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04/21/2026

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03/13/2026

With Carli Taylor – I'm on a streak! I've been a top fan for 15 months in a row. 🎉

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08/16/2025

She walked two miles every day so her son could make it to football practice — and then Lamar Jackson heard her story.

Her name was Angela.

Single mom.
Two jobs.
Zero complaints.

Every evening — whether rain poured, wind bit, or the sun blazed — Angela walked her son Jacob two miles to the high school football field. She’d watch him jog onto the turf, helmet tucked under his arm, chasing the dream that kept his feet moving.

And then she’d wait.

Sometimes for hours.
Sometimes in the cold.
Sometimes with blisters burning her heels and a second shift still ahead.

But she never missed a single day.

One of the coaches finally asked,
“Why don’t you just drive?”

Angela smiled the way tired mothers do — soft, quiet, with a kind of strength you can’t fake.

“We don’t have a car. But he has a dream,” she said. “And dreams don’t wait for rides.”

The coach shared her story in a small community newsletter — a thank-you to a mother most people never noticed, but whose love showed up every single day, mile after mile.

What he didn’t know was that someone else would see it.

Lamar Jackson.

Known for his speed and grit on the NFL field, Lamar was in New York for a charity event when he came across the article.

Two weeks later, after practice, Angela was asked to step into the school parking lot.

There it was — a silver minivan, spotless and gleaming under the streetlights, topped with a purple ribbon, the color of the Baltimore Ravens.

On the dashboard sat an envelope.

Inside was a handwritten note from Lamar Jackson — and it would change everything… 😇

05/20/2025

With Carli Taylor – I'm on a streak! I've been a top fan for 4 months in a row. 🎉

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