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The name of this show?  RESILIENCE

Reggie Williams

Flint Sports Legend and Hall of Fame Inductee, Dartmouth University's Greatest Football Player, NFL Star, Creator of Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex

​Steve Johnson
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Long time Flint Athlete and Official
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Cancer Survivor, Author

December 15, 2022
 Reggie Williams
  • Walter Payton Humanitarian Of The Year
  • NFL Man of The Year 
  • Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year 
  • College Football Hall of Famer
  • 2 Time Super Bowl participant
  • Creator of the ESPN Wide World of Sports at Disneyworld

*Sports & Business + Health and Well Being
*Show aired on December 15th, 2021

Reggie Williams is back again to join Fish. One of the greatest all time athletes in Flint history from Whittier Junior High and Flint Southwestern, his story is hardly just about sports. That’s saying an awful lot because his storied career involves being considered one of the best football players in Flint history, Dartmouth College history, and the NFL Cincinnati Bengals history. But even while he was playing the game professionally Reggie was functioning as a Cincinnati City Councilman. 

That leadership led him to pave the way for an elimination of pension investments in to Apartheid based South Africa. According to Bishop Desmond Tutu, that was the “Straw that broke the camel’s back” in terms of ending Apartheid as it involved significant economic impairment to the existing system. 

Along the way he also achieved:

  • NFL Man of the Year
  • Walter Payton Humanitarian Of The Year
  • Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year 
  • College Football Hall of Famer
  • A Two Time Super Bowl Participant 
  • Considered the greatest player in the history of Dartmouth College
  • Considered the best defensive player in Cincinnati Bengals history. 
  • Created the ESPN Wide World of Sports complex at Disney World  

Despite all of those achievements, perhaps nothing compares to overcoming the serious health issues he has had to deal with. Chiefly among them are a heart attack, stroke. But nothing could prepare him for the unreal challenges he would face with his knee. 

This is the story of the ultimate challenge tackled by the ultimate warrior - a Flintstone named Reggie Williams.  
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Fish with Reggie at the Genesee County Historical Society's Annual Heritage Dinner, where Reggie was presented with the GCHS's History Maker award
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Fish and Steve with his book, "Miracle Off the Field"
Steve Johnson
Long time Flint Athlete and Official

Pairing Steve Johnson with Reggie Williams is like a one two punch of hard core resilience. A Carman graduate and long time athlete, and official, he was never one to stand still for long. But when he was waylaid with a cancer diagnoses it was like a head slap. 

Having helped his close friend Judge Duncan Beagle through a difficult health crisis, he knew that it would take humor, optimism, and most of all a deep and faith to get through what he was about to face. How it would all play out was something he would have never imagined. 

It’s all here on a very special episode of “Fish and The Flint Chronicles!”
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Stories of resilience and optimism that are best summed up by Reggie Williams favorite words: 
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INVICTUS
By William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,
      Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
      For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
      I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
      My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
      Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
      Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
      How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
      I am the captain of my soul.
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