Anon01/29/26, 01:41No.64814842
>Go to school on sports scholarship
>Somehow plays college football without being arrested for anything
>228th in the NFL draft, gets a paltry $20,000 signing bonus
>Two years later, turns down a $9 million contract to stay with the Cardinals (the CARDINALS for fuck's sake) because it's HIS team, his buddies
>Decides not to take a $3.6 million deal to stay with the Cardinals and instead quietly joins the Army after 9/11
>Marries his high school sweetheart right before he signs up
>Takes enlistment oath alongside his brother
>Could have spent his time in uniform giving speeches at high schools, convincing retarded teenagers that the military was just like playing Halo
>Probably could have spent two years in the basement of the pentagon getting paid to smoke weed all day all because some general was a Sun Devils fan, gotten out, had a shitty autobiography ghostwritten, gone on a pro-war/anti-war media tour, and then run for congress, or just went back to playing football for a million dollars a year.
>He doesn't even try to turn his marketing degree into a commission.
>Could have used his fame, money, and good looks to become the biggest dirtbag enlisted man since Snuffy Smith
>Volunteers for the rangers instead
>Scrolled, not tabbed
>Tour in Iraq, tour in Afghanistan
>Wartime diary is full of how much he loves his wife, parents, and brother
>Has the pretty reasonable opinion that Afghanistan was necessary but Iraq was unjustified, largely keeps it to himself.
>Killed in friendly fire incident, huge coverup for political reasons, big scandal, congressional hearings, gets roped into all of it when he'd probably want to stay quietly dead.
>Dies not just a grunt, but the most enlisted of all, an E-4
>Even his posthumous 'promotion' is a sideways one from Specialist to Corporal
>Literally looks like he's had a gigachad filter applied.