Posted on 03/21/2022 9:33:03 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Jerry Smith, the athletic director at St. Thomas Aquinas, received one of the cruelest phone calls of his life at 11:30 Thursday morning.
Brian Meeney, head football coach at his school and a man who’d long regarded Smith as somewhat of a father figure, died this morning at the age of 46. As Meeney’s brother told Smith, it was the result of a massive heart attack en route to school. No arrangements have yet been announced.
Meeney, who had a particular knack for reviving flagging programs, guided St. Thomas to an undefeated regular season this past fall and an overall record of 9-1 in his third season. The Trojans won four games in each of the previous three seasons and were 2-8 in 2017.
“We’ve had a great relationship for a long time,” Smith said. They’d first met when Meeney was a football player at Iselin Kennedy in the early 1990s and Smith was an assistant coach.
“I’m like the father figure he never had in his life. We had our arguments, but we always had our love,” he said.
An hour and a half after that phone call, Smith made his saddest speech ever when he summoned the football squad to the school auditorium.
“My voice was cracking, I was in tears. You could not believe how these kids responded, with screams and tears and just disbelief. It was devastating. Their grief was just so overwhelming,” Smith said. “So bad we wound up canceling all sports after school today.”
There were only nine football players in the building when Smith became AD four years ago, but 17 athletes with football in their plans entered as freshmen three years ago, Meeney’s first. Meeney had previously coached over a span of 16 years at Newark East Side,
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Is it abnormal that people drop dead suddenly? Thirty years ago a PE teacher was running during lunch and died at a table afterwards in front of his students. I just wonder how many of these events we are reading about are actually normal and we are noticing them because we are looking for them. There is going to be a statistical probability and we need to find out what it is. Meanwhile I am not getting any more Covid shots. Kind of late since I already had three.
The local bartender here in Nashua, NH is also a math teacher and soccer coach at the high school. He is also NOT vaxed.
I think the teachers union actually protected their individual choice.
I would just give you the dime. The fact that he died is not evidence that he was vaccinated for Covid. The likelihood that he was vaccinated is very high. You will get a lot of dimes this way and nobody is going to get the 100. Pick a teacher who didn’t die and the odds will be the same.
He saved a grandma.
Covid cure cures you permanently:-(
The “excess deaths” stat should provide some clues. Are more people dying overall (of any cause)?
Let me be the first to blame it on The End Times, 666, or the Mark Of The Beast. The 5G Network is also a possibility.
Brian Meeney HFC @stahstrojans @stahsedison @sta_trojanarmy #ReturnToPlay @MyCentralJersey pic.twitter.com/n9kjeWcXVt— Marcus A. Borden (@bordenfb4ever) July 21, 2020
Quote: "I am not a scientist or a politician so I follow ANY rules or guidelines. Whatever rules are put into place by Governor Murphy we are going to follow them to a T."
There are nearly 2,000 places across the state where you can get vaccinated or boosted.
If you haven’t gotten your booster dose, get it now.
If you haven’t gotten your first shot, get it now.
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Our latest available data on breakthrough cases again highlights the importance of getting your booster shot.
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Never is a long time,.............
Many bedside employee's took the shot. And many of those flaunted that they had the shot...and had nothing to worry about.
And some of those got COVID again...and were then worried.
I'm in charge of one person..and that is me. I'm not taking the shot ever.
I am in sort of in charge... of two Border Collies..and some Heifers...
I'm about done...doing this Hosp. carp..Seen too much.
I worked in a NICU in SoCal...for many years..LOVED IT!! Many, many, many success stories...!!
Miss that...............
Sudden and unexpected
get woke-go broke
get cv-19 vaccine-die suddenly
They are just so eager to kill millions of people.
I just wonder how many of these events we are reading about are actually normal
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No question about it, they’re all NORMAL according to the companies that are making billions of dollars of profit hawking the vaccines. I trust them completely!
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