Former punter Steve Weatherford revealed {that a} “deep wave of despair” came to visit him after the Giants defeated the Patriots in Tremendous Bowl XLVI in 2012.
Weatherford, 41, posted in regards to the bout with despair — calling it “one of the vital miserable nights of my life” — and overcoming it via religion in a put up on Fb earlier this week.
“The sport was in Indianapolis simply 47 miles from my hometown…My household, my mother and father, and my pals had been all coming and whoever couldn’t could be watching on TV and I really had the best recreation of my life,” Weatherford wrote.
“I couldn’t have carried out higher. And we gained 21-17. However after all of the celebrations and events had been over, one thing came to visit me. I used to be sitting in my resort room and a deep wave of despair came to visit me.”
Weatherford performed highschool soccer in Terre Haute, Ind.
His NFL profession spanned from 2006-15, and he was the Giants’ punter for 4 seasons from 2011-14.
“All of the early mornings, all of the years of onerous work, all of the sacrifice… and I didn’t really feel totally different,” Weatherford continued in his Fb put up.
“I attempted to fill the void inside me with profitable and success however all it did was depart me feeling empty. That’s once I determined that I couldn’t keep within the NFL for much longer and wanted to discover a deeper sense of goal.
“So let me be the primary to warn you. No quantity of success or achievement can fill the God sized gap in you. It wasn’t till I acquired my life so as with God on the prime that I used to be capable of finding a a lot deeper sense of goal that energizes me day-after-day. So now I’m on a mission to assist different males do the identical.”
Weatherford mentioned that serving to others discover their religion has introduced him extra success than the glory of competing within the NFL.
“I may’ve stayed within the NFL, I may’ve continued rising my complement enterprise, or been on TV however there’s nothing that lights me up greater than serving to males reside a life on goal,” he wrote.
“That’s why I’m going to spend so much of 2024 taking tribes of males via a 90 Day Transformational Intensive based mostly on my expertise.”
Weatherford invited readers of his put up to ship him a message in the event that they “really feel such as you’re at a Tremendous Bowl second the place you’ve achieved loads however nonetheless really feel empty.”
Weatherford additionally punted for the Jets in 2009, 2010 and a part of 2015.
