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What is wrong with Herschel Walker?

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  1. Xopher

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    If all of his illegitimate children vote for him, he will win in a landslide.
     
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    “… all this pressure to be bright.

    I got children all over town”.



    “Hard being black and gifted….”
     
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  3. Amiga

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    9/30-10/4 poll so before the 'paid for abortion' news. Just one poll, but shows the clear split between Gov and Senate race.

    Warnock 50, Herschel 38, others 5%, undecided 7%
    Kemp 47, Abrams 45

    SurveyUSA Election Poll #26523

    SurveyUSA's latest polling in the state of Georgia, conducted exclusively for 11Alive News in Atlanta from 09/30/22 through 10/04/22, shows Democratic incumbent US Senator Raphael Warnock defeating Republican Herschel Walker 50% to 38% in an election today, 10/05/22. 5% of likely voters say they will vote for another candidate; 7% are undecided.

    In the race for Governor, Incumbent Republican Brian Kemp is today 2 points ahead of Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams, as was the case when SurveyUSA last polled the contest in late July.
     
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    I've been a Georgia football fan for over 40 years but it is a well-known fact that Herschel Walker is a kook. He even said that he had multiple personalities when he played at UGA over 40 years ago. His coach Vince Dooley said, quote (paraphrasing), I don't know all about that but the one personality I enjoyed the most was the one that played football for me.
     
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    Somebody needs to slap the **** outta this n!gga...what a disgrace this man is to every church going Christian, God fearing black person in this country. Really an embarrassment to the human race as a whole regardless of color.

    If you support him @King1 you can go **** yourself.
     
  7. CCorn

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    Complete idiots like MTG in the house are one thing, it’s understandable that she might property represented a district of inbred morons…. But someone like Walker possibly representing an entire state is disgusting.
     
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    `OTHER` HERSCHEL IS A BIG SURPRISE
    By Bill Verigan and New York Daily News
    Chicago Tribune

    Jul 05, 1985 at 12:00 am

    NEW YORK — You`re not prepared for the man you meet in Herschel Walker`s apartment. If you see him only on Sundays, when he is ripping apart linebackers, running over defensive linemen and away from defensive backs, you`re not ready for the other Herschel Walker.

    The other Herschel Walker speaks so softly he`s sometimes difficult to hear. ''I`m taking speech lessons. I think I had a speech impediment when I was little. Nobody said so, but they had trouble understanding me,'' he says. The other Herschel Walker was in college when he had his first date and wound up secretly marrying that same girl two years ago. ''I just didn`t have time for dates between athletics and studying,'' he says.

    The other Herschel Walker has never tasted alcohol and doesn`t smoke. ''I never understood why people used those things,'' he says.

    The toys the other Herschel Walker buys with his millions are not yachts. They are toys. ''He comes home with an armful of toys when he gets a chance,'' says his wife, Cindy. ''Remote control trucks and cars, video games, everything.''


    The other Herschel Walker spends his leisure time watching soap operas and writing poems. ''In elementary school I began writing strange poems, like floating alone in space and death. Those were my feelings. Now, I`m writing about happier subjects,'' he says.

    The other Herschel Walker is a stay-at-home type who break-dances in the privacy of his conservative apartment. He made a rare trip to Studio 54 recently, when the entire New Jersey Generals team was invited. ''I think it`s nice when the team gets to do things together like that, but I`m strictly a low-profile person,'' says Walker.

    The other Herschel Walker says simply: ''I`m just like everyone else.''

    He`s not, of course. He`s an outstanding running back and he makes more than $2 million a year.

    But, when he doesn`t have a football tucked under his arm, Herschel Walker is the same shy, sensitive guy who won Cindy`s heart at Georgia.

    ''I remember how he acted when we met,'' says Cindy. ''I thought he was really weird. He had never dated a girl in his life. They`d ask him out, and he wouldn`t go. And he`d never asked anyone out himself.

    ''I only met him because I ran track with his sister, Veronica, at Georgia. I showed her around the campus, and she introduced me to her brother. He used to come over to my room and just sit there for two hours, doodling on a piece of paper, not saying a word.''

    She is unmistakably from Brooklyn and he`s the kind of person who could only come from a town like Wrightsville, Johnson County, Ga.

    ''The first time I saw it I thought about 10 people lived there,'' says Cindy. ''There`s one real grocery store. There`s a Dairy Queen for the restaurant. The train doesn`t stop there, but it goes right along the track at the bottom of the Walkers` driveway.''

    ''No, no, no,'' says Herschel. ''There are 7,000 people, but I don`t know if that`s the number in the town or the whole county. My goodness, there were more than 10. I have three brothers and three sisters, and with my mother and father, that`s nine of us.''

    Walker was a very big fish in that small pond, not unlike the USFL. His toughest competition was against his brothers and sisters and parents. ''We seven kids could beat any other 12 people in the county,'' he brags.

    When he was still in high school, he was turning the heads of pro scouts. He was only 17 when a man from Montreal visited the Walkers and offered him a $1 million contract to play in Canada, an offer he flatly refused.

    Colleges came after him, offering him more money than their coaching staffs made.

    ''I was a little surprised,'' he says. ''I had thought all along I was going to join the Marines. Then football really turned into fun in my senior year in high school, and the colleges began recruiting me.

    ''Now I believe everything I hear about cheating in college. My parents were struggling to make ends meet, and I could have had $100,000, plus a car, and my parents could have moved to a bigger home. The schools pretend they don`t know what`s happening, but they do. But my family wouldn`t let me accept a thing. That`s not how they brought me up. Georgia was about my last choice in the beginning, but offered me nothing, and that`s one reason I went there.''

    If life in Wrightsville was a culture shock for Cindy, you can only imagine how she looked to the Walkers. Here was a big-city Yankee, a white Catholic in the midst of small-town, black, Southern Baptists.

    ''They loved me,'' she says.

    ''They sure did,'' confirms Herschel. ''You remember when my father sat next to you at that football game. Well, he told me later he was impressed.'' By that time, everybody was impressed with Herschel Walker, too. He probably should have won the Heisman Trophy, but they made him wait until he was a junior. Indeed, he didn`t put on another show like that freshman season until this year.

    During the intervening years, there were questions about his desire. Walker always answered politely, but the questioners still doubted him when they left.

    ''You see, I knew I needed a shoulder operation,'' he says. ''I didn`t make a big deal about it, but the Generals told me during the preseason last year I needed an operation. I just didn`t want it to interfere with the season, and I still got 1,339 yards, which isn`t bad. The difference this year is I`m healthy.''

    Not a single teammate or coach bothered to come see him in the hospital when he finally had the operation.

    ''Cindy is the only one I know will stand by me,'' he says. ''Nobody else came to see me.''

    And there were more questions when the Generals brought in Doug Flutie. How could two millionaire Heisman Trophy winners share the ball?

    They didn`t know Walker. He all but adopted Flutie. They live three floors apart in the same plush condominium in Verona, N.J., and they spend more time with each other than anybody else.

    They also found a way to share the ball until Flutie broke a collarbone. Flutie draws just enough heat to make Walker`s job easier.

    The shoulder operation and Flutie enabled Walker to run for more yards than any back in a single season--2,411. He averaged 5.5 yards for every time he touched the ball and scored 21 touchdowns.

    But things ended on a sour note this season for Walker and the Generals when they lost in the playoffs to Baltimore 20-17. The USFL semifinals will find Oakland at Memphis Saturday and Baltimore at Birmingham Sunday.

    Some people scoff at the yardage Walker gained this year, pointing out that it was gained in a struggling league against inferior competition, but Walker ignores those critics, just as he ignored the critics last year when they said he wasn`t gaining enough yards.

    It has been a season that is almost too good to be true. But then Walker is almost too good to be true, too. Perhaps he shows his emotions the most when he`s writing poetry.

    It`s easy to underestimate quiet people, but that would be a mistake. He has become a successful corporation. He owns three restaurants, a construction company and real estate, but his most lucrative company is Herschel Walker Inc., which handles the personal appearances and endorsements.

    They are squeezed in between classwork to complete his degree in criminal justice at Georgia.

    ''Until last year I had a 3.0,'' he says. ''People always think athletes are given their grades or cheat, but I was always proud of my grades.

    ''My average dropped a little last year, because I made a lot of personal appearances in the offseason. Cindy and I always go together. That`s why we don`t plan to have any children now. We love children, but I wouldn`t be able to see them or Cindy when I traveled.

    ''I`ve grown a lot since I came to the USFL,'' he says. ''I`ve learned a lot about being an athlete, a businessman and dealing with people. Down South, we were all one big family. Here, you struggle. You learn to fight to survive. I just want people to think of me as a good person, somebody who was straight and honest.''

    This is a poem Herschel Walker wrote to his wife:

    ''A Dream''

    For an hour or a minute,

    these moments with you

    Are a dream I had that

    somehow came true.

    The moments we spend,

    like years gone by

    How does love come over

    one, is a question I ask why.

    You`re a doorway to

    heaven, God`s gift to me

    Money I can`t give to you,

    but Lord I thank Thee.

    --Herschel Walker

    https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-07-05-8502130546-story.html
     
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    Demoncrats always reaching. Just because they have a kid together doesn’t mean he knows her.


     
  10. KingCheetah

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    Is this from The Onion?
     
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  12. Xopher

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    A Godly Man!!!

    Genesis 1:28

    God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it"

    Unless it isn't the right time for you. Then have her drink the bitter water and get rid of that hindrance. Then knock her up again and not take care of that kid. Go be fruitful and multiply with other women. Repeat.
     
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    a 12 point lead for Warnock sounds like complete fan fiction…especially when it’s before the paid abortion news
     
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  14. No Worries

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    We can at least deduce that Herschel Walker ... biblically ... knew her.
     
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    I hope more info comes out but the sad truth is the gop doesn't really care and I am not sure it will sway any voters, I think there minds are made up, they will put up with trash like this as long as they get an "R" in the seat, integrity and honor are a thing of the past for the gop.............its all about 1 thing, POWER and nothing else matters
     
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    This is distasteful, repugnant … all the SAT words we can come up with are true and applicable. But let’s be clear, at least it’s honest.

    And that is a lot more than we can say about the vast majority of todays republicans who are out there - - and in here - - moralizing, deflecting, twisting, justifying and lying about their candidates and why they support them.
     
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    That's the GOP in a nutshell. The end justifies the means. They give zero ****s about morality issues, injustice, lies, rapes or murder. They. want. power.

    Know what else fits that description? Fascism.
     
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    It was a little jarring reading that post while seeing your Avatar.:eek:
     
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    Xerobull ...and I'm all out of bubblegum
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    Here comes the Pro Athlete party.

    We make our constituents!
     
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