 How staggered was it, Tim, I guess emotionally when they told you what you were dealing with? It's the hardest thing I've ever had to hear. And so every thought runs through your mind. But as a man you have a choice. What are you going to do? Are you going to stand up and fight for your life? Or are you going to just fade away? ALS is a disease that affects the nervous system. And so as I'm sitting here, my brain can send a message to the muscles in my body to tell me to do certain things. For example, I can tell it to raise my right hand, which is what I'm doing right now. ALS stops that message getting to the muscles. What is happening for Tim as those messages little by little don't get through his muscles little by little are wasting away. It showed itself in my muscles. You see my legs twitching and my muscles twitching and it showed itself in weakness and it showed itself in loss of some athletic ability. Those are the early signs. Tim's body is in such a state right now that he needs help to do just about everything. He can move his legs still a little bit and he can move his eyes, but anything physical we basically have to help him with. Tim needs some help with breathing. Most of us don't even give breathing a thought, perhaps not even once during the day. Tim has lost his ability to speak and for a while Tim was able to call me by speaking to his phone. He would say call dad and his phone would automatically call me. I remember we were in this room and Tim's brother Andrew was here with his son Judah and Judah had just learned to say daddy for the first time and that was the very same day Tim had changed my name. He said to me dad I changed your name in my phone. You're now yo-yo because the phone doesn't recognize when I say the word dad. So now I have to say call yo-yo and just hearing little Judah say dad for the first time to his dad and hearing from my son that he couldn't say dad anymore. I still can feel that. Tim's physical strength has declined, but mentally his brain is the strongest muscle anyone would ever come against. ALS does not rob people of their mental capabilities. Fortunately he's able to continue doing a lot of things. He's written a couple of books, one of which he did completely with his eyes on that computer screen. He became this accomplished author. The first book Blitzer Life ended up being a award-winning book and the other book that he did was a devotional for athletes called On Turf As It Is In Heaven. For Tim to write he looks at a keyboard on a computer screen and he spells out these words by looking at a letter and so what would take someone just a matter of seconds? Tim has to work ultimately hours to even get out a short amount of writing. It's really quite an achievement. One of the things that he said in his book and that I really take to heart he says we all come with an expiration date so stop wasting your time. Tim has received many awards since he's been diagnosed with ALS. He's received several from the ALS Association for his fundraising efforts and the team spirit that he brings. Tim won the ALS Hero Award. That was for the inspiration that he is to people who have ALS and people who are caregiving for ALS. At this time the commercial school district is honored to rename David B. McDowell Field to David B. McDowell Field at Sean Stadium. Our high school has honored Tim by naming the stadium after him. The impact I think that Tim has left on the Clarenceville community is hard to put into words. I can't say thank you enough there's too many people I have to thank so I just thank you all for the bottom of my heart. I love you. Tim wanted to make it clear it wasn't the Tim Shaw Stadium. He realized that he and his brothers and our family were all part of that success. It was just super special to be a part of that and be there to see the love and support that our school community still has for Tim. When I think back to the days that Tim was at Penn State even now the people that contact him and tell him they've watched his career they've watched what's been happening to him in his life and how much it's impacted them is amazing. We have the Tim Shaw Thrive Award here. See the award is given to a player every single year that has had to overcome challenges and adversity maybe not on the level of Tim but still we wanted to not only recognize those attributes but but really Tim and what his life has stood for. They remember him as the person more than the athlete and I think that speaks a lot for who he is. You know when you talk about the heroes and the legends of Penn State football and Penn State University and this Happy Valley community there's no better representative than Tim Shaw. 89 on the roster so we have a roster spot but we looked at John and I looked at what would be the best fifth and our last spot of the 89 so we went out and we're going to sign a linebacker special teams player to fit in on the active roster. The Titans making Tim a Titan for life was an amazing gesture. We were at ironically 89 players on the roster and you know the thought popped into my head hey why don't we make this guy a Titan for life. Well all you guys in this room have done this before we're going to put pen and paper and make it official. Tim will be on our active roster he will show up on the wire tomorrow. Of course he asked how much his signing bonus was which I thought was funny. Just extremely proud to know him and then what he's done for our football team since has been outstanding. In this building our players coaches staff I mean just whenever we get a chance to see him here it's a blessing. Tim is a part of us I appreciate his willingness and ability to come in here and be a part of what we're doing to watch practice to be involved in meetings and to help out wherever he can. You see how he lives day to day you see the passion he brings into the facility just having him there and shows how much he cares about us this team this organization he's a guy that means the world to us. His love of his teammates is something that I'll always appreciate and I hope that we can exemplify that that same type of care and love for for each other. He never quits he fights every day and he puts the team first if you want to ask what a Titan looks like you look at Tim's shop. There's a mantra around the training facility here in Nashville it's called Tennessee Tough. By its very nature Tennessee Tough isn't saying that everything is smooth it's saying you're tough enough to handle any adversity. That's who we are that's our brand to the core and going through ALS and all the things that life has certainly handed him his mindset is tougher than his body. I'm sure his body's probably told him several times you're done but Tim's mindset no I'm not he keeps fighting and we want that same thing in our players. It's Tim Shaw Tennessee Tough is Tim Shaw a guy who will stare at adversity and show everyone that he'll do everything he can to power through it to battle through it that's what it means to be Tennessee Tough. When people look at Tim they're amazed because they see that he's not slowing down he's still living his life he's still going out and doing things he's still spending time with his nieces and nephews and his brothers and he's still traveling and he's still living life to the fullest. Since the diagnosis of ALS has it changed him not one leg. One of the things he said is he will not let three letters define him. He did not want to be put in a bubble he didn't want to be specially protected he just wanted to do some fun stuff he said dad put me in the convertible and drive me around do whatever. I've never heard him say anything other than one I'm gonna beat it and two I'm gonna live life to the fullest. Tim embodies somebody that is handling the pressures and the burdens of life he's doing everything in his power to be an advocate for those who need hope for those who need something to believe in. Tim continues to inspire others to be their best and to lead their best life. To my friends and family I couldn't do this without you I need all of you your words actions and sometimes and actions make all the difference to the quality of my every day I'm so lucky and so thankful to have you