Mark McGriff - State Farm Agent

09/22/2026

Second District Game is at home!
Thursday night in THE PIT!

09/21/2026

09/11/2026

We remember….never forget.

09/11/2026

That smile belonged to a 32-year-old father of 2 with a third child on the way.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, Todd Beamer boarded United Flight 93 at Newark for a business trip to San Francisco. The plane sat in traffic on the ground and took off late.

That delay changed everything.

About 45 minutes into the flight, 4 hijackers stormed the cockpit and turned the plane toward Washington. But by then, both towers in New York had already been hit. And Flight 93 had phones built into the seatbacks.

The passengers called home. The people who answered told them what was happening. They understood what their plane was for.

Todd tried to call his wife. It would not connect. He was routed instead to a phone company supervisor named Lisa Jefferson, a stranger at a call center outside Chicago.

He told her a passenger had been killed and the pilots had been forced from the cockpit. He told her about his boys, David and Andrew, and the baby due in January.

Then he asked her. If he did not make it, would she call his family and tell them how much he loved them.

She promised she would.

Jefferson said later he was so calm that if she had not known it was a real hijacking, she would have thought it was a prank call.

In the cabin, the passengers took a vote. A flight attendant named Sandra Bradshaw boiled a pot of water to throw at the hijackers.

At 9:57, they went.

Jefferson heard Todd turn away from the phone to speak to someone else.

"Let's roll."

The hijacker at the controls rolled the plane and pitched it up and down, trying to throw the charging passengers off their feet. The cockpit recorder caught the door being battered.

At 10:03, Flight 93 hit a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, at 580 miles an hour. It was 20 minutes flying time from Washington, where investigators believe the target was the Capitol or the White House.

All 33 passengers and 7 crew members were killed. It was the only hijacked plane that day that never reached its target.

Lisa Jefferson kept her promise. She called Todd's family.

09/06/2026

Saturday’s are for college football. My son, Taylor, and Berry College Football took home a big win 50-20 this week. Go Vikings!!! Fall is the most wonderful time of year in the McGriff house!

09/05/2026

Got a little playing time in a big 49-7 victory against city rival Eastside! Bobcat Nation Buchholz High School Football Team - Gainesville, FL

09/05/2026

Done ✅ Buchholz High School Football Team - Gainesville, FL

09/04/2026

That’s Riley McGriff holding and he’s also playing QB2!!

Horns Down!

Kickoff is at 7:30pm
Reminder we are in the visitors section this week. So enter on the street side of the stadium by the pool.
Clear bag policy is in effect as always.

09/01/2026

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