Even if you don't care one smidgen about sports, I hope you will read this post....
Yesterday, the number one ranked Georgia Bulldogs (from the University of Georgia) were beaten by Auburn University (from Alabama) in a stunner of a game. (27-24) Auburn was an UNRANKED team, which even if you don't know anything about football, you can see what an upset this was. Number 1 vs. No ranking!
If you are interested, you may read this article and it will tell you the details. For the sake of this post, I will say that the Auburn kicker, Alex McPherson basically won for his team in the very last few seconds of the game. (He also had an important field goal earlier in the game). Now, the thing that I want to make sure that you know is this: Alex McPherson went through some extremely serious health issues in 2024. He had severe ulcerative colitis and had his large intestine removed. His weight dropped from 165 to 110. I wonder how many people might have given up ever thinking of playing football again? After successful surgery, he regained his weight and then went on to play brilliantly in 2025. And his performance on this past Saturday was exceptional. Football fans were stunned. However, it is the inspiring story about him that I wanted you to know. I found a really nice piece about him on the Auburn site -
If you don't have the time to read that, I will tell you that Alex McPherson also speaks with young people who are going through the same type of medical experience. I really like what he shared...
"If I had to go through everything I had to go through to be an encouragement or inspiration for someone, then it was all worth it."
Now, in case you are wondering.... I am from Georgia, and I am sure that many Georgia Bulldog fans are not looking up info from the Auburn website today! Still, even if Georgia fans were disappointed after the game, they would have to admit that this is a KICKER of a story!
Oh, and his name might remind you of another kicker in the NFL, his brother Evan McPherson is the kicker of the Cincinnati Bengals!
Our leaves are just beginning to turn. (This was from last year.)
But I promise you that is Autumn for sure, it is time for football!
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