and now the moment we've all been waiting for the crowning of the Queen
congratulations miss Virginia Lake
before Russell Wilson would lead the Seahawks to a Super Bowl victory and
would sign a four-year 140 million dollar contract extension with the
Seahawks making him the highest-paid player in the NFL for Russell would
marry Ciara and get a couple of disses from her ex future future I bailed on a
pre-grammy party might be because Ciara and Russell Wilson warfront rep before
Russell would found a multi-million dollar app that would get bought out by
Nike like he really needs to money though I mean before he would have more
than 3.9 million followers on Instagram and another 5.4 million followers on
Twitter at the time of this recording research in this video I kind of felt
like Russell Wilson he's the type of dude you love to hate I mean he's got
more bucks in the bank than anyone could imagine and he's got a supermodel for a
wife also there are those rumors about Ciara but I'm sure that's just tabloid
gossip you know I mean for sure no Russell Wilson he said it himself some
people are born athletically gifted but it all depends on what you do with it
now during his formative years he could have gone into any sport he desired he
was the high school quarterback he was a baseball player and he spent some time
with the basketball court
I guess it was well he was good at the other two he went pro what's going on
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Russell Carrington Wilson was born on November 29th 1988 at Chris Hospital in
Cincinnati Ohio - father Harrison Benjamin Wilson the
third and mother Tammy Wilson now Russell's family they have a storied
history his great-great-grandfather was a slave to a Confederate colonel and he
was freed after the American Civil War his paternal grandpa was the President
and Norfolk State University well if paternal grandmother was on the
faculty at Jackson State University and his maternal grandmother was a noted
painter his father was a lawyer for Procter and Gamble and a former to sport
college athlete now Harrison he played football and baseball at Dartmouth
before attending Virginia law school at Dartmouth he was the top receiver on a
team that included three future NFL players now after law school Harrison he
wanted to pursue his NFL dreams he would work out on the school lawn with trash
bags wrapped under two sweatshirts and would have his friends throw bricks to
him too soft in his hands like actual bricks
yeah that's dedication back in the day man
if you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a ball Pharisee gotta try it himself
with the San Diego Chargers after law school and he made it to the last round
of tots but he was able to catch a touchdown pass in a pre-season game
against the 49ers now Harrison he kept the ball and he wrote his name and the
date on it now ironically his two sons well they would use that ball to
practice with their father later on I guess they didn't really care because
you know as a preseason game so his mother she was a nursing consultant and
Russell he has an older brother Harrison the fourth who is one of the closest
people to him in his life and one of his biggest supporters around the age of
four Russell he was throw footballs to his older brother
who wanted to be a receiver now when Russell was just over a year old his
father relocated the family permanently to Richmond Virginia but Russell still
claims Cincinnati as his birthplace and he has strong ties
now Russell he really developed his skills by practicing on the lawn of the
collegiate school in Richmond with his dad and his brother I remember my dad
used to pitch to me when I was four or five years old I'd hit the ball over the
fence and and my grandfather you always tell me oh man he's gonna you're gonna
be a great ballplayer one day son later on the family would add a daughter named
Anna who played basketball at Stanford University and she's gone out to become
a star athlete in the making herself growing up Harrison the four said their
only goal was to get sports scholarships and pay back their parents for sending
them to such a great school k12 no he stayed it there really was no other
option it wasn't like maybe I'll do something different or maybe I won't try
to play two sports that was just what we were going to do Wilson attended
Collegiate School which was a prep school in Richmond and as the junior he
threw for over 3,000 yards and had 40 passing touchdowns along with 600
rushing yards and an additional 15 rushing touchdown
known as senior year high school Wilson threw for over 3,000 yards and rushed
for more than 1,000 now he's named all-conference an all-state player of
the year and he was featured in Sports Illustrated for state championship
winning performance not only that but mr. Wilson was also his high school
president hmm high school president I wasn't viewed out know though he was
recruited by most ACC schools many people were worried about his 511 frame
Virginia they even won Russell to move positions to a defensive back which his
high school coach was absolutely disgusted but it wasn't disgusted the
ladies because he was the stud even back then
there Wilson ended up redshirting freshman at North Carolina State where
he was one of four quarterbacks who are competing for a starting job in 2008
Russel retired in the weight room and on the practice field and he beat out all
the other quarterbacks to win the starting job not only did he start but
he led the conference with 31 touchdown passes and he became the first freshman
to be named a first-team all-acc quarterback but sadly was around this
time that his father he suffered a stroke
now Russell's father he suffered from diabetes and he struggled with health
for much of his life now his father was no longer able to attend games but his
Uncle Ben he would go and then detail to his dad what happens late for play now
he was unable to attend Russell's first game against South Carolina but his
father was able to see him play in a victory against Wake Forest they were
slowly graduated in three and a half years with the degree in communications
which allowed him to transfer to another school and play without a delay but
Russel was a two-sport athlete like his father and he was playing baseball all
throughout this time just one day after Russell was drafted in the fourth round
of the 2010 MLB Draft by the Colorado Rockies will his father he sadly passed
away now the quote Russell remembers most from his father is there's a king
in every Crouch that was written on a slip of paper that his dad had passed
him in a car one day on the way to Russell's grandparents house he also
mentions that his father instilled into him to play every game with the same
level of importance because oh you never know who's watching whether it's a scout
or a coach or a kid in the stand who wants to be just like you now Russell's
brother he recalled that he would live out that advice during every game in
fact he said he watched Russell go harder than anyone he'd ever see before
in warm-ups for a game I never seen somebody worked so hard in warmups
I played baseball and I took a lot of pride in my fielding ability I was an
outfielder I couldn't believe how hard he was going Russell transferred to
Wisconsin for his last year of college football before each game at Wisconsin
Russell this is a habit of writing three things
on tape that he would put on his wrist now the first would be a football
message for his upcoming game for example play each play the second is one
of his favorite scripture passages and the third is simply the word dad now we
also had things in perspective when he was asked about the pressure he felt
before stepping onto the field for his first game he stated this isn't pressure
this is great this is fun this is a blessing in my life what my mom had to
go through in terms of taking care of my dad and always being there for him
having to help him out while taking care of my sister that's tough that's
pressure in a 2014 interview Russell Wilson will
he said this it's imperative the quarterback has to be the leader of the
team he has to make smart decisions and when the game is on the line with two
minutes left the quarterback has to make a lot of big-time plays that's what I
want to bring to the table Seattle Seahawks elect Russell Wilson
quarterback Wisconsin in the 2012 draft Russell Wilson he was selected 75th
overall in the third round but he would go on to beat out Matt Flynn for the
starting job at training camp and it would become a Super Bowl champ like the
next year and he's the youngest quarterback to ever do so so there's
another reason why he's just such a guy Craig I'm kidding I'm kidding
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