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He grew up as the oldest of seven children, raised between Pahokee and Orlando, Florida.
Three weeks ago he was sitting on another team's practice squad, and on Sunday he will start at quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles.
His name is Joe Milton III, and he is 26 years old.
Somebody once asked him how he had ended up running a locker room that was not supposed to be his, and he did not have to think about the answer.
"I'm the oldest of seven. I've been that my whole life. I'm comfortable," he said.
He has spent most of the last eight years as somebody's backup.
At Michigan he sat behind Shea Patterson for two seasons and threw eleven passes in eight games. He won the job in 2020 and started three games before he lost it to Cade McNamara.
So he transferred to Tennessee, where they handed it to him in 2021. He got hurt against Pittsburgh, and by the time he was healthy the job belonged to Hendon Hooker.
He stayed where he was and he ran the room anyway, from the backup spot, and the people around him noticed it.
In November of 2022 Hooker tore his ACL. Milton started the rest of that season and threw for 251 yards and three touchdowns in the Orange Bowl, beating Clemson 31-14, and they named him the most valuable player of the game.
"He didn't shy away from it," offensive coordinator Joey Halzle said, "but he also didn't become fake and change the way he was."
Before the following season he signed a deal with Beats by Dre, and he used it to put a pair of headphones on every locker in the building. They retail for 349 dollars. He attached a message to each one.
"Through thick and thin we have each other's back. I ride for you because you're my brothers."
"I may be the leader on the team, but I'm still being a servant every day," he said.
He started all 12 games that fall and threw for 2,813 yards and 20 touchdowns, including an 81 yard touchdown run against UTSA.
New England drafted him in the sixth round, 193rd overall, and he went right back to being the third quarterback in the building.
In Week 18 of his rookie year they finally gave him a game. He completed 22 of 29 passes for 241 yards, threw a touchdown and ran one in himself, and New England won 23-16.
They traded him to Dallas, where he sat behind Dak Prescott and got into four games. This past summer the Cowboys waived him at final cuts and re-signed him to their practice squad.
On October 16 the Eagles signed him off it. Jalen Hurts is on injured reserve with blood clots and is not expected back this season.
Today Adam Schefter and Mike Garafolo reported that Sunday against the Giants belongs to Milton.
He has played in five NFL games, and every single one of them was as a backup.
The oldest of seven finally gets a room of his own.
Ryan Wagner retweeted
Following a viral post of Commanders fans stuck inside the Vienna Metro station after riding home from Sunday night’s game, Metro tells 7News it is looking into why the station’s gates were locked when the fans tried to exit. wjla.com/news/local/metro-re…
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🚨 MARYLAND FALLS 20 SPOTS IN NATIONAL JOBS RANKING — WES MOORE’S ECONOMIC RECORD FACES ANOTHER SETBACK
Gov. Wes Moore continues promoting Maryland as a destination for businesses and workers. But the latest economic numbers tell a far less encouraging story.
WalletHub’s 2026 Best States for Jobs ranking places Maryland 32nd nationally, down from 12th last year, while federal labor figures show 20,100 payroll jobs lost in just two months.
▪️ 20-PLACE COLLAPSE: Maryland dropped from 12th to 32nd in WalletHub’s annual assessment of job opportunities and economic conditions.
▪️ 46TH IN JOB GROWTH: Maryland ranks near the bottom nationally, raising questions about the state’s ability to retain employers and expand employment.
▪️ 40TH IN ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT: High costs and weak economic indicators weigh down Maryland’s competitiveness.
▪️ 20,100 JOBS LOST: Maryland shed 11,300 payroll jobs in August and another 8,800 in September, according to federal employment figures.
▪️ NEIGHBORS OUTPERFORM MARYLAND: Virginia ranks 22nd and Delaware 27th, both ahead of Maryland.
Moore has been governor since January 2023. He cannot claim credit for economic successes while treating every setback as Washington’s responsibility.
These rankings alone do not establish what caused Maryland’s decline. But they provide another measurable reason to scrutinize Annapolis’s tax, spending and business policies.
How many more jobs must Maryland lose before Moore explains what his administration will change?
Isn’t Metro @WMATA running a campaign Don’t be traffic to encourage people to use Metro?
Washington commanders fans get locked in the metro.
It took so long for the train to get home that by the time it arrived at the final station, there were no employees there and all the doors were locked.
So tons of people were just trapped.
It normally takes like an hour to get home on the metro but today it took two hours. So everybody was already like frustrated.
Thank goodness the commanders won lol
Anyways, your final update, somebody showed up and let us out. The game ended at 11:27 PM and I got home at 1:59 AM.
I may never Metro again lol
Ryan Wagner retweeted
Washington commanders fans get locked in the metro.
It took so long for the train to get home that by the time it arrived at the final station, there were no employees there and all the doors were locked.
So tons of people were just trapped.
It normally takes like an hour to get home on the metro but today it took two hours. So everybody was already like frustrated.
Thank goodness the commanders won lol
Anyways, your final update, somebody showed up and let us out. The game ended at 11:27 PM and I got home at 1:59 AM.
I may never Metro again lol
Ryan Wagner retweeted
A teenager phoned Pan Am and said someone had stolen his pilot's uniform. Pan Am sent him to its tailor and billed the $289 to its own payroll.
His name is Frank Abagnale. He ran away from home at 16 with no job and no money, and says nobody would pay him more than $1.50 an hour.
So he told employers he was 26. Then he began writing personal checks on a bank account with nothing in it. Shops took them.
The uniform needed an ID card. He bought a model Pan Am plane, softened the decals in water and pressed them onto a blank card.
By his own count he flew about 3 million miles and reached 82 countries. Hotels accepted his checks because airlines had agreed to cover crew checks up to $100.
He was convicted in France, then Sweden, then the United States, and he served his time.
In the video below, you see him explain the uniform call and the decal ID himself, on The Tonight Show, as the studio audience laughs and then applauds.
Watch for the line about shopkeepers:
"Most people don't realize how gullible the average storekeeper is."
Banks later paid him to teach tellers how to spot a bad check. Is hiring a man convicted of passing them smart security, or the wrong lesson?
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Maryland’s attendance is so bad they did a raffle for free tuition for the spring semester for any student who stayed the entire game
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The Marine Corps almost court-martialed one of its best pilots for stopping a mass shooter.
His crime was not asking permission first.
New Orleans, January 7, 1973. Sunday morning. A 23-year-old named Mark Essex gets into the downtown Howard Johnson's with a .44 carbine and a bag of ammunition.
Police already knew him, they just didn't know his name. A week earlier, on New Year's Eve, someone had ambushed New Orleans officers and vanished into the night. That was him.
This time he isn't planning on running.
He moves floor to floor shooting whoever he finds. A couple from out of town. The hotel manager. The assistant manager. He lights fires in the rooms as he goes. Then he climbs to the roof and settles into a concrete stairwell enclosure that might as well be a pillbox.
From up there he can see the whole street, and the whole street can see him. They just can't hit him.
Cops fire up at the roof all afternoon. Essex waits, leans out, shoots, disappears. Officers go down. One of them is the deputy superintendent of the department.
Ten miles away, at the Marine air station in Belle Chasse, Lt. Col. Chuck Pitman is watching it on the news.
He's a Vietnam helicopter pilot with three combat tours behind him. Silver Star. Purple Heart. Four Distinguished Flying Crosses. He looks at that rooftop and sees the obvious answer nobody on the ground has.
Get above him.
Pitman doesn't wait for orders. He finds three Marines who'll go, takes a CH-46 Sea Knight and flies it into the middle of a major American city. He lands near the unfinished Superdome and picks up a team of police sharpshooters.
Then he goes to work.
Pass after pass over the roof. Essex keeps hiding when the helicopter comes in and stepping out to shoot at it as it leaves. Pitman notices.
On one run, instead of flying off, he spins the helicopter around and comes straight back.
Essex is out in the open with nowhere to go.
The shooters on board and on the nearby rooftops all fire at once. When it was over, the autopsy counted more than 200 wounds.
Nine people were dead across the week, five of them police officers. Nobody else would be added to that list.
New Orleans made Pitman an honorary police chief.
The Marine Corps opened talks about a court-martial. A lieutenant colonel had just taken a military aircraft into a domestic shootout on his own authority.
It took F. Edward Hébert, the New Orleans congressman who happened to chair the House Armed Services Committee, to recommend the Corps let it go.
It did. Pitman went on to help plan the 1980 hostage rescue attempt in Iran and retired a lieutenant general.
Not bad for a guy who once stole a helicopter.
Ryan Wagner retweeted
Aaron Rodgers sat at that podium in Paris and said out loud what the corporate league office spends millions trying to sanitize.
The NFL talks endlessly about “player safety” and “expanding the global game.” But behind closed doors, owners scrapped player-friendly bye weeks, forced a brutal 17th regular-season game, and shipped franchises across oceans simply because there was another dollar to squeeze out of foreign TV markets.
While families and players navigate locked-down streets, civil tension, and grueling travel schedules, ownership sits in five-star suites counting international expansion checks.
Rodgers doesn't care about league fines anymore. He’s telling you the truth: in the modern NFL, the brand and the balance sheet come first. The humans on the field come second.
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🚨🚨THIS IS AWESOME🚨🚨
Northwestern’s football program sent its SPECIAL TEAMS unit around campus to find hidden kicking talent among students.
Players challenged random students to kick field goals & the reactions were priceless.
One of the best college football videos ever.
Ryan Wagner retweeted
The great Johnny Carson was the undisputed king of late night
He poked fun at everyone, he talked to everyone
The Carson Tonight Show ran for decades and was an era of late night television comedy that may never be seen again
Here he portrays Ron Reagan doing a comedy sketch reminiscent of several very famous routines
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The WNBA won’t define the W.
And the WNBA won’t enforce the rules for the National Anthem
The WNBA’s own rulebook requires players to stand for the National Anthem.
A league that writes rules it refuses to enforce has a leadership problem, not a rulebook problem.
@WNBA @WNBAComms
#TheVIBE
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Seconds before the national anthem begins, players from both WNBA Finals teams jog off the court. And for the third straight game, they don't return until the song is over.
The Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries repeat the routine Wednesday night at State Farm Arena, despite league rules requiring players, coaches and trainers to stand in line during the anthem.
@Outkick reports that the WNBA, both teams and the NBA have yet to answer questions about the repeated absences or whether any disciplinary action is being considered.
See what else OutKick observed during the Game 3 anthem: foxnews.com/outkick-sports/a…
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The NFL and the Philadelphia Eagles almost killed Jalen Hurts for a Week 5 international showcase.
The full details of what happened behind closed doors in London just surfaced, and the negligence is staggering.
Before kickoff in London, Hurts was in a hospital bed until 4:00 AM undergoing emergency vascular testing. Medical staff instructed him not to sleep because sleep was considered an active health risk.
Instead of shutting down their $255 million franchise quarterback, the team cleared him to play 60 minutes of brutal, high-impact collision football on zero sleep.
Then, they loaded him onto a pressurized, 8-hour transatlantic flight back to Philadelphia.
Every doctor on the planet knows that long-haul flights and cabin pressure are the exact triggers that cause lower-extremity blood clots to break free. The Eagles spent days assuring the public it was just a "minor, superficial calf clot".
Now the truth comes out: the clot dislodged, shot through his bloodstream, and caused multiple pulmonary emboli in his lungs.
Hurts is officially out for the season, placed on blood thinners where taking a single routine tackle could cause a fatal internal hemorrhage.
He isn't just lucky to play football again, he is lucky to be alive.
When the NFL preaches "player safety," remember this moment. They ran a human being into the ground for television ratings in the UK, almost lost him to a preventable medical catastrophe, and cratered their entire season in the process.
Who inside that building signed off on letting him play and board that flight?
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The DC Council should take a real look at SFO. For the safety of DC Residents, let’s hit the brakes. We already face obstacles navigating city streets and an over-burdened 911 system. DC Firefighters have no training on how to handle Waymos.
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🛶On October 14, 2005, while reporting on flooding in New Jersey for NBC’s ‘Today Show,’ correspondent Michelle Kosinski infamously paddled a canoe during a live segment, only for two pedestrians to stroll through the shot, revealing the water to be just a few inches deep
