williams, jackson d.

[jack williams]

full name Jackson Daniel Williams nicknames Jack, J date of birth 19.09.1990 (24) home town Odessa, Texas current city Odessa, Texas education High School Degree occupation -- ________________________________________ JACK WILLIAMS, #7, FULL BACK. ODESSA LIONS. HIGHLIGHT REEL. INTERVIEWER: What are your interests? JACK WILLIAMS: My interests… I like football and I love, you know, playing on Friday nights. And hopefully, I can play Saturday nights. That's college night. INTERVIEWER: What single characteristic as a football player do you think defines Jack Williams? COACH ROBINSON: Toughness. I have never seen a kid with more fortitude than Jack Williams. No fear. INTERVIEWER: What's your favorite memory of your brother playing football? TOMMY WILLIAMS: Watching him get that ring back. After all we been through together, see him win State, that was that was probably the happiest day in my life. I'm just really proud of him. ________________________________________ "Jack and I go way back. I always got that feeling we’d be some of the last left here together, and boy was I right.. maybe not in the way I thought though. We were together for awhile in high school, I thought it was everything back then, it’s almost funny to think about it now. I swore up and down I was gonna marry that boy! I loved him, and I’m pretty sure he loved me.. he had a funny way of showing it. I think it was hard for both of the Williams’ boys to come around to the idea. He was a handful then. Hard to make happy, hard to make care, hard to make talk. I remember the day we broke up. He was out in those damn fields, shooting by himself. I’d just found out he’d hooked up with one of the new freshman. We’d both had our moments, but we said we’d stop, so I’d already had it. I just remember talking and talking, asking him if he even wanted this, eventually if he even cared, he said nothing. I remember realizing then that he didn’t care. It wasn’t easy to accept at first, but after while I did. And it was around then that he tried coming back, and by then I’d already realized we were never meant to be. He never looked at me the way he looked at her, he didn’t light up when I was around like that, I could never make him want more.. but she did, she does. As much as I was happy for him, I’m sad for him. Because I don’t think she’ll ever love him how he loves her. So until then, it’s me, Jack, and Texas." Abby White, ex-girlfriend/friend "He’s everything I hate about where I came from. I didn’t realize it then, he was one of the guys, we all wanted the same shit. But we started growing up, and some of us started realizing we wanted more than this. When it was all fun and games, just shooting the shit, Williams was your guy. When you needed your full back, he killed it. He was great to play with. You knew you could depend on him to block the defense. You knew he was gonna knock ‘em out for you. You knew he was gonna give it his all. Problem was he was only that way when you needed him to be, which sounds like a good thing at first.. but not when you consider everything that happened outside of game time. It’s like it took something in him, like he needed some grandeur reason to act like he wasn’t such a fucking asshole. It got old when 99% of the time there was no good reason, other than some decency. I bet he’s still the same way, they all are. Hanging out in the same bars, talking about the time they we won state, buying out their mama’s houses.. it’s sad, and pathetic." Michael Ramirez, former teammate "I was 18 when Walt walked out, J was 12. I don’t give him any credit, other than lasting eight years longer than Stacy did with us. I thought 18 was all about booze, freedom, cigarettes, doing whatever the hell you wanted - not taking on guardian status for your little brother. But I had no choice, so I declined my ASU offer.. which worked out for the better. Texas forever. All the bullshit on deadbeat parents aside, J’s a little shit. Always has been. He was the worst in high school, fighting me left, right, and center like I wanted to be doing this. Ungrateful for me working two jobs to put him through school. He still glorified dad in a way, acting like I was the one he should be pissed at, not the man who walked out on us, if you could even call him a man. He was always drunk - which was partially my fault, supplying the beer - and getting pissed about something, blowing off school, showing up at practice hung over, a pain in my ass. Things have gotten better since he’s gotten older, for the most part. He’s loyal, a good uncle, there are 75% less fits thrown at me.. he did more than I thought he would, too. Gave college a shot, enlisted, bought the land he’d always talked about." Tommy Williams, brother “I have at least fifteen guys coming into my office on a daily basis. Some have known this is what they wanted all along, others can’t afford college yet, some knew it was the only thing that could put them in place.. Williams didn’t fit in with the rest. I knew about the kid before hand, had watched him play on Friday nights.. the last thing I expected was for him to being walking in telling me he was ready to enlist. He’d never mentioned it the few times we were in the same place, he had at least ten full ride offers, and as far as I knew, he wasn’t headed down the road of delinquency. I wondered why in the hell he would want this, and then it clicked. He was a patriot from Texas, who was pissed off. Talk about a triple threat. We had him sign his contract that day, that’s a prospect you don’t risk losing. You know what his sergeants had to say ‘bout him? He made his boys feel invincible. And that’s a damn good soldier.” Jason McGiven, US VA Officer ________________________________________ ________________________________________ CLICK TO LISTEN ________________________________________ your name lexa play-by noah member group resident