Confess! Anyone here ever play football? (College, HS or Jr High)

[wildhorses]

Inquiring minds want to know:P










Hey...whassa matter...I made a CLEAN copycat and, you know there are some that I could've made oh so dirty:evilgrin:

[underpants]

1. High School

I made Honorable mention in a 5 team division!

[wildhorses]

3. Excellent

:applause:

[RedStateShame]

2. High school...one year

I played defensive guard as a rough, battle-tested 175 pound powerhouse freshman. I had 2 statistics from a whole season: 1 tackle, and a 15 yard penalty for unsportsmanlike. Apparently, somebody thinks punching somebody in the gut repeatedly is "unsportsmanlike."

[wildhorses]

5. mmmm....anger issues, anyone?

:P

[SteppingRazor]

10. Hey, it's football...

I used to wear forearm pads, so that I could uppercut pass blockers with my forearm to their chins, under their helmets, without getting hurt. Amazing how few times I got called on it.

[wildhorses]

38. here's for playing .....oh so dirty.... you rascal!!!

:applause:

[SteppingRazor]

4. High School, OLB on freshman team...

had 1.5 sacks in my first couple games, until a bruised liver took me out for the season -- and then my mommy wouldn't let me play again :P

[wildhorses]

6. Mommy!!!

but, Mommy x( :P

[driver8]

66. I told my mother that if I ever got hurt in a game, no matter how serious

the injury was...she was never, ever to run out onto the field!

[hfojvt]

7. I played one season of touch football in college

No tackling, but blocking was allowed.
Otherwise I just played backyard scrimmages.

Uh-oh. I said 'touch'. Someone's dirty mind could gallop away with that.

[wildhorses]

26. are you referring to moi???

why don't we take it r-e-a-l s--l--o--w and easy then do it like Tina on Proud Mary and finish up ROUGH....:evilgrin:

[texas1928]

8. Played in Junior High...

Quit when I got to High School, but started getting into shape my Sophomore year to go back in and got shot, so could not go in.

[wildhorses]

24. excuse me.......did you just say that you got shot???

please...will you share the REST OF THE STORY

[Rude Horner]

9. I played benchwarmer in a boys city league back in the day

What can I say? I was small for my age at that time. My favorite memories involve a night game on a cold Fall evening, and having multiple cups of hot chocolate on the sidelines, and then being sent in for one play, and not knowing what the hell position I was supposed to play so I just ran around like a chicken with my head cut off. And I was involved in the tackle on that play. Woohooo!!! :)

[wildhorses]

25. .......good story!

:applause:

[XNASA]

11. I played from 6th grade until I was a Junior in HS.

I was actually the Captain of my HS Freshman team. I got hurt before the season started my Junior year, during two-a-days, and gave it up.

[wildhorses]

27. you are a credit to the game

:applause:

[XNASA]

52. I thank you.

And my right knee thanks you.

[BrotherBuzz]

12. Four year high school

Lettered three years. Played the entire game, both offense and defense because we only had fourteen players on our lousy team. Four years, and we never won a single game. Hoot, no college scout even attempted to recruit me.

:rofl:

[wildhorses]

29. and I thought I lived out in the boonies....

:P


well done I say:applause:

[BrotherBuzz]

46. Boonies?

My high school had over 1,700 students in a very uber-liberal suburban area just seventeen minutes from downtown San Francisco. The Vietnam war was the root of the problem because the anti-war movement equated football to war, and consequently, our crappy team was shunned and shamed at every turn. The only reward I received was learning that I was not a quitter.

[wildhorses]

49. sorry, I assumed that the small team was due to a very

small school. that being said then let's hear it for BrotherBuzz who stuck with it when the going was tough!!!
:applause:

[Blue-Jay]

13. Yep. Wrestled too.

Also in the band.

[GirlinContempt]

23. Weird

my gym teacher asked me to join the football team because of wrestling in gym

[wildhorses]

32. weird....maybe but, you showed some talent and skill...

way to go GiC:applause:

[wildhorses]

30. now let's hear it for an all round talented fellow

:applause:

[1gobluedem]

14. My father was our high school football coach, does that count?

I didn't play because I'm female (and would have been lousy anyway; I'm a klutz) but my brother played for him. My bro also played in college.

My father was the tennis coach too and my brother also played on that team.

My father was coach of the year in the state for both sports but not the same year.

[wildhorses]

31. and I say three cheers for your father!!! and also to you for

being such a good daughter
:woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::applause::applause::applause:

[LouisianaLiberal]

15. I played tight end.

My nickname was butterfingers. Really.

[wildhorses]

33. ........

:spray::applause:

[NJ Democrats]

16. Not yet

But I will try out for the HS team s/t in the enxt 4 yrs. (most likely next yr.)

[wildhorses]

34. good luck to you!!

:applause:

[JVS]

17. My brother did

[wildhorses]

35. a big shout out for your brother....

:applause:

[Broken_Hero]

18. High school

but bloodclots, stopped me from playing in college, so I opted to persue a track and field career in college...:)

[wildhorses]

36. that's keeping the school spirit!!!

:applause:

[mduffy31]

19. All of the above

Now you know.....and knowing is half the battle.

[Broken_Hero]

20. Gi Joe! A real american hero...:) nt

[wildhorses]

39. forewarned is forearmed...thanks for the heads up

and for your contribution to the sport:applause:

[pscot]

21. High School

Four years and I hated it. I still can't figure out why I did it. And my senior year we didn't win a game, so it sure wasn't for the glory. I guess I wasn't getting my share of abuse at home.

[wildhorses]

40. here's to the team spirit!!!

:applause:

[jobycom]

22. Sort of. I played soccer. That's real football.

Of course, I sucked at it.

[wildhorses]

41. ........

:hug::applause:

[jobycom]

65. Thank you, thank you.

I just enjoy being a troublemaker!

[Crazy Dave]

28. Just with friends

In Jr. & Sr. High I didn't weigh enough to qualify for the teams. I was the typical 90 pound weakling back then. Now I need to lose about 9 pounds for my age and height :cry:

[wildhorses]

43. well, bless your heart...

:hug::applause:now take that and multiply it by thousands and there is your fan club...for being YOU

[GOPisEvil]

37. 8th and 9th grade only.

I really didn't love playing the game. HATED practicing. The only team sport I ever enjoyed practicing and playing equally was baseball. Too bad I had no talent at it. :sigh:

[wildhorses]

44. you can play on my softball team anytime!!!

:hug::applause:

[GaYellowDawg]

42. LOL, freshman year only...

Between December of my 8th grade year and when football practice started in mid-August, I grew from 5'0", 98 pounds (little pudgy kid) to 5'6" and... 98 pounds (yep, skinny!). The first practice I went to, the coaches determined positions. Unfortunately, I wasn't listening very well and got stuck as a defensive end. I was TERRIBLE. I had no idea what the position was about, and got hammered every day. During the season, I grew to 5'8"... and lost a pound. I was the original 97-pound weakling.

When I got into a game, you knew we had it won. I was so bad that I was responsible for making the first team go back out on the field. See, we had a 28-7 lead midway through the 3rd quarter and the coach decided to empty the bench. Then the opposing coach found out that simply running power sweeps in my direction guaranteed 6-7 yards a clip, and two possessions later in the 4th quarter, it was 28-21. My coach put the first team back in and it was 42-21 pretty quickly but the whole team was disgusted with me.

I got one tackle the whole year. One. But it was a sack!! :toast:

[wildhorses]

45. thanks for sharing

:toast::applause:

[alfredo]

47. yeah, high school and Explorer league. they (HS) had me as a

half back, but my real love was defense. Defensive linebacker was my thing. I made the Explorer league all stars as a defensive linebacker, but couldn't make the game. I was helping to build a log barn in Indiana. Explorer league was where players went when they didn't have the grades or had discipline problems at school and was barred from playing. I was a discipline problem. My grades were good.

My forearms were always bruised and swollen from tangling with offensive linemen and fullbacks that wanted to run over me. I wasn't big, but I was fast and mean.

I did get my comeuppance one game. I was pretty brutal to centers. I liked knocking them around. One game our center got hurt, and because I used to do the snapping in practice, I got the job. Now you must know, I am not a big guy. Well the opposing team saw that I was playing center, so they took revenge. After the game I had a bruise in the shape of my helmet. My lip was busted and my jaw swollen. They put the hurt on me.

Our Explorer post got disbanded for having beer and girls on our camping trip. That ended my football days.

[wildhorses]

55. Our Explorer post got disbanded for having beer and girls

on our camping trip:spray::rofl::applause:

[alfredo]

68. My first meeting with my Explorer post We got chased

by a guy with a hatchet. The other car with us got involved in a head on collision. It was the other guy's fault, not a fellow Explorer. One of our post had to go to the hospital. He had a big cut on his forehead. He was still in high spirits and though it was great fun.

Later on that night while we were waiting for a wrecker, a guy pulled a gun on us.

I ended that night convinced I found my place in life.

[regnaD kciN]

57. You're kidding...!

Our Explorer post got disbanded for having beer and girls on our camping trip.

What else were you supposed to be exploring? :evilgrin:

If you're looking for adventure
Of a new and different kind,
And you run into a Girl Scout,
Who is similarly inclined,
Don't be nervous, don't be flustered, don't be scared,
Be Prepared!!!

--Tom Lehrer

[alfredo]

69. We were like the Animal House of the Explorers.

My Cub Scout and Boy Scout careers ended on somewhat similar circumstances. I just couldn't live up to the ideals.

A lot of what I learned from my scouting years has stayed with me, but scouting and anarchy don't mix.

[enigmatic]

48. High School

3rd down reciever mostly; I had the best hands on the team, but I wasn't very quick so I was the guy who went over the middle in short yardage situations when we needed a first down..

[wildhorses]

56. way to get those First Downs!!!

:applause:

[bedpanartist]

50. Pee-Wee, Jr.High, High School, College

that enough for ya? I was all Mid-Miami and a Montgomery County (Ohio) all-star defensive tackle.

It was a perfect bridge right into the Army.

I don't call it the military/industrial complex. It's more like the high school football military industrial complex.

[wildhorses]

58. here's to a career!!

:applause:

[bedpanartist]

64. It ended unceremoniously

on an ice cold field in Tiffin, Ohio in 1986 playing against the Tiffin University Dragons. I got the snot knocked out of me so hard on a kickoff by some guy blindsiding me at full speed that I didn't know my name for a half an hour.

I kept getting weird injuries for a year afterwards too by doing regular stuff like walking across the street. I decided that playing for a small NAIA school (Cumberland University) wasn't really worth being a cripple at 40, so I packed my bags and joined the Army. Somehow, I came out of that unscathed physically (how I fared mentally is another story) ;-)

[driver8]

51. 2 years of Pop Warner and 4 years of HS football.

Also played baseball and basketball all four years.

[wildhorses]

59. here's to the all round athlete!!!

:applause:

[w8liftinglady]

53. we have a female pro-football team here...I backed out of playing on it...

after getting hurt in practice several times...(because they didn't actually PAY back then) I have a family to feed...but,I LOVED it!
feel free to root for them...
http://www.dallasdiamondsfootball.com/

[wildhorses]

60. FAR OUT and thanks for the link!!

:yourock::applause:

[regnaD kciN]

54. I CONFESS!!!!!

I was on the Dover-Sherborn (Massachusetts) High School football team.

For two days.

Then I got sane.

(I think it was the fact that one was supposed to growl loudly while attacking blocking and tackling dummies that finally sent me over the edge. I recall an epiphany, mid-way through the second part of the second practice, when I nearly burst out laughing, thinking "what the #*%* am I doing here???")

I did play football in college, but we didn't have an intercollegiate team, so it was just organized intermural flag football with a series of modified rules that could have been created by the Marx Brothers. It was fun.

[wildhorses]

62. here's to sanity... and the MarxBrothers and to having fun!!

:applause: :applause: :applause:

[Redstone]

61. Semi-pro. Conshohocken Steelers. (No connection with the

Pittsburgh Steelers; Conshohocken was a steel town back then.)

Wide receiver. $75 a game. Lasted three games.

Redstone

[wildhorses]

63. here's to the money!!

:P:applause:

[HEyHEY]

67. Right Tackle for the Winnipeg Bluebombers

NOT.

[Pierre.Suave]

70. I played all through HS

broke my ankle my sophomore year, but was back at it the next year.

I played a "monster" back, which is a linebacker position.