Pole Tim: You're highest level of football played
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Middle SchoolMiddle school was as far as I could make it. I realized it wasn't for me when during a game I started crying because the guy I was covering was so much bigger and stronger than me and kept knocking me on my ass.
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High School
I got absolutely destroyed once by a guy named Alex Linnencohl that was a three year starter for Oregon State. Most high school lineman aren’t good or quick enough to pick up a blitz. I was used to going untouched but Linnencohl absolutely fucked me up.GreenRiverGatorz said:Freshman football was my pinnacle. The last play I remember was trying to bull rush a future UW guard who outweighed me by 70 pounds. The concussion made me hazy, but our coach was nice enough to show the replay to the whole team in film review. Big belly laughs all around. I'd never seen anyone fly five yards backwards before, or since. I'm thankful to him for crushing any football delusions I may have had early in the process.
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Janet Reno
Attempted, high school, bent a knee the wrong way, PT bill came and one of my dads said I could go out for the chess team. Broke a finger the next year playing speed chess. What was once a promising career ended in giving sexual favors to dads and moms in the bathroom on parent teacher night, and the occasional administrator.
My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. -
High School
Lol, some things are universal. Teammates being delighted in seeing us getting fucking rag dolled in film review is a childhood tradition unlike any other.1to392831weretaken said:
youmesame.gifUW_Doog_Bot said:I think I graduated high school 135lbs.
I started my senior season at 162 pounds--heaviest I would be until the beer and soul-crushing Husky fandom pushed me over the edge in my mid-thirties. I ended that season (and graduated) at 145, after 17 pounds of injury-related muscle atrophy. I was small but at least looked like a football player in August. Looked like a little dork wiener in December.
youmesame.gifGreenRiverGatorz said:Freshman football was my pinnacle. The last play I remember was trying to bull rush a future UW guard who outweighed me by 70 pounds. The concussion made me hazy, but our coach was nice enough to show the replay to the whole team in film review. Big belly laughs all around. I'd never seen anyone fly five yards backwards before, or since. I'm thankful to him for crushing any football delusions I may have had early in the process.
Highlight of senior season team film review was the time I was chasing a play from behind on the sideline and the 270 pound tight end turned around to seal me off. Stupidly figured my full head of steam would make up for his 100 pounds. The camera was panning, following the play. My collision with this dude happened in about the middle of the screen. I did not land in frame... Whole room sounded like that picture of Browning being flipped/spun looked. Whole bunch of "OH, SHIT!" and "DUUUUUUUDE!" Coach rewound and played it back a lot of times. By request.
I feel sorry for guys who grew up to be great athletes playing on awesome teams. How boring later in life! Being a shitty midget on a shitty team makes for way better stories decades later. -
High SchoolMy JR year, in a playoff game, one of my teammates (who was a very good player) got blind-sided on a kickoff by a dude who went on to play at USC...full-speed, both knocked out cold for about 5 minutes, and both stayed in the game (Pat Hill Tuff)...we watched that in film , over and over, and laughed our asses off...it was one of about a dozen concussions he had, and he lost a scholly because of it...
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JuCo/Small CollegeKeep this shit coming, love the blown the f up stories.
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Janet Reno
I was never blown the f up, but during warmups one of my teammate threw a football at me - it went right IN MY FACE.GrundleStiltzkin said:Keep this shit coming, love the blown the f up stories.
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High School
I was just slow strategy to the max physically developing. My frame didn't stop growing until I was 30 or so.1to392831weretaken said:
youmesame.gifUW_Doog_Bot said:I think I graduated high school 135lbs.
I started my senior season at 162 pounds--heaviest I would be until the beer and soul-crushing Husky fandom pushed me over the edge in my mid-thirties. I ended that season (and graduated) at 145, after 17 pounds of injury-related muscle atrophy. I was small but at least looked like a football player in August. Looked like a little dork wiener in December.
youmesame.gifGreenRiverGatorz said:Freshman football was my pinnacle. The last play I remember was trying to bull rush a future UW guard who outweighed me by 70 pounds. The concussion made me hazy, but our coach was nice enough to show the replay to the whole team in film review. Big belly laughs all around. I'd never seen anyone fly five yards backwards before, or since. I'm thankful to him for crushing any football delusions I may have had early in the process.
Highlight of senior season team film review was the time I was chasing a play from behind on the sideline and the 270 pound tight end turned around to seal me off. Stupidly figured my full head of steam would make up for his 100 pounds. The camera was panning, following the play. My collision with this dude happened in about the middle of the screen. I did not land in frame... Whole room sounded like that picture of Browning being flipped/spun looked. Whole bunch of "OH, SHIT!" and "DUUUUUUUDE!" Coach rewound and played it back a lot of times. By request.
I feel sorry for guys who grew up to be great athletes playing on awesome teams. How boring later in life! Being a shitty midget on a shitty team makes for way better stories decades later. -
High SchoolI received a few letters to small schools for basketball (Seamount all leaguer), but followed a girl to Udub & became an IMA Legend in my own mind.
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Janet Reno
What happened with you and the girl?Laocoön said:I received a few letters to small schools for basketball (Seamount all leaguer), but followed a girl to Udub & became an IMA Legend in my own mind.
