-13
-Baker only threw 11 passes in his return & Tampa ran for 258
>🏈Dolphins beat Jets 28-25 for their first win of the szn
-Malik Willis had 3 total TDs
-Jets are 0-8 vs the AFC East under Aaron Glenn
>🏈Broncos beat Cardinals 30-16
-Bo Nix had a 62 yd TD run after having 37 rushing yds all szn (vid in replies)
-Cardinals have lost 10 straight home games
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>JSN became the first player since 1966 with 850+ yds & 8 TDs through 7 games
>Azeez Al-Shaair wore the name of an 8 y/o Palestinian girl named Fatima Al-Bayook on his eye black. Fatima was shot and killed in Gaza two days ago.
>📽️Cam Skattebo scored a TD, hit a backflip & the broadcast cut straight to a commercial starring him (📽️ in replies)
>📽️Jonathan Taylor called out people talking on social media about if he’s gonna get traded mid season…
-His wife literally just posted about her and her husband’s trade rumors
>📽️Garrett Wilson got caught screaming in Geno Smith's direction on the sideline while somehow losing to the winnless Dolphins
-He said after he wasn't yelling at Geno
>📽️Kennth Walker ran off the field without saying good game to anybody after the game
>📽️Harrison Smith planted his 40th career INT ball on the 40 yd line to seal the Vikings win
>📽️Devin Singletary hit an OT walk-off TD for Giants win
>📽️Cam Skattebo called out the NFL for using clips of his hard running for social media views while then fining him for the exact same runs
-Honestly a very interesting ethical dilemma that is very interesting to me (this has been going on for years)
>Rest of the NFL injury list: Christian McCaffrey thigh, Aaron Jones knee, Rashid Shaheed knee, Charles Cross ankle, Taylor Moton ankle, Jaylen Wright quad, Tytus Howard concussion, Erick All knee, Kyle Dugger quad, Jaylin Noel toe, T'Vondre Sweat knee
>Let me know what I missed
I post one of these every Sunday night... so follow me pookie
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Falleció Enrique Rocha🥹
QEPD una de las voces más poderosas de la Televisión Mexicana
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New - Senate poll - Ohio
🔵 Sherrod Brown 46.9%
🔴 Jon Husted (Inc) 44.2%
RedBox Research (C-) - LV - 10/23
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New - Senate poll - Michigan
🔵 Abdul El-Sayed 48.9%
🔴 Mike Rogers 44%
RedBox Research (C-) - 10/23
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The people united will never be defeated!
Congratulations, President Lula.
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NO HAY POR QUÉ CONFUNDIR DEMOCRACIA SOCIAL CON POPULISMO Y DEMAGOGIA.
¡FUE UN GRAN TRIUNFO DE LULA! UN LÍDER QUE CONOCÍ BIEN Y A FONDO, DESDE ANTES DE SU PRIMER GOBIERNO.
EL ÚLTIMO DÍA DE ESE GOBIERNO ESTUVE CON ÉL EN SU OFICINA, EN BRASILIA.
¡FELICIDADES, BRASIL! ¡UN GRAN TRIUNFO DEMOCRÁTICO!
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The latest Truth Social post from the president of the United States.
ALT Screenshot of a very long Truth Social post by Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), shrunk into a thin strip in the center of a gray card. The text reads: Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Let’s talk about this COMPLETE AND TOTAL LOSER, Bill Maher. He’s got a Low Rated Show on equally Low Rated HBO, which was once, long ago, a Network of Quality and Excitement — But that’s all gone. It’s not “HOT” anymore! Maher’s friend and business associate, Chuck LaBella, was also a friend of mine, worked on The Top Hit Show, The Apprentice, as a “gofer” and, because of the success of that show, Number One and Top Rated on many weeks, with the Finale’ being among the Top Shows of the Year, he was automatically and quickly brought up through the Ranks of NBC, along with everyone else associated with that Historic “Happening.” The Success of the Apprentice was so great that everyone partook — It built many careers, and that is a wonderful thing. (continues)
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OFICIAL: el cantante Bad Bunny se encuentra celebrando la victoria de Lula en Brasil ! 🙌🏻⭐️
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
El video no es de Bad Bunny celebrando la victoria de Lula en Brasil, sino de un concierto de Residente en Puerto Rico (dic. 2024) donde el artista disfrutaba entre el público como fan.
tn.com.ar/musica/noticia…
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🚨I’m told by @votolatino there were more than 8,000 people in attendance at this event, making it one of the biggest campaign events in Texas this cycle.
.@bobbypulido425 has been retired *a week* and is now back onstage performing with the @tigresdelnorte.
