The One College Football Run That Changed My Life

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He calls it, quote, one of the most significant events in my life, unquote. But what people don't know is the story behind that run. Here he is to share that story. You know, I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. And most of my life I lived in the rougher parts.

You know, I was the youngest of six and Um Begin to shape my goals at that point because I didn't like how tough it was on me. I didn't like how tough it was on my mother. I started to make the goal that I wanted to take care of it one day. And so I started to see on TV and And through other things that you could go to college for free. Uh about playing football.

And I knew nobody in my family would be able to afford to send me to college. Nobody had ever been. You know, nobody knew how to get there. And I wanted to be the first. and I wanted to play football.

Um And so I started to put everything I could into getting there. I never forget when. I was officially accepted. as a scholarship athlete. at the University of Louisville.

Yeah. And I mean, it's important that I let y'all know what it took to get there. Because I wasn't really prepared. It was hard to pass the ACT. I would go and I would try to take ACT prep courses and just anything I could, but I failed that test like three straight times.

It was the fourth time that I passed. By that time I had had over like 50 like letters from colleges. But they were kind of just dropping off when I was not passing the test, but Louisville stuck in there, and so I stuck with them. And um I sent on my scholarship. I cried.

I had done it. I graduated high school, which was a big deal in my family. And was the first to go through college. In a I was on my way.

So I'm at Louisville, and I mean, those who know me know this is. Louisville was then and now this is one of the greatest blessings of my life. And so, right away, all the work. Just began. I began to write my goals down and I knew what I wanted to do.

Like, my goal was to be the starting running back for the University of Louisville and get myself to the NFL. You know, and I knew I had to be great. Right off the bat, the first thing that happens is uh The coach has switched my position. Yeah. And uh And they picked me to go to the linebacker row.

I go to linebacker roasting now, and I'm like, coach, I don't want to play linebacker, man. I played a little bit in high school, but I'm a linebacker. That's why I came to college fourth. He's like.

Well, we're picking the most athletic running backs to go. This is the sweetened over for me. You're athletic. You can play. We need you.

We've got a surplus of running backs. We want to see you play linebacker, help us out. That's what we're short. We don't have a lot of linebackers and we don't have a lot of time. I'm just like, cold hot.

I hear you, but I just want to play running back. He was like, Well, you know, you got an opportunity to start. I'm like, okay, so where do you say the linebacker room was? Because starting was the key for me. And so I got all conference as a freshman.

For a linebacker, playing linebacker, I have like 55 tackles in two sacks. And I worked hard, never complained.

So I told him, I was like, I did everything you wanted me to do. All I want is one shot. At player running back. One shot. I mean, what do you have to lose?

And at first, he's like, he really wasn't going for it at all. And so I'm like, I knew I had to come up with something different.

So I went and talked to. Our offensive line coach. And they're like one of my favorite coaches, offensive line coach. I could talk to him about anything, and I'm just like, look, I'm like, coach won't give me a shot. I just think he's kind of caught up in the guys we have.

And I get it. He ain't never seen me play, is what it is.

So if he saw me run the ball, I might have a chance. Coach asked me, did I have any film of me running? And I have my high school recruitment tape, so I gave it to our offensive line coach. He took it to the head coach. You know, and uh, Hair Coach is like, Oh, I like the way he kind of really pushes it up in there.

He's your one carry. You don't do something with it. You going back to defense? I said, okay. That's that's fair.

I appreciate that one carry. I took him serious. I don't know if he was joking or not. But I took that word carry. And I did something with it.

My experience as a Christian growing up was just more about habit. Then how having a deep relationship with Jesus. And again, this is about as much as any of us knew. You know, my mother. Myself, you know, this is just how I knew.

I believe in God and I knew that you could ask Him for things. You know, I knew to pray over my food, I knew to, you know, go to church on Sundays. I like, I knew those types of things, and I would do them, but I didn't have this deep-rooted Um faith.

So it really wasn't hard to be fooled into thinking that you are really a super solid Christian if you just did some of the. the habits right and that's what I was doing and so There were people that would say Hey, is there somebody on the global football team? that wouldn't mind coming and sharing their faith with. With some kids, I would always be the one chosen to do those kinds of things.

So I will go, you know, I will go and do these things. Um yeah, T C is a Great Christian, you know, get Tony to do it.

So I'm like, you know, no problem. I love to teach the kids, you know.

So I would go and I would look at scriptures and prepare myself and go tell them everything that they're supposed to do. You know, watch your language, watch what you watch on TV. Like, be careful with that. You know, don't say this, don't do that. And teaching them all the things that they're supposed to be doing because they're kids and they need to be careful.

And I'm on a dog. I kinda know what I'm doing. The music ain't influencing me.

So see, I would leave those places and pop in whatever I wanted to listen to. Because I didn't think it mattered that I listened to those things. I would lust with the best of them, you know, running around at the parties. While I'm out. You know Telling everybody what they need to do, and I'm living it out the best I can for what I knew.

There was somebody following me around, like looking at how I live my life. And I'll never forget when he made himself known to me. because I'm on my way to lunch. and he comes up to me and he says, Hey, I want to study scripture with you. And I'm like The first thing that popped through your head when you think you're doing you know Christianity the way it's supposed to be done is you get prideful.

I'm just like Man, you know, I know how y'all kind of walk around campus looking for people to study scripture with, but I'm like, Brother, I lead Bible studies on campus and I read, I'm kind of cool. You probably want to use that for somebody who needs that, you know. But I appreciate the offer. And so finally he saw he wasn't gonna get nowhere with me. And he's like, look.

Yeah. Just what if we just do one Bible study one-on-one? And um I'll leave you alone. And all I really heard was, I'll leave you alone. That excited me.

I'm like, all right, well, I mean, in my mind, I'm saying to myself, one Bible study to get rid of this guy? Perfect. Let's do it. In fact, Brother Wayne ain't got to wait. We can go tonight.

All right. Get your Bible. We can go tonight. Let's go.

So that night He came to my room. And when he walked in, he had his Bible and a videotape. He just pops the tape in. I sit down on my bed and watching. And when it comes on, it phase in, it just shows Jesus on the cross getting whipped.

Like right off the bat, it's just a crucifixion. It's a reenactment. And I'm watching this and I'm like, okay. And this is whip after whip. And you said, you know.

The agony. And then these scriptures start to scroll up, and these words. And it's just saying things like, He died for your sins. He died for the sins of the world. And so many of us still freely commit these sins.

And then you see in scriptures about what it truly means to follow him. Don't conform to the world and just all of these different things are just coming up. And I'm sitting up here reading scriptures, reading about how much he loves you. And it's just, and he's still getting beat in the background. And you've been listening to T.C.

Stalling share his story. And he starts off talking about where he grew up and how he grew up in a tough neighborhood where nobody in his family had ever gone to college. He wanted to be the first one. He saw football as his way to do it. He saw football as a way to get that scholarship and, in the end, get to the NFL and take care of his mom.

Some adversity along the way, the ACTs. And he failed not once, not twice, but three times. But on the fourth time, Well, he got what he needed, the score he needed, and he found himself at Louisville on a full ride. And then we started to hear about his faith journey. And if you listening who have one, know exactly what he's talking about.

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Let's pick up. where we last left off.

Now he lets us play. for quite some time and I'm sitting up here. this this big 218 pound running back was just humbled. I should start crying. I mean, I'm like, I just wanted it to end, you know.

And I honestly didn't feel like he was necessarily showing me anything I didn't know. But I mean, it's just here I am, I'm face to face with it.

So, when the video ended, he just immediately opened up his Bible and he just started showing me even more scriptures about what it truly means to follow Jesus. And I'm looking at all of them and I'm like, I'm not doing any of these things. You know, it's like these scriptures, I had seen them before, I was familiar with them, but they just was. I had never went this deep with him to like really draw out the true meaning. You know, scriptures about the Holy Spirit, how the Holy Spirit is supposed to change your life and lead your life.

All of this is just, I'm like, man, I felt bad. I felt, I felt, it was bad in a good kind of way. It just wasn't feeling good at that time. It's just, I felt good to know, but I felt embarrassed. I'm just, I'm overwhelmed.

And he's like, You know Tony, the reason that I Wanted to talk to you is because you know, we all see you around here, either starting running back. for Louisville and people will be asking you to come speak and You know, you're speaking on behalf of Jesus Christ, but... If people knew what we're talking about right now, like if they knew what these scriptures said. If they knew what it truly meant to be a Christ follower and they compared that to the life you living, Today see you as a hypocrite. That's it.

Very next morning, I started trying to do everything right. It was like cold turkey, be the best Christian you could ever be. I felt like I was doing better. Before this kid came here and started showing me all the scriptures, and now it's harder to be a Christian now. This is this, I mean, this, I hate this, you know, and I was just really upset because.

It wasn't easy anymore. And so I'm like, I look at my Bible, I'm just like, you know what, let me just. I just felt compelled to give it another quick read. I'm like, let me just. And I grab the Bible and I open it up.

And I do not think this was an accident, but I'll open it up to 1 Corinthians. Chapter nine Verse 24 through 27. I just started reading right there. And this is where it says, do you know that in a race All the runners run, but only one gets the prize.

So run to win. Each athlete goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. And I sat there, and that it just hit me like a ton of bricks. I just watched.

Or read rather. I just I just read Paul Compare the effort of an athlete to the effort of a Christian. That's all they did right there. And he said that the athletes do it for stuff that won't last, but the Christian is supposed to do it. For a crown that will last forever.

And I'm like, well, do what? This is what I'm saying to myself as I'm reading the scripture. He said go into strict training. And that's when I was just blown away by The next thought that came in my head, and I know it came from the Lord because I still live by it today. But if the Lord could speak audibly like right to me, this is what I felt like he was saying.

You sat up here TCN, you had a fit last night because you was failing as a Christian. You know, you get mad about what the Holy Spirit ain't doing and what ain't working and what. How's your effort? This Louisville team, you will do everything they tell you to do. When it's time to strength train, you're strength training.

When it's time to endurance train, you're endurance train. But what about when it's time to strength train for me? What about when it's time to endurance train for me? What about the strict training that I try to put you through? For Louisville, you never quit.

For me, you quit at the drop of a hat. The team meetings, you're always there. You skip church today because you ain't feel like coming to be with me.

So, yeah, you're a great player for the University of Louisville. You do everything your coach tells you to do. But what kind of player are you on my team? I got all of that from that scripture. And it was clear to me.

God has done his part. His part is to save me. Give me the Holy Spirit. Give me a son, Jesus Christ. My part.

It's to follow him, obey him, let him train me into the type of person I need to be.

So I started to think of it this way. God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, those are my head coaches. And the game is life. And I'm always playing. 365 days a year, 24-7.

and their opponent is Satan. And the Bible is my playbook. And the question I always ask myself is: what kind of player would Jesus say I am? each and every day. That was life-changing for me.

So I go to the running backs meeting, and you know, it's like it always is. You know, we. We sit down, and you know, the jokes start coming out, and a lot of times inappropriate, and the bad language, and you know, the small talk, and just all this stuff that. I'm now working hard to not Be attracted to, you know, and I'm working on myself. And so for me, it's, You kind of just gotta.

Wait till it's over. You know, I'm ducking my head. I'm I'm obviously uncomfortable. And you know, the players were noticing and the coach was noticing.

So when the meeting ended We were all leaving and My running back coach stopped me and wanted to talk to me. And he was just like, you know, what's the problem? It's like you really had a problem today. What's going on? I told him after just being pressed to give an answer, I'm just like, look.

God runs my life now.

So whenever we are talking about football and the things that That can help me grow. As a player, I'm all is, but we started talking about all this other stuff. I ain't gonna be listening. I don't want nothing to do with it. And I just that didn't really sit well with him.

And I really think he struggled with the old me versus the new me, but He hit me with some words that would stay with me the whole rest of the day. God might control your life. But I control the running back rotation. You just remember that. I had a choice to make.

This is how I started to think.

So I'm just like, now comes the compromise option in my mind as I sit in my dorm room. I'm like, all I got to do is laugh at a few little stupid jokes and just like not. Sure. make this an issue and then everything's good. What's so bad about that?

But remember, you know, I'm studying scripture now. And I had a regular reading habit and praying habit that really meant something to me now.

So I'm reading scripture, and I see the book of Matthew where he's like, If you deny me before men, I'll deny you before the Father, but if you honor me before men, I'll honor you before the Father. Thank you. That just made the decision for me. There's no way that I'm going to put anything ahead of. Irene.

Jesus Christ. When I went back to the meeting, It was pretty much the same meeting that it always is. And I was the same way that I was before. And you could tell it was just like these battle lines were drawn because. From that point on, Uh Coach has really kind of gravitated away from me.

I mean, he never was really all in on it anyway, but I worked hard. And you're listening to T.C. Stallings telling the story about the battle between his faith walk. and his earthly walk. Again, for any of you who have a faith walk, Any kind, you know exactly what he's talking about, that struggle.

and that temptation. And he got that word from his Lord. And that was you never quit for Louisville. But you quit at the drop of a hat. when it comes to me.

God did his part, he realized as he was reading scripture. My part is to follow him. and to have him train me up, the Bible is my playbook now. And now here he is stuck in a conflict. The coach essentially says to him, God might control your life.

But I control the running back rotation. Will he compromise? Will he laugh at inappropriate things, things that just don't work with his spirit anymore, or not? And what will the consequences be? We'll find out what happens next.

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As I watched him support You know, those that kind of got along with him better. I knew that I was kind of going to be on my own. Like, this is going to be. The challenge of a lifetime. And here we are gearing up for the first game of the season.

Um All I could do is control what I can control.

So I knew he probably would prefer somebody else get the spot. But I held my own in practice. I stayed. uh in a position where I wasn't giving up my spot. And so for the season opener against UK, I was listed as a starter.

If I don't play well, My dream is done. Boom, we come running out. And here come the Cardinals. Um And I remember I knew I was going to start the game and I just wanted to start. Cool, you're gonna And um I felt confident, but Things just didn't start out the way I planned it off.

On a third and one, and they give it to Stallings. I'm not sure. I think he's going to be a little bit shy. Yeah, it's going to be close. He snuck through there, but I think his knees were already on the ground when he...

I was so nervous about the wrong thing. I wasn't nervous about playing football. I was nervous about How much I would play. But they switched winning backs like right off the bat. And I'm like, here we go.

Uh Here's a draw play. They give it off with 32. That's Chris Lester. And he gives it to Lester again. And Lester fights and looks like he has the first down.

Here's Lester again. He turns the corner, and Lester has another Cardinal first down.

So now I started to see what we got going here. Whoever did better in this game was going to be the starter.

So then finally I get in. You know, I took the ball and I just made this quick cut. And I was going, I had a nice run. Here's to give, big hole up the middle, 27 Tony Stallings. Stallings still on his feet and fights his way to the 43.

Good effort by Stallings that time. Nick Selly was up guy. And I'm starting to, and I'm like, yeah, I needed that. Like, it was a really, really good run. Then I get called off the field before I could really get warmed up.

I was like it's slipping away. It's flipping away. But then the rains came. And again, officials have detected lightning in the area and determined that conditions may be unsafe for the game to continue.

So they've asked everyone to, in an orderly fashion, to return to their cars here at Papadon's Cardinal Stadium as the rain really blows in here. In a 19-14, what we call a suspended game at this point. Do to lightning.

Now, I'm gonna tell you, I think to this day. That God knew I needed that storm. Because That was an hour and 14 minutes. Rain delay. And I didn't even go.

Normally, everybody goes and meets as a group. The running backs go to the running backs, the wide receivers go to the wide receivers. I didn't even go. I went straight to the bathroom. And I was in there by by myself.

And I'll never forget this, man. I started to look into the mirror. Yeah. Water is dripping down and sweat. And I just, I'm just looking at myself, and I'm just like, what are you doing?

And I just started to pray. I have to give up. My starting position. To show that I have Full faith in you. that you first place in my life, that's fine.

I get that. Like, if I'm a loser, let me lose it, but let me go out there and play the way I know I can play. I'm nervous, I'm scared, I'm looking over my shoulder. I just want to stop that. Just let me do what I know I can do.

And if you want to take this away from me, you take it. Just give me peace. Just let me play the way I know I can play. And I'm just sitting here just like begging and pleading in this mirror. And honestly.

This is just like the movies, man, where I just started to feel a sense of peace. Like, I really just started to feel it. And I felt like if I really go out there and just have this peace, that's faith.

Next thing I know They was yelling for everybody, it's time to go back out. Hour and 14 minutes and I need it every minute.

So yeah, I didn't think it meant I was gonna go out there and crush it. But that's kind of what's starting to happen. Here's the give to Stallings. Stallings inside the 20. Stallings to the 10 to the nine-yard line.

First carry, I'm gone. Strab the middle, gaunt, shh, put some moves on, gaunt, long run. And now when I get up normally after I play like that, I get pulled out the game and the other running back come in. Coach called the same play again. I hit it again.

Boom. Straight up through there. Bang. Almost scored. Uh And call my play again.

I mean, this is a dream. Every single play was to me. This series. I got that ball. I ran straight ahead.

Ran into the defensive man, carried that boy in the end zone. Square the touch now. Penalty. Loybill trying to take the lead for the first time. Ball in.

Touch the. And I just remember going straight down to my knees. And I started thanking God. And I knew it was gonna keep rotating. Because I know that you know coach will want his guy to do well.

And he got in, he did okay. But when I got in, it was the same thing. I get the ball, it's the same stuff. I'm just relentless. And they hand it off up the middle.

Big hole for Stallings. Stallings. still on his feet to the 20 don't 28 yard line I was running like I was possessed. Give to Stallings. Stallings trying to get outside.

Stallings for the 32. First down. Hardgold. Stallings at the curve. I think everybody knows I can run the ball now.

I'm over 100 yards. You know, I got a touchdown. It don't even matter what the other guy does right now. Because the game's tied now. And we going back and forth.

We're going into overtime.

So now It's crazy because I go and get my helmet. And the other running back went to get his too. And so, like. Because we don't know who's going in. We've been rotating all night, pretty much 50-50.

When my running back coach says Stall is you in? I can't describe how I was feeling when I heard it because I knew I couldn't weigh any weight. I know they was going to run the ball. And now I'm going in. This is the group that's going to have an opportunity to beat.

Kentucky. And I can see it as plain as day, like right now. I'll never forget this day. Came to the huddle. And he said, Let's go, Tony.

Ace right. 24 counter. Ready, brain. And after an hour and 14-minute rain delay, we have had a tremendous bluegrass battle. Motion by Branch.

Give to Stalling. Stalling takes a middle. Stalling's been the pen. Target woman. Garrett goes win.

Tuck out. No. We picked the right chief player in the game. Little did we know. Pandemonium in the end zone.

Tony Stalling. But now you know the story behind the run. It's a story I've been wanting to tell for a long time, but... I needed to tell it the way the Lord wanted me to tell it.

So where the focus won't be on football. It won't be on me. It won't be on no coaches. I'm not sure if I can do it. Won't be on UK.

It'll be about Jesus Christ. The peace that he provides. and a plan to hear half of your life. If you're just willing to trust me. And a terrific job in the editing, production, and storytelling by our own Greg Hengler.

And a special thanks to Vision Video for this story. To learn more about TC, Check out his website. at tcstallings.life. TC Stallings dot life. And what a story you heard about the run of his life.

and what was behind it, and the run he's still running. Because in the end, that's what he learned. He put his priorities in the right place in the end. And that's all it is. Again, anyone going through any faith walk knows that priority.

And when they get out of line, Uh well things go wrong for you. And for him, it was just football in the flesh versus what God wants from him. and when he got that aligned properly, it unleashed his performance on the field. Because he put God first. It was just that simple.

He put God first and football second. And for any of you struggling with that, priority if you're believers, again, whatever your belief.

Well you know, take solace and take inspiration from the story in the end. because what he wasn't looking for was his coaches' approval or even those fans' approval. In the end. but just gods, and the rest took care of itself. We'd love to tell these faith stories on the show because so many of you listening.

care about and take seriously. Your walk with God. The story of T.C. Stallings, his famous run, the story behind that run here. and our American stories.

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