In 2002, Pat Tillman was a starting safety for the Arizona Cardinals. He had just come off a season
In 2002, Pat Tillman was a starting safety for the Arizona Cardinals. He had just come off a season where he set a franchise record with 224 tackles and turned down a $9 million contract offer out of loyalty. Then, 9/11 happened. Pat didn’t hold a press conference. He didn’t look for cameras. He simply told the Cardinals he was enlisting in the U.S. Army. He traded his helmet for a Ranger tab, serving in Iraq and Afghanistan before losing his life in 2004. He remains the standard for what it means to put principles over profits.
Is Pat Tillman the most selfless athlete in American history? 👇
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True emerican
American ****
True Hero but they lied to him then about him. Sad.
Murdered by his own soldiers, commonly speculated to be because of his views against the war in the Middle East. RIP Pat, you deserved much better.
He's a legend and an American hero as should all strive to be like
Absolute legend
True hero period
We can only strive to be like the late Pat Tillman. Cream of the crop.
75th !!
RLTW
We owe this man a salute, he’s a got-damned American legend 🫡🫡🫡
Never forget that the American government murdered Pat Tillman for the crime of realizing that the war in Iraq was built on lies. He's a hero and a martyr
Fucking murdered by idiots. Imagine becoming a batt boy and not having positive identification on wjat youre shooting at.. MURDERED
Americas safety
It’s really sad he was killed by his own men. Fuck the military
Hell yeah🇺🇸
One hell of an edit.
Killed by his own people
Not everybody gets a tan beret. Only the real tough niggas
Should have never left the NFL. Goes to show how much your country cares about the ones willing to give up everything to fight in a war that was never ours to fight to begin with
And then his government lied and said he was KIA when he was killed by FF in a training exercise
Legends never die