Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:15 pm Posts: 25452 Location: Under my wing like Sanford & Son Gender: Male
I played football for Travis Middle School. I was the center on the B Team, which meant that I was big and smart, but not very athletic. Travis was THE school in our town. We always won, and big time. Even as the center for the B Team I was making pancake blocks and bloodying my opponents and so forth. Things were good, but they would get better.
My intelligence and dedication made me a favorite of both the coaches and my fellow players. As the last game of my 8th grade year drew closer, my coaches recalled my exploits during flag football season in 6th grade. Often I would score 6 touchdowns in a game, forgetting for 45 minutes that I was slow and flat footed and simultaneously becoming fleet-footed running back and strong-willed posession receiver. With this knowledge they devised a plan.
A few practices before the last game, they announced we'd be running the standard Power I formation, with one key difference: yours truly at halfback. They wanted to give me a touchdown. We ran the play in practice against the A Team front seven, and to my disbelief I broke though their blitz for a big gain. The stage was set.
Late December. Game 9 vs. the blue and white of Copperas Cove. We lead by three touchdowns. The call comes, I take the ball, I push through the line off the right guard's far shoulder, and my legs don't stop pumping til I'm eye to eye with the goalpost. Touchdown.
My friends, no score was ever as sweet as this one. The day belonged to one Nathanael D. of Temple, TX.
That's my story.
_________________ Now that god no longer exists, the desire for another world still remains.
little league i was an early draftee to the majors. played catcher, and one time bunted and reached 3rd on a comedy of errors on it. quit baseball as soon as i realised how dumb it was.
from 19-22 or 23 i played in the national croation club basketball tournements and traveled to harrisburg pa, hamilton ontario, canton ohio, sharon pa. our team sucked as i was the tallest guy on our team, and the teams we played had 6'7 - 6'8 guys on their roster. most i think i ever scored was maybe 15 pts or so. one quarter, i particularly remember we got trounced 30-2.
recently took up hockey in the past 3-5 years. defenseman at first but the few seasons i switched to winger ive done fairly well, averaging probably about 20-25 pts in the regular season. most memorable moments was drawing a penalty in OT, getting up after the penalty and telling my bench and now that i did that, im going to win it right here. off the face off ball comes to me and I one timed it top right corner. im also the reigning champion of the turkey cup, ive won it every year since they started it.
ive missed my only penalty shot and so far have won 4 or 5 championships there
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 10:59 am Posts: 9057 Location: Camden, NJ
in LL I threw a no-no against the pirates and then the next yr that teams coach drafted me and refused to let me pitch all year.
I missed being selected to play for the 1989 Trumbull LL team that won the LL WS because 3 of the kids on that team had the coaches over for dinner and kissed their asses and stuff, one mother BEGGED the coach to let her kid play on the team, so I was told "we have enough pitchers, maybe next year".
In H.S., I could kick a 50 yard FG.
and I can strike out Barry Bonds with a whiffle ball.
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-Ernie Accorsi in his final address to the NY Giants locker room before retiring as GM in January of 2007
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:47 am Posts: 46000 Location: Reasonville
i ran for four touchdowns in one game when i attended polk high. i now drive a dodge.
_________________ No matter how dark the storm gets overhead They say someone's watching from the calm at the edge What about us when we're down here in it? We gotta watch our backs
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 11:36 pm Posts: 25824 Location: south jersey
football-i broke my index finger in two different places, on two different plays, in the same game in highschool. i played the whole game though, and playing qb w/ a broken finger is an accomplishment in and of itself. scoring twice w/ a broken finger is even better.
wrestling-i took 4th in districts my soph. year in highschool. which wasnt bad considering the 3 kids ahead of me were all seniors. i wasnt allowed to wrestle my junior and senior years, so unfortunately i cant tell you guys about my state titles
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Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2004 11:31 am Posts: 2622 Location: South of Boston, North of Stoughton
i was the 4th leg of the 4 x 100 relay in highschool. and on the other team was alfred fincher also the 4th leg (formally of UCONN, now a LB for the Saints), and my relay team won. Granted I had such a big league going into the final leg I only had to hold the lead.
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Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:34 am Posts: 12700 Location: ...a town in north Ontario...
I was 19 years old the first time I played organized hockey... I scored two goals that year. That was cool.
I played soccer when I was about 8... between myself and the two guys I played forward with, we scored over 100 goals in a 15 game season and dominated 13-0 in the finals. I've played baseball ever since.
_________________ I think we relinquished enough... and it's still dark enough... and it goes on and on and on...
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 1:14 am Posts: 37778 Location: OmaGOD!!! Gender: Male
I was consistently barely not good enough to make it to the next level. I was the last kid cut for both the travelling soccer team and the all-star baseball team in my town when I was a kid. I was really small early in high school, so I kept getting my ass handed to me in lacrosse even though I had pretty decent skills. I did varsity swimming for a couple of years, but was basically a body for the relay teams and someone to put in the outside lanes for the other events. But I was a decent diver, and I earned my points that way, even though I couldn't do a reverse dive and always defaulted if that was the required category.
After quitting lacrosse, I played golf for three years, and I was really pretty good at that, except for the fact that I was short and couldn't hit it very far until after I was out of high school. We had a really good team, so I ended up consistently playing number 5 or 6 man on a six man team, but I could play around bogey golf, which was better than the six man on almost every other team, so I consistently brought points to the team. My senior year, our team was five seniors and one junior, and all of us had been on the team for the past three years. We went 20-1 in matches that season. Too bad golf in New York is an "individual" sport when it comes to state championships, I think we could have beeaten any other 6 man team in a match that year.
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Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2004 3:26 am Posts: 7994 Location: Philadelphia
It was only a pickup game but when I was about 17 or 18 I hit a 3 pointer on 5 consecutive posessions.
In Little League the summer before high school my team went undefeated and only gave up 5 runs in 17 games. I pitched about 15 innings that year and didn't give up any runs. I probably averaged 4 SB's a game that year.
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Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:05 am Posts: 8045 Location: Arlington Heights, IL Gender: Male
During my 3rd grade little league season i came in to pitch the bottom of the last inning with the basesloaded and nobody out and us up by 2. It was the first and only time i would ever pitch in little league. After i walked the first batter to cut the lead to 1, i struck out the next 3 batters to end the game. We ended up going 18-0 that year.
Junior and Senior year of baseball combined i played in a total of 2 games, and had 2 at-bats. Our coach was a complete idiot and didnt give people like me and a few others even a chance. It was alright though because sitting on the bench was way more fun then playing.
Freshman year of high school football i had something like 115 tackles and 7 forced fumbles, but my head coach still didnt know who i was. I hate that man with a passion.
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