Congratulations to FirefightnRick - Retirement after 30-years

TheColonyEagle · March 1

Congrats Rick!

kingwoodgreen · March 1

Wished we had thousands more fans like you.

Ross Hodgeson · March 1

Enjoy your time off!

Cr1028 · March 1

Congratulations to the legend @FirefightnRick!

Travis · March 1

I have always appreciated Rick’s love for this school and I wish we had more like him.

Dannymacfan · March 1

Thank you for your years of service. A well deserved retirement for you. Hope you will get to enjoy yourself with travel and golf etc.

bstnsportsfan3 · March 1

Congrats @FirefightnRick one of the best MG fans around! Also a heck of a firefighter and human! Well deserved!

Mo Green · March 1

Ric hope you have a bang (hear cannon) on you going out to pasture like me!

FirefightnRick · March 1

Thank y’all for the kind words.

You know I’ve always felt like one of the most blessed people on earth for being able to share life with three different families. My family at home, my fire family at work and my Mean Green family. Emergency workers need their families to de stress and take their thoughts of the shift somewhere else, and this family, my Mean Green family has certainly done that for me. Whether we are fighting over our opinions on subjects of the moment, or loving each other in celebrating Mean Green successes…it’s all been a family to me and helped me focus on happier times.

My last shift yesterday was an overwhelming day of emotion, reflection and joy seeing family and friends and coworkers one last time at the station. I greatly appreciate hearing from so many of you, and was especially proud seeing @SilverEagle repping the Mean Green at my station, as well as his Mean Green alumn son Jeff, or as he’s known now on the FWFD, Chief Covert.

I hope to make more games now, hopefully more road games, though my wife’s Honey-Do list has now grown longer than a @PlummMeanGreen
post on national “Stadium Day”. So I’ll see how it goes.

So till the next tailgate,….It’s All Good And All Green.

Rick

Edited March 1 by FirefightnRick

wardly · March 1

19 hours ago, Stix said:

It's always mentioned that Rick was "seen but unseen" as the armadillo mascot, but he did get one second (two?) of face time when he fired the cannon:

wardly · March 1

Thanks for your service to FT. Worth as well as your passionate and long time support on North Texas athletics.I first met you at the 1st New Orleans Bowl over 20 years ago. Trust me , at age 81 the next 20 years of your live will fly by[like an eagle?]. Mine, not so much. Take care,Ward White.

SilverEagle · March 2

2 hours ago, FirefightnRick said:

Thank y’all for the kind words.

You know I’ve always felt like one of the most blessed people on earth for being able to share life with three different families. My family at home, my fire family at work and my Mean Green family. Emergency workers need their families to de stress and take their thoughts of the shift somewhere else, and this family, my Mean Green family has certainly done that for me. Whether we are fighting over our opinions on subjects of the moment, or loving each other in celebrating Mean Green successes…it’s all been a family to me and helped me focus on happier times.

My last shift yesterday was an overwhelming day of emotion, reflection and joy seeing family and friends and coworkers one last time at the station. I greatly appreciate hearing from so many of you, and was especially proud seeing @SilverEagle repping the Mean Green at my station, as well as his Mean Green alumn son Jeff, or as he’s known now on the FWFD, Chief Covert.

I hope to make more games now, hopefully more road games, though my wife’s Honey-Do list has now grown longer than a @PlummMeanGreen
post on national “Stadium Day”. So I’ll see how it goes.

So till the next tailgate,….It’s All Good And All Green.

Rick

For clarification. He is a Battalion Chief (Battalion 1, A-shift). Since there are many of them, that makes him A Chief.....not THE Chief.

So proud of you Rick. You are the perfect model of a true fan. My hope is that more and more people will be inspired to emulate you.

jtm0097 · March 2

Congratulations Rick! Enjoy your retirement.

Tommy Gadberry · March 2

Congratulations Rick. With your enthusiasm and energy shown in our adjacent sections on gameday I never saw you as the retiring type - and still don't lol, but I certainly do wish you only the best in your future endeavors.

rcade · March 4

Congratulations, @FirefightnRick! You've come a long way since Pauline G. Hughes Middle School basketball.

MeanGreen_MBA · March 5

Nice! Well done. Time to live your best life.

MeanGreenSig · March 5

Congrats Rick!!!!!!

Rudy · March 5

Congratulations on your well earned retirement!

meangreenfaninno · March 6

Rick you have been such an inspiration to us all. So happy you are able to retire after all your hard work on behalf of UNT. I hope you get to travel, fish and do all the fun things you most certainly deserve now that you are officially retired.

UNTLifer · March 6

Quitter. Did you catch the diabeatus and transfer to smut?

KingDL1 · March 11

Wow, Congrats Rick! Happy Retirement!

Mean Green Eagle · March 11

Congrats on 30 years! Enjoy your new-found time.

C Vo · March 25

Congratulations on your retirement!

rcade · March 29

On 3/4/2024 at 5:32 PM, rcade said:

Congratulations, @FirefightnRick! You've come a long way since Pauline G. Hughes Middle School basketball.

To the person who gave this a Confused: FirefightnRick and I played on the same middle school basketball team in Burleson in the early 1980s. I'd like to say we dominated the league.

It isn't true but I'd like to say it.