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Tony “Big Tone” Picard Is Inspiring Kids And Athletes Everywhere-Bully’s Get Ready!

We are so proud tonight of our big man “Big Tone” aka Tony Picard of White Swan, Washington. The 400 pound running back was featured in our story on November 1st, 2013 and within a few days

Tony “Big Tone” Picard Is Inspiring Kids And Athletes Everywhere-Bully’s Get Ready!

We are so proud tonight of our big man “Big Tone” aka Tony Picard of White Swan, Washington.  The 400 pound running back was featured in our story on November 1st, 2013 and within a few days that story had hundreds of thousands of reads and over 250,000 people shared the story.   It seemed the thought of a 400 pound kid running back was too impossible and everyone wanted to know more.

Tony was featured by us again a few days later as we released his first ever film.  It was choppy and raw but it showed enough to get people talking.  That story is here.

 

Tony Picard is 6'4" and 400 lbs.  At tiny White Swan HS he is the biggest running back in the United States; but this young

Tony Picard is 6’4″ and 400 lbs. At tiny White Swan HS he is the biggest running back in the United States!

Then a few days after that film hit You Tube it went viral having hundreds of thousands of hits.  We followed up with Tony and his Coach Andy Bush and looked after him all the way; as much as we could.  Big Tone hit the Today Show, the Good Morning American Show, Sports Center, and CNN.  He had so many TV appearances he lost track.  You can read up on some of those here.

Then it was time to get to some football and we worked with Cole Morgan At NWEFC,   Scott Laigo at ASD Sports, and Coach Danny Razore at the UW Huskies to make sure Tony took in the WSU VS Utah Game, and the Apple Cup.  He loved it all.  A lot of folks have called about getting some of his artwork which frankly is amazing and he is close to having some prints for sale at a very low cost; you can see more at BigToneArt.com .

Our Video hit 3,500,000 viewers which is about as Viral as you can get.  Video #2 which shows much better skills is not anywhere near that as it was posted on the back end of the wave of activity.

Tony’s life was turned upside down as was the life of the Picard household and to some extent so was his community.  Most people saw the big gentle giant as an inspiration and we received phone calls and emails far and wide from parents, kids, and wonderful people everywhere who wanted to send their love and support.  We received thousands of comments on his video.  for every 3 comments we got 2 were positive and 1 was negative.  but oh how those negative Cyber Bullies tried to pry away at the fabric of our young hero.  The hate and venom they seethed out and spit was remarkable.  Pointing out the obvious that he is “Fat” and or “Slow” and adding matters of race and culture and every other form of hate to their every flowing river of grief.

In the middle of the attention and the viral craze Big Tone read a lot of hate and venom and fired back this Nuke!

In the middle of the attention and the viral craze Big Tone read a lot of hate and venom and fired back this Nuke!

Most men would have fallen under that crush.  But that would be most men.  This is a kid and not even a man but he is more of a man then most you can ever hope to meet.  He comes from humble means and is of a proud heritage of Native American and other influences in his blood.  He comes from a broken home but a home filled with love and a mother and siblings he is watching over.  His Birthday went down in the middle of all this and his team made it to the playoffs but fell to a good squad like most all but a few teams do.

His mother adopted a new baby girl and Tony has a new little sister who is just days old.  She is as sweet as can be already and she has the biggest of big brothers a girl could ever want.

Tony’s prospects for the future are better then they were in most ways since the film and story broke and we know he will be fine.  He has us to back him up and hopefully that means he has all of you readers too.  We are as you may know a growing community and I feel are all one.  We must work to move up together.  We can you know and with kids like Tony with us we will.

The essence of Big Tone shined through in a statement he made to the bullies out there and it was one that John Cena brought up again right here in the follow up story on SportsNation.  You have to see this shout out and read what he said.  It really is as simple as this.  He is doing what he is asked to do and what he loves to do.  And people if you have an issue with that truly we are sorry for you.  But guess what?

Big Tone could care less and it isn’t possible for you to stop him anyway!  Here is to you Tony and to all you kids out there that have been bullied we got your back!  Tony has your back too and that is something you can take to the bank!  Keep moving up people.  That’s all we gotta do to win the war on these clowns!

I am the Founder of the Northwest Prep Report. For 17 years I have led the way to the best of my ability to promote the best talent from the Pacific NW free of charge. It is my pleasure to continue to serve High School athletes from all over the Pacific NW and beyond. Formerly with Rivals.com my sites have now crossed over 8,000 stories, 7 MILLION Video Views, and 15,000 regular followers. Together with the best football people in the USA we pursue excellence for our NW athletes.

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