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I played rugby and simply got destroyed by gigantic Samoan dudes enough times to give up
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D2 walk on as DL crossed my mind until I blew out my knee in HS. Now I just do oly lifting.
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Tennis checking in. There was no football at my a school when I attended. There was programs along with ice hockey back in the 50's but budget cuts got rid of them. Apparently ice hockey is making a comeback for the schools so that's something.
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I played drums in marching band at a lot of HS football games
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3 DONG HORSE posted:guy who quit practice the first day to instead join cross country checking in high school freshman year I did practices all summer including the dreaded two-a-days then right before the first game decided I'd had enough of this bullshit and quit lol I was on the roster as a guard but I could see the writing on the wall that I was never gonna see the field. Did get in probably the best shape of my life though so it wasn't a total waste Also my school didn't even have a team or field, we had to merge with a neighboring town to have enough kids
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Feb 1, 2024 20:57
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Docjowles posted:high school freshman year I did practices all summer including the dreaded two-a-days then right before the first game decided I'd had enough of this bullshit and quit lol lol  i tried both practices. at the football one there was yelling and lots of intensity and feeling like poo poo. i go to cross country in the evening and it's just chill vibes and girls butts everywhere. easy decision. this was before i actually cared about football. i might've had a different perspective if i had watched anything beyond the Super Bowl back then.
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I was a long snapper in pee wee and was reasonably accurate at it. That was the high point of my competitive athletics.
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3 DONG HORSE posted:i go to cross country in the evening and it's just chill vibes and girls butts everywhere. This is the exact description of me going to wrestling practice the first day in a dank subterranean padded room full of dudes that had beaded sweat on the walls and then walking upstairs and checking out the first track practice which i ended up doing for four years instead.
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Feb 1, 2024 21:21
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Colonel Whitey posted:If you really want to hurt someone you gotta go full Three Stooges and pull out the foot stomp into eye poke true combo Didn't Talib poke a guy in the eye?
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Feb 1, 2024 21:37
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I'm from the UK so had to deliberately seek American football out. It suited me because I just got to hit people and not touch the ball. Cricket and football are hard if you have no skills and you had to run too much in rugby
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Feb 1, 2024 22:09
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I played 7th and 8th grade football. I was a tight end and I remember in 7th grade practice after practice getting knocked on my rear end over and over again by this 8th grade kid I had to block who had probably 50 pounds and six inches on me. He was cool though. He told me to keep trying. I think I caught 2 passes in two years lol In 9th grade I was a manager for the team and that was actually fun. Focused on track and tennis
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Feb 1, 2024 22:47
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MikeCrotch posted:I'm from the UK so had to deliberately seek American football out. It suited me because I just got to hit people and not touch the ball. Cricket and football are hard if you have no skills and you had to run too much in rugby My dad played rugby to a relatively high level. Not even remotely close to even top level club but county level and he loved American football, but I'm not sure if it's because he saw the extremely vague similiarities or because when it was on Channel 4 he couldn't watch it on our main TV so was able to not have to spend time with my mum for three hours a week (they did love each other, honest). And as the only other room in the house with a TV was in the room I shared with my brother, I started watching it with him. I also played rugby for a few years, and my style of "running towards the biggest player on the opposition and trying to tackle him" despite being a tall and very slight kid probably led to me giving it up
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Feb 1, 2024 23:24
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I played football until my sophomore year of highschool, then I got an injury and missed the rest of the season. Started playing Rugby in the spring and loved it. Stuck with that instead afterwards since it wasn't like I was gonna play in college as a 5'9" defensive end. In retrospect I kinda wish I'd not played contact sports. Got 1 concussion in football and 3 in Rugby, maybe more. Always worried my brain will be swiss cheese as some point from that. Rugby is supposedly less bad about concussions, but even if that was true globally it didn't seem like it was true in the US. Too many dudes try to tackle like it's football.
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MikeCrotch posted:I'm from the UK so had to deliberately seek American football out. It suited me because I just got to hit people and not touch the ball. Cricket and football are hard if you have no skills and you had to run too much in rugby Honestly getting to hit people does seem like it would be a lot less stressful. I didn't like getting the ball on 75% of the plays in I-formation Edit: off-tackle, too. Just me and a linebacker and a defensive back chillin outside the hashmark
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Colonel Whitey posted:I played drums in marching band at a lot of HS football games Trombone in high school and college marching bands. And theater tech crew. Lights and sound baby!
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My plant's HR manager just sent out the following notice:quote:In celebration of the San Francisco 49er’s and Taylor Swift’s boyfriend’s team going to the Superbowl, we are going to have a little potluck! Brink your favorite Superbowl snacks to share with your peers! We will set up the potluck area at 10:30am on Friday, 2/9 near the main production lunch room! I had a hearty chuckle.
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Android Apocalypse posted:Tennis checking in. same, i didnt wanna play a sport where the other person could touch me. also the girl i had a crush on was gonna join the team and the coach didnt believe in cutting anyone so i was able to learn the game until i got good enough to actually play against other schools. the other thing that was cool was that we played against the other DODEA schools in europe so we'd get on these 14 hour busrides from england across the chunnel to belgium and germany. the prospect of going on a 14 hour busride was a lot more fun when you're a teenager.
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MikeCrotch posted:I'm from the UK so had to deliberately seek American football out. It suited me because I just got to hit people and not touch the ball. Cricket and football are hard if you have no skills and you had to run too much in rugby it felt like a crime that skysports never broadcasted any college football, since its on saturday and i would actually get a chance to stay up late and watch the games. as opposed to the nfl where i could really only catch the 1pm games
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Our high school football team sucked, badly, and I didn't know much about football at all at the time but I was tall and athletic (track & field) and they were pretty desperate so when I joined in my senior year they put me in as a defensive end. I remember our huge but softhearted linemen crying a lot during practices, also a lot of potentially good players quit during the first day of tryouts. Our head coach was a huge dick who also taught chemistry class. One time I threw up while doing laps w/ pads and decided I was loving done for that day--a coach tried to get me going again by asking me HOW MUCH DO YOU WANT THIS? CAN YOU DO THIS? And I was like... Honestly I don't particularly care, this isn't even my main sport. Anyway tackling people is pretty cool and fun, seeing people get concussed/knocked out is terrifying, and getting your rear end kicked in a physically brutal sport sucks tremendously. Highlights: I got one (1) career sack and also we won our homecoming game. I think we had two wins total and the actual good schools just put in their JV teams against us. The team folded permanently a year or two after I graduated and I think the coach ended up disgraced for some sort of crime.
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Actually I looked up the stats and the team folded a full decade after I graduated, and they didn't win a single league game in that span. drat that's depressing.
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kiimo posted:lol I'm not saying the Ravens were even incorrect to do so but I guess Mahomes and Kelce should just take it? And if they push back they're cunts? Just trying to follow AFCN logic here. Ofc you don't just take it, you forfeit your cred when you whine about it
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You do mean poo poo like point at the scoreboard and knock one of their players out. That's the proper etiquette, noob
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Bird in a Blender posted:Trombone in high school and college marching bands. And theater tech crew. Lights and sound baby! I also did drum corps and played on a few pro football fields. Seattle, Indy, and Denver are the ones I can remember. That’s my connection to football
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Vox Nihili posted:Actually I looked up the stats and the team folded a full decade after I graduated, and they didn't win a single league game in that span. drat that's depressing. My HS basically lost every game as well until one kid ended up being extremely good. The entire playbook was hand it to this guy and let him run. He was so good it's basically all they ever did and we creamed the other (admittedly lovely) high schools. He ended up like getting one year as a Bills practice squad member. Interestingly he was not even remotely a dick head or egotistical, super nice guy, good grades, just all around decent dude. I looked him up after this, turns out he was practice squad for both the Bills and the Chiefs (couple weeks for the chiefs). durabrand107 fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Feb 2, 2024 |
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My high school had a terrible football team when I went there. I was also a girl so I wasn't allowed to play football. I managed to avoid taking gym until my senior year when I had do a full year of it to graduate. The gym teacher was also a football coach and thought I played flag football too rough so I could only go after male classmates. I also never took Washington state history so I had to do an after school study group to graduate. That's because I went to 3 different middle schools between 2 different districts so it got dropped and no one noticed until the last quarter of my senior year.
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I played rugby and had my sternum cracked by a late hit that put me out half the season when I was 16, played a full year at flanker when I was 17. Then I did mma because I was 155 pounds by the time I was 20 and weight classes made more sense than hitting dudes who were pushing 300 or being blindsided by them. Now I just lift stuff and do cardio and occasionally give a heavy bag a floggin.
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My football highlight was probably scoring four touchdowns in a single game against Andrew Johnson High in the City Championship game. I still remember the play call where I scored on a 75 yard run, “42 blast”. Good stuff.
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My high school football team was lousy until Tavita Pritchard was our quarterback, then we finally won against our rival Lakes High School (where Jermaine Kearse, but not at the same time). Tavita went to Stanford and ended up as the offensive coordinator under David Shaw for several years, not sure what he's up to now.
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I played with Shaun King’s little brother Cedric and Michael Lynch who finished like Top 5? On American Idol. I played D-End and Guard for a really bad high school but we went 7-3 and should have won a playoff game (got hosed by the refs) by senior year. Right back into the gutter after that. I was probably a replacement level high school player, though miscast at my positions, but even that was good enough to start for 3 1/2 years at my HS.
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fartknocker posted:Fake Shemp is one of the characters you unlock after beating the game on the hardest difficulty (Chowderhead) along with Joe and Curly Joe. Everyone still just uses Moe or Curly. Christine McIntyre DLC.
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I thought SA had a bunch of guys who played at the college level in football? I'm probably not going to let my kid play contact sports beyond basketball. Too many concussions, too many bad injuries that lingered for decades, and cutting for weight is awful. I probably need to get him into judo or something though
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Gymnastics is a fantastic start and then they can try what interests them with your approval. Soccer is an excellent choice and is massively popular with the younger gens proportionately to genX and older in the U.S.
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:Gymnastics is a fantastic start and then they can try what interests them with your approval. There's some issues with the heading of the ball and concussions apparently but I haven't checked the latest research. Get your kids into BJJ, it'll be an olympic sport in a few years and your kids will be gods if anyone fucks with them by the time they're in their teens, its good for fitness and it humbles you constantly so you don't end up a bully.
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I never played a sport in my life so I am the most qualified poster in TFF to provide insight.
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Asproigerosis posted:I never played a sport in my life so I am the most qualified poster in TFF to provide insight. Have you ever breathed anything but stale conditioned air? If so, you've been out into the wider world, leaving you less distant from sports than I, the true grognard who knows only the pale glow of a monitor. Only those who have never experienced can truly know sports.
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Edna Mode posted:My high school football team was lousy until Tavita Pritchard was our quarterback, then we finally won against our rival Lakes High School (where Jermaine Kearse, but not at the same time). Tavita went to Stanford and ended up as the offensive coordinator under David Shaw for several years, not sure what he's up to now. Apparently he’s the commies fresh new QB coach! (had to check you weren’t talking about the Lakes High School I grew up nearby, whose only notableish NFLer is TJ Edwards)
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I played flag football in grade school. I kinda stunk at it.
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My parents thought I was too small to do football so eventually I just ended up in wrestling and track. Then it turned into kickboxing and grappling after high school. I always wondered what I might have been good at in football since my build filled out like a running back later.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Christine McIntyre DLC. Only if the DLC also includes Vernon Dent
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