DeAngelo & Gary

DeAngelo Chondon Williams and Gary Michael Barnidge are a team of Former NFL Stars on The Amazing Race 32.

DeAngelo & Gary found themselves working with the dominant Mine Five alliance throughout the race, while also relying on their physical strength and strong sense of teamwork to make it to the final four. However, they remained oblivious to the growing resentment that their allies, who saw them as freeloading from the alliance, began to develop for them as the race went on, resulting in them using the U-Turn to take out fellow alliance outsiders Eswar & Aparna in the ninth leg as opposed to the teams further up in the Mine Five's hierarchy. In the following leg, as the final four teams faced a memory task right before the Pit Stop, DeAngelo & Gary were finally hit with the realization of their fraught social standing within their alliance as the other three teams ganged up on them by sharing the answer to the task with each other to take out the former NFL players. Enraged by what their former allies had done, DeAngelo & Gary took a two-hour penalty for not finishing the task, effectively quitting the race in 4th place.

Profile[]

Retrieved from CBS.com^[3]

DeAngelo Williams[]

Name: DeAngelo Williams
Age: 37
Hometown: Charlotte, North Carolina
Current occupation: Retired from the NFL. Played nine years for the Carolina Panthers and two years for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Describe what you do: I'm a badass car rider line parent.
Three words to describe you: A natural winner.
Favorite hobbies: Hunting, riding bikes, and running 5Ks.
What is the accomplishment you are most proud of? My wife and four kids.
What excites you most about traveling? Diving into new cultures and meeting new people.
What country and place would you most like to visit and why? I've been to my favorite place, Shanghai, China! For a new country, it would be Estonia in Europe. Really small but really safe.
What do you hope to accomplish by running The Amazing Race with your partner (other than winning one million bucks)? I look forward to the sport and competitive aspect of it. Since I have been retired from professional football, I have missed the competition.

Gary Barnidge[]

Name: Gary Barnidge
Age: 34
Hometown: Middleburg, Florida
Current occupation: Retired from the NFL and now work on my non-Profit AFWB (American Football Without Barriers). Played for the Carolina Panthers and Cleveland Browns.
Describe what you do: FWB brings 15+ NFL players overseas and puts on free football camps for children, men, and women. We also visit charities and take in the cultures of the different countries we visit. Just finished our eighth international camp.
Three words to describe you: Adventurous, competitive, and honest.
Favorite hobbies: Traveling, video games, and board games.
What is the accomplishment you are most proud of? Being the first person in my family to graduate from college while also achieving my dream of making it to the NFL.
What scares you most about traveling? Nothing. I love everything to do with it but I guess if I had to pick something it would be being in the middle seat on a long flight.
What excites you most about traveling? Everything because I love to learn about the new cultures and see everything the country has to offer, while also trying to find something adventurous to do.
What country and place would you most like to visit and why? Well, I have visited my top three choices so I feel like any of those would be great: Egypt, Iceland, and New Zealand. If I had to pick somewhere I haven't been, I would say Peru to do something with Machu Picchu.
What do you hope to accomplish by running The Amazing Race with your partner (other than winning one million bucks)? Just get that adrenaline going again because when you are retired you don't get that competitive environment again, so this allows us to achieve that environment in a race around the world. Also just getting a chance to see so many countries is another big plus. Our main goal is to make it to every country.

The Amazing Race 32[]

Race History[]

DeAngelo & Gary's Race History
Episode	Leg	Destination(s)	Detour Choice (underlined)	Roadblock Performer	Placement	Notes
1	1	United States → Trinidad and Tobago	No Detour	Gary	10 of 11
2	2	Trinidad and Tobago → Colombia	No Detour	DeAngelo	2 of 10
3	3	Colombia → Brazil	Shelter from Trees / Well Done Please	No Roadblock	5 of 9
4	4	Brazil → Paraguay	Stack Your Melons / Use Your Melon	DeAngelo	7 of 8
5	5	Paraguay → France	No Detour	Gary	5 of 8	^[1]
5	5	Paraguay → France	No Detour	DeAngelo	5 of 8	^[1]
6	6	France → Germany	Belt It Out / Belch It Out	DeAngelo	1 of 7
7	7	Germany → Kazakhstan	Great Khan's Spy / Knock Out Guy	No Roadblock	4 of 7
8	8	Kazakhstan → India	Food App / Number Trap	Gary	2 of 6	^[2]
9	8	India	This / That	Gary	3 of 6	^[2]
10	9	India → Cambodia	Fish / Farm	DeAngelo	4 of 5⊂
11	10	Cambodia → Philippines	No Detour	No Roadblock	4 of 4	^[3]
				Average	4.50
Legend: The team finished in first place The team finished in last place and was eliminated from the race The team finished in last place in a non-elimination leg The team that won The Amazing Race The team that crossed the Finish Line second The team that crossed the Finish Line third > The team used the Yield < Recipient of the Yield ⊂ The team used the U-Turn ⊃ Recipient of the U-Turn ⋐ The team that used the second slot of the "Double U-Turn" ⋑ Recipient of a second U-Turn due to the "Double U-Turn" twist
Notes: 1: Leg 5 had two Roadblocks and no Detour. The team member who sat out the first Roadblock was required to perform the second one. 2: Leg 8 was a megaleg, with two Detours and two Roadblocks, shown over two episodes. The placement listed in the top row reflect the order teams completed the first half's roadblock. 3: DeAngelo & Gary failed to complete the Route Info task at Mehan Garden and elected to take a 2-hour penalty.

Post-Race[]

Trivia[]

DeAngelo & Gary are the second former NFL Team to compete on the race, following Chester & Ephraim in The Amazing Race 23.
- They are the fifth and sixth contestants associated with NFL after Ken Greene, Marcus Pollard, and Chester & Ephraim. This would be followed by Rod Gardner.
DeAngelo & Gary are the highest ranked team to quit the race, finishing in 4th place.
DeAngelo was a guest judge on Ink Master Rivals, Episode 12.

External links[]

DeAngelo's Wikipedia page: DeAngelo Williams

Gary's Wikipedia page: Gary Barnidge

Interviews[]

Amanda Ferguson at WFMYNews2 (11/12/2020): "It was a blast"
Joy Eng at Gold Derby (12/10/2020): "'DeAngelo and Gary feel betrayed by a 'super secret alliance' you never saw"
Mike Bloom at Parade (12/10/2020): "DeAngelo and Gary Clarify Their Post-Race Feelings and an Unseen Alliance"