When first overall draft pick Cam Ward takes the field for the Tennessee Titans this NFL season, he\u2019ll have his family back in Texas rooting for him \u2014 along with a 1,200-person cheering section in a surprising place: the state\u2019s largest nuclear power plant.<\/p>\n
Calvin Ward, Cam\u2019s father, started his career in nuclear energy long before the budding superstar quarterback was born. For the past 35 years, he\u2019s been with the South Texas Project Electric Generating Station (STP), where he works in nuclear fuel purchasing.<\/p>\n
Located 90 miles southwest of Houston, STP is the fourth-largest nuclear plant in the nation. Its two reactors generate 2,700 megawatts of electricity and provide reliable energy to two million Texas homes. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Calvin said most of the plant\u2019s 1,200 employees are Cowboys and Texans fans, but they\u2019re making an exception for their hometown hero.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, the plant is rooting for [Cam],\u201d Calvin Ward said. \u201cPlus, a lot of them are college football fans, so they were already following him to begin with.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When first overall draft pick Cam Ward takes the field for the Tennessee Titans this NFL season, he\u2019ll…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-135658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}