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I get the impression that many of us have played organized football at some point in our lives, so I thought it might be fun to learn a little something about everyone's playing days.

I'll start. I played in a rec league from 6th-8th grades. Then I played a couple of years in high school before switching to other sports. On offense I was a running back, used sort of like Chad Morton (sweeps, draw plays, receiver out of the backfield) and on defense I played nickelback. Had a knack for the ball and could hit, but not a fundamental tackler by any means. Returned punts/kickoffs on occasion. Wore #28, then #36 and finally #1. When I played in the rec league, my team went undefeated every season but we lost the championship game three years in a row.

My shining moment-ripping the ball out of a receiver's hands and running it back into the end zone for a game winning overtime touchdown. My Leon Lett moment-slipping on the wet endzone grass and falling flat on my ass as the ball came floating toward me with no defender in sight....then doing it again on the very next play!!

Ok, well that's a little about my days on the gridiron. What about the rest of you?

Well smootsmack let me tell you about my short stint playing football.When I was a freshman in high school I weighed about 210, wich is how much I still am but the difference is I was only 5'5 then.Needless to say I wasnt the fastest or strongest on the team but I still played hard.One day at practice A d-line guy fell on my leg sideways and I felt my knee snap.The coach had to put my leg back into place and believe me I thought I was going to rip the face mask off my helmet it hurt so bad!That pretty much ended my football playing days(well organized football at least).My one claim to fame was when I got run over by Jermain Lewis.HE was a senoir on varsity and I was a freshman on jv at Eleanor Roosevelt.

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Believe it or not they actually gave me number 69 and I didnt even request it!

Nice idea Smootsmack, here goes. Back in England in the old days of the British American Football League ('85-'88 I think) I had a couple of friends I'd intorduced to the game a few years earlier who actually took the time to find a team. That team was the Ealing Eagles and my friend Shane played safety. He was a psychotic little sod who just loved hitting people, a really gifted athlete and very intelligent. He picked up the game in no time and after a couple of seasons he suggested that I come and play. They didn't have any slots on D (not that I'm built for anything other than CB) so I was thrown into the WR pool. Turns out that it's not as easy as they make it look on TV, I must have been the worst receiver to ever play. Every down I came on I'd have no clue what I was doing, where I was lining up, nothing. So I'd just line up, sprint off and try to drag a defender with me. I nearly got our star RB killed on a sweep where I should have blocked a LB. I went back to just watching on TV after that season. It gave me a huge appreciation of the game.

Same as you Smoot, I played Rec League football from the time I was 6th to 8th grade then High School JV and varsity one year each. I was a fairly big strong kid but slower than molasses in January. I played offensive guard and def. tackle. Everybody new that, on defense, you couldn't run at No. 65 and that on offense the guy playing opposite me was not going to get any sacks (I didn't give up a sack until my second game varsity year). I was part of several goal line stands and, in my second rec league year, we clinched the division championship on 4th and goal with about minute to go.

Buy my junior year in high school, I was really little to small for line play but too slow to be linebacker or tight end. I had only played offense in my sophomore year and really did not enjoy that as much as defense so I stopped playing.

Played rugby in college - now THAT was my kinda game. "Rugby players never quit - we just eat our dead"

I played from from 8th grade through Varsity. I was never anything special, I just loved football overall and had alot of fun playing it. I didnt start my jr year on varsity and was hurt my senior season, so my Varsity experiance was kinda dampered. The only season I was ever a important part of my team was my JV Season. I wore #84(TE) then #51 ( Dline ) #56 (Center/Dline) and finally #61.

My shining moment was a JV boot play. I was in at center for a kid, who was one of my best friends, that got a concussion. At the time and we pulled the center on the play. When the qb boots around, the center boots out infront of the entire line and swings around to take out whoever was chasing the quarterback. I pulled around and absoultley leveled the kid, bare none the best hit I have ever had in all my years in football. I looked to the sidelines to see the kid I just replaced jumping up and down and going crazy for me as I saw the trainers trying to take care of him. It was really the only thing I can look back at, as somthing special that I myself did. I had some great feelings as a team too. High school football was great, some of the best times of my life.

I played two years of modified ball as we called it, (7th and 8th grade) and two years of JV. I played both ways, starting at center and defensive end. I went to a small high school and most of us played both ways. Back then I went about 6-2, 210 which was pretty big for a kid my age.

One of my favorite memories was in practice actually. It was in 8th grade and we were still trying to sort out who was gonna play what positions, and I really wanted to play DE and I finally got my shot to line up at end. The first play I got to the QB and tipped his pass, the next play it was a pitch to the HB to my side and I met him just as he caught the pitch and just flattened him. At that point the coaches were taking notice, so the coach called a sweep to my side and I shook off the TE and made a diving ankle tackle to bring down the back. Keep in mind this happened on 3 consecutive plays, well, my coach went nuts, he came running up to me, grabbed me by my facemask and screamed "I think we just found our starting DE!". I was on a natural high for the next week for so, LOL.

I didn't play varsity ball unfortunately. Instead I thought working and having a car were more important, looking back now that's one of my biggest regrets, not playing those last two years. If I could go back and do it all over again I would have played all 4 years and busted my tail. I'm not saying I could have gone to some big college and played, but I think I could have had a shot at a smaller sized state school or something. Ahh what could have been.

I had some nice glory days in college playing flag football too. One year we won it all and just steamrolled everyone. Our average score was something like 35-6. I was the smallest guy on our line at 6-3, 250, we had a brickwall for a line it was great. The next year our QB who was incredible graduated so we had to find a new guy. We got back to the championship game but lost, if we had our QB from the year before we definitely would have won two in a row.

Oh yeah my # was 82. Orginally my coach had me pegged for TE, but once I got a shot at DE I stayed there. Funny how I got to play center, one week we had an away game and we had to leave school early to go. The kid who played center couldn't go, his mom wouldn't let him leave early, LOL, so the coaches asked who wants to fill in at center and I was like sure I'll give it a shot.

Unfortunatly our school never had a football team. Being as I'm not exactly built for footabll 5'10 - 6'0 depends on who's measuring and 150lbs now, I was 120 as a Senior. So I was always too small. We played in a flag tourny for school and our team went undefeated till our RB broke one guys nose and another guy got stiff armed in the forehead and got pissed. They then stopped the league.

Very interesting to read about everyone's experience! Keep it coming!

[QUOTE]I had some nice glory days in college playing flag football too. [/QUOTE]

Oh yeah, I forgot about college flag football. That was a lot of fun. I got suspended for a game for picking the quarterback up and driving him to the ground (then ripping the flags off) on a blindside cornerback blitz. I'm only 5'7" and it was probably out of line but dude was mocking my girl's football ability! It was co-ed so she agreed to play, though all she did was run around, if even that.

This is definitely fun learning about everyone's playing days.

The extent of my football playing is 2 Hand Touch (neighborhood ball) and Flag Football in PE. (I played soccer as a kid)

around the time i started filling out for my height (i was about 5'10 in the 8th grade) and not being as closed off and shy, my family and i had to move up to iceland(dad was in the navy.) needless to say they didn't have a football team (even though the different commands had flag football teams) but lucky we got to play flag football during gym. at the time i was about 5'10 and 215 or so and was seen probably a bit as a nerd but after that first game it was so awesome to have everyone wanting me on their team. i was deceptively fast in short bursts and had a big play, td catch or int, each game. the play i remember the most was when i had gone up the field on a slant and the qb of my team looked like he had thrown it up to the other team cuz the only guy nearby where it looked like the pass was coming down was my old best friend. just as it looked like it was gonna fall into his lap, i jumped through the air in front of him and plucked the ball out of the air with one hand and walked into the endzone like that was how it had been drawn up. my friend had this look on his face like, what the hell just happened.

shortly after we came back to the states, i dislocated my knee, which still pops out every once in a while, and since then i've only been able to play catch with my family and friends. if that hadn't knocked my out from playing football, when i slipped a disc in my back last year would have, lol. it was kinda kewl to find out i went to the same highschool plaxico burress had just graduated from the year before.

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Really old thread I'm bumping up here...but with so many new members I thought it'd be cool to learn some more about everyone's football past

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I had a gift early on and it was evident playing with the boys on the sandlot. I never lived in a place with a POP Warner league and I never went to a Middle School that had a team. Sad to say I did not get to play organized football until the 8th grade.

Now I know that some people will say that 8th grade is Middle School, but I beg to differ. 8th grade in the state of Oklahoma is Junior High school (7th, 8th, and 9th grade). The one year that I lived there I went to Tomlinson Junior High School and I played DE on the JV squad. Considering that my body type was of a WR many of you might think that this is odd, well, so did I. Since I had never played organized football I did not fully get the terminology. When we were in offensive practice I thought it was defensive and vice versa. So when they asked for backs I went and practiced with the running backs when I meant to practice with the DB's. When they asked for ends I went to practice with the DE's instead of the Split Ends AKA WR's. Needless to say I was clueless especially when I was asked to line up in a 3 point stance.

My D Line coach put me on the right side in drills and fell in love with my speed off of the edge. He did not let me leave the defensive line after that so I was stuck there the entire time I played there. I racked up 9 sacks in 4 games in a division that primarily ran the ball out of the I formation. I would get murdered against the run though. Don't get me wrong I was a sure tackler, but I would always get knocked back a few feet before I made the stop.

In the middle of the season my step dad got out of the Army and we moved back to MD where once again I went to a middle school with no football team. The following summer we moved again to Virginia. The rest of the story is meant for another day. I will leave you with this. In highschool I played WR/DB and not on the D-line. Playing in Oklahoma at least made me a bit smarter.


Edit: The above post was in the beginning. The following link was near the end.

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The good stuff and the great times were in the middle, yet to be posted.

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I played Maplewood Football for years as a kid here in the DC area, and then played in high school as well. My junior year on varsity I was a DE, but I've got pretty good hands. I got moved to TE my senior year, and I played on teams as well. We went 10-0 which was pretty awesome. TE in our offense didn't catch a ton of passes, mainly a blocker, but I still hauled in 25 grabs or so. Haven't played since, but I have some great memories.

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I won't lie. :D

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Oh wow... Like this thread.

I had a pretty sweet opportunity given to me when I was in high school. I went to St. John's @ Prospect Hall in Frederick (now known as St. John's Catholic Prep....gross) and we actually did not have a football program at all. My freshman and sophomore years were spent, gasp, on the golf team. I did not mind golf, just always felt football was in my blood.

At any rate, We all filled out these surveys on who would play football and suddenly by my junior year we had a team. Once two-a-days started I had no idea what position I would play. They bounced me around 7 different positions and finally settled on linebacker and tight end. Our first season we went 9-1 and got a lot of publicity. It was so much fun winning pretty meaningless games, and getting more press time than the local teams that have been doing it for years and years. I can still remember getting interviewed by the local sports news team and saying something dumb like "I love the smell of football" while all my friends were laughing behind the camera. Good times.

My senior year was just as good, if not better. We didn't win as many games, but the games finally had meaning. We were in a league, and the games mattered. We finished 7-3 I believe, and broke 13 Maryland state passing/receiving records (look them up... I'm sure some of them still hold).

The last game I played out of my mind. I was so pumped up for the crowd, and it was senior night, my last night under those lights... I don't know. Everything just clicked. That game I caught 10 passes for 190 yards and 3 touchdowns and led the team in tackles. It was silly. I ended up playing one year of football at Catholic University, and then transferred out to never play again. Although... I think I'll probably try our for the Skins this season....

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I never played organized for dubious medical reasons. I think my parents were just scared to let me play. I was a little small but I think I would have been a half decent rec league player. I resent my a parent's little for not letting me play. Plus I came from a baseball town so I played that into high school.

Now as far as pickup I have played a ton since about 4th grade. I have no idea why I wasn't allowed to play organized ball where we had pads and rules but it was fine for me to play backyard football where we basically just tried to kill each other.

My best moments mostly came from freshmen year in college. We had a bunch of organized teams based on our dorm halls in the dorm area where I lived. Our floor started the idea and we took on any comers. Most of the teams had decent talent. we went 14-15 deep and every team had at least 5-6 guys who had played varsity in high scool. I played mostly slot and a little half back on offense. On defense I played nickleback, which meant I played every down since teams always ran 3 wides. My best moment came on a corner blitz that I called covering the outside WR on the weak side. I hand signaled(behind my back) our free safety to press the WR and on the snap I took off for the QB totally free. I absolulety destroyed the poor guy who was somewhat bigger than me. I hit him as he went to throw, he never saw it coming and the ball popped up in the air where our RA playing DE caught it returned it for a TD. It was the kind of hit I KNOW the guy remembers. It was one of the stories we talked about in college a lot. Most of our good stories were about freshmen year football, flag football or being drunk.

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Played ever sense I could play all the way through my freshmen year in HS. My freshmen year I played end but it was 99.9% as a blocker and only had one pass come my way and thats the funny part. Finally with a few minutes left in a game the coach called my number to go out for a pass and catch the other team off guard. Well it worked and I took off up the field and was running as fast as I could (thats not very fast) when I see the ball flying my way. I reach out and pull in the pass and I get nailed. All I remember is the guys laughing getting me up a congratulating me on the TD. I then asked who the heck hit me and the guy looked over and said "Dumb a$$, you ran into the goal post".

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Was that before they moved the goal posts back?

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[quote=Mattyk72;544207]Was that before they moved the goal posts back?[/quote]
No I'm not that old but it was about 3 feet out of the end zone and was unpadded. I was just so pumped to finally have a pass come my way I did not see it. I guess that why a missed the naked bear doing the moon walk yesterday.

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I started the first year I was eligible, first grade, no clue what I was doing, getting creamed all of the time. From second through 4th grade I was offensive and defensive lineman of the year each year. Fifth and sixth grade we had moved and I didn't really get to play. Came back and played 7th grade, mostly on line again but linebacker as well, unfortunately after being gone 2 years I was a lil rusty at the beginning and didn't get a chance to start, though looking back I definitely should've at least after the first game or two.

Had a really messed up home and couldn't play in HS at all, after showing up to practice everyday of 8th grade with a broken ankle, determined to learn the new offense. Oh well.

I did get to wrestle in HS though and was all-state

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[quote=RobH4413;544187]Oh wow... Like this thread.

I had a pretty sweet opportunity given to me when I was in high school. I went to St. John's @ Prospect Hall in Frederick (now known as St. John's Catholic Prep....gross) and we actually did not have a football program at all. My freshman and sophomore years were spent, gasp, on the golf team. I did not mind golf, just always felt football was in my blood.

At any rate, We all filled out these surveys on who would play football and suddenly by my junior year we had a team. Once two-a-days started I had no idea what position I would play. They bounced me around 7 different positions and finally settled on linebacker and tight end. Our first season we went 9-1 and got a lot of publicity. It was so much fun winning pretty meaningless games, and getting more press time than the local teams that have been doing it for years and years. I can still remember getting interviewed by the local sports news team and saying something dumb like "I love the smell of football" while all my friends were laughing behind the camera. Good times.

My senior year was just as good, if not better. We didn't win as many games, but the games finally had meaning. We were in a league, and the games mattered. We finished 7-3 I believe, and broke 13 Maryland state passing/receiving records (look them up... I'm sure some of them still hold).

The last game I played out of my mind. I was so pumped up for the crowd, and it was senior night, my last night under those lights... I don't know. Everything just clicked. That game I caught 10 passes for 190 yards and 3 touchdowns and led the team in tackles. It was silly. I ended up playing one year of football at Catholic University, and then transferred out to never play again. Although... I think I'll probably try our for the Skins this season....[/quote]

Nice story RobH...especially the part about your last game.

My football days were the epitome of disappointment LOL. Basically I "looked" like the super athletic type and got a lot of my strength young. Played RB/FB and MLB through grade school. Started to get a lot of attention from high school coaches. Freshmen year was same story. Sophomore year I started pulling muscles like crazy...hammy, groin, quad and missed weeks and weeks. That lasted all the way through HS...I mean every freakin season. Never got enough reps to really become a student of the game and basically was just good for a big hit here and there. HS coaches were obviously irritated/pissed that I couldn't contribute while I benched more than all but one of our lineman (about 260 then), squatted way more than that when healthy and overall just had a ton of strength. It got to the point I was bitter and started taking it out on some the smart-asses during practice...just pummeled guys who I thought had it coming.

A few years after HS graduation one of my classmates dad's made the comment I was well known as the hardest hitter on the team...during practice LOL. On gameday I was a dud.

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[quote=RobH4413;544187]Oh wow... Like this thread.

I had a pretty sweet opportunity given to me when I was in high school. I went to St. John's @ Prospect Hall in Frederick (now known as St. John's Catholic Prep....gross) and we actually did not have a football program at all. My freshman and sophomore years were spent, gasp, on the golf team. I did not mind golf, just always felt football was in my blood.

At any rate, We all filled out these surveys on who would play football and suddenly by my junior year we had a team. Once two-a-days started I had no idea what position I would play. They bounced me around 7 different positions and finally settled on linebacker and tight end. Our first season we went 9-1 and got a lot of publicity. It was so much fun winning pretty meaningless games, and getting more press time than the local teams that have been doing it for years and years. I can still remember getting interviewed by the local sports news team and saying something dumb like "I love the smell of football" while all my friends were laughing behind the camera. Good times.

My senior year was just as good, if not better. We didn't win as many games, but the games finally had meaning. We were in a league, and the games mattered. We finished 7-3 I believe, and broke 13 Maryland state passing/receiving records (look them up... I'm sure some of them still hold).

The last game I played out of my mind. I was so pumped up for the crowd, and it was senior night, my last night under those lights... I don't know. Everything just clicked. That game I caught 10 passes for 190 yards and 3 touchdowns and led the team in tackles. It was silly. I ended up playing one year of football at Catholic University, and then transferred out to never play again. Although... I think I'll probably try our for the Skins this season....[/quote]

Rob, any idea where you can find the Maryland high school state records online? My boy Marcus Mason (went to my alma mater Georgetown Prep, however I was a bit older and never played with him) holds several of the rushing records and I'd love to see the record book. I'm sure you'd be in there too. Anyway, if you've got a link, or if anyone does, post it!

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I think in the past I've mentioned another one of my crowning moments...getting leveled by Shawn Springs in a high school scrimmage game. Never saw him coming.

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[quote=GMScud;544334]Rob, any idea where you can find the Maryland high school state records online? My boy Marcus Mason (went to my alma mater Georgetown Prep, however I was a bit older and never played with him) holds several of the rushing records and I'd love to see the record book. I'm sure you'd be in there too. Anyway, if you've got a link, or if anyone does, post it![/quote]
here, but it looks like it ends around 2003...
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Played TE in HS Soph & Senior years. Nothing to write home about. In the AF in Japan QB'd our base team for two years, we won the Kanto Plain championship in '87. In '88 we scrimmaged one Japanese team, surprisingly big, but they didn't understand the game. Threw two passes, both for TDs (I audibled to those plays) and got yanked by the coach. He didn't want to embarrass them. He was right, pretty dumb move by me, I was 21 and pretty full of myself.

Played 8-man full contact at Ft. Meade in '89, lost in championship in 6 inches of snow on Thanksgiving. After getting out of the AF, played a bunch of flag in Fairfax County, won in '96. Played semi-pro for a year with the Herndon Monarchs, got tired of coming to practice with 20 guys and 50 show up on game day who didn't know what the F was going on.

Moved to VA Beach and played flag, went to the state tournament a few years. Moved to OL when I couldn't make throws I used to. Won the City championship in '03 and retired with that and an OL MVP award.

Got more involved in coaching youth football with my son's team. We took a team from an area that was previously a joke (0 for about 3 seasons) and went to the City 125lb B Division championship and lost. That was a really good year and team. Next year my son was QB and played well, we were .500, but great year to see my son play well and have fun. QB coach at a local high school for JV for a couple of years and helped call the offense, we were 12 - 0 (JV only plays 6 games per year). Coached at Landstown (post-Percy Harvin) for a year RB coach (keep an eye out for Sterling Phifer - RB going to BC this fall) and JV HC, but family / business issues have crept up and kept me out of coaching last year and probably will this year too. Hopefully I'll get back into it within another year or two.

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I had a bit of a diva moment (on more than one occasion actually) during a playoff game in 7th grade.

I was getting no touches on offense. I was basically running around as a decoy the whole game (no carries, no receptions, nothing).

Meanwhile, one of my teammates-who I always thought was a bit too arrogant-had seven...7...touchdowns. To his credit, he was dynamite that game. Just ridiculous.

Anyhow, in spite of his 7 TDs the game still went in OT tied at 49. He had returned a punt to tie the game at 49 late in the 4th quarter and everyone was jumping up and down excited...but not me.

I was pissed. Then I started yelling at my teammates. Remember I was only like 12 years old. "Hey, there are other people on this team too! Why don't we celebrate some of the damn blocking" Then when we won the coin toss and got the ball to start OT, the first thing I said in the huddle "I'm going to be in the end zone, if you want to win this game throw me the ball" and then I just left the huddle. And the QB did...and we won!

I had a bit of a flair for the dramatic in some of the sports I played as a kid (hockey, football, basketball). I could go an entire game without doing jack shit, and suddenly hit the 3 pointer, score the goal, or catch the TD or whatever to win the game. So my buddies put up with my antics because of that. But I could be a real pain if/when I started sulking.

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[quote=SmootSmack;544543]Then when we won the coin toss and got the ball to start OT, the first thing I said in the huddle "I'm going to be in the end zone, if you want to win this game throw me the ball" and then I just left the huddle. And the QB did...and we won![/quote]
Didn't you just move to Buffalo LOL

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[quote=Slingin Sammy 33;544548]Didn't you just move to Buffalo LOL[/quote]

LOL...I didn't have 25 million reasons back in those days though

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I Started playing organized football when I was 5 years old and played through my Senior year. I started at MLB for the mighty Cedar Cliff Colts, the same school that produced future NFL players Kyle Brady and Coy Wire. My shining moment in football was my Sophmore year when I made the final tackle to complete a goal line stand. Oh, I forgot to mention, the runningback that I tackled was none other than LeSean "Shady" McCoy, who was a Senior for Bishop McDevitt High School at the time.

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Played QB at Gaithersburg HS from 86-88 and played QB all through middle school and pee wee. I'm proud to say I played against Ritchie Anderson. Thank god we both played offense cause he was simply unstopable and could not be tackled. I think he ran for like 270 yards against us but we still won the game and I still have the article from Gaithersburg Gazette in my scrapbook. He played across town at Sherwood HS.

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[quote=SmootSmack;544349]I think in the past I've mentioned another one of my crowning moments...getting leveled by Shawn Springs in a high school scrimmage game. Never saw him coming.[/quote]

Where did you play?

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[quote=skinsfan69;545493]Where did you play?[/quote]

Churchill, early 90s, played one preseason really then realized my talents were best utilized on the baseball field, basketball court, and gym (floor hockey)

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^^ i went to churchill, graduated in '96.

i was a stud hockey player and i remember after the mont co upper championship game the churchill coach (who also coached a team in my league) grabbed me as i was coming off the ice and said he likes my game and wants me to play for him. mid summer i get a call from the coach, i tell him my grades dont allow me to play. sad times man, all my buddies (who i doubled their point totals every season) were on the team.

then coach higgins saw me score a behind the back goal in lacrosse, asked why i didnt play for churchill and same response . . "grades man".

so in short, grade requirements didnt allow me to play school organized sports in high school, but i did private leagues and camps at st albans which allowed me to be a 2 year co-captain and national collegic lacrosse league starting midfielder allstar in 2000!!! yeah baby!! and i did score 4 goals against duquense to seal a revenge win in a heated rivalry!!!

sorry i know this is suposed to be about HS football but im 30 now, these are my "al bundy" glory days!! . . i also shot a 78 in golf, so watch out.

man i wish i was young enough to play organized sports again. at least i got pick up ball in the city and teh strippers (not stripers) are running hard.

go skins!!

wait, is their a difference in how you spell strippers (rockfish) vs strippers (lady kind)?

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i was/am a long distance runner. When i was 16, i ran a 4:32 mile. When i was 19, i could run a 5k(3.1 miles) in just under 17 minutes. I played baseball other than that, and constantly broke bones. i broke my nose, hand, wrist, and thumb playing. My nose had to have plastic surgery to fix(15 pieces of bone).

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[quote=SmootSmack;545510]Churchill, early 90s, played one preseason really then realized my talents were best utilized on the baseball field, basketball court, and gym (floor hockey)[/quote]

i remember playing against jack kemp's son who was the qb on their 87 team.

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[quote=skinsfan69;545796]i remember playing against jack kemp's son who was the qb on their 87 team.[/quote]

Jimmy Kemp. He was a bit before my time. My generation was the Dhani Jones years.

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Went to high school in Lexington. Played little league football until freshman year of high school where we fielded a team of 14 players. Obviously, most players went both ways (har har) until two people in our fourth game of the season broke their collar bones. On the way to that fourth game, I was working on my fourth straight 20+ tackle game. I played nose tackle and tight end and never was the strongest kid, just very quick off the ball.

They moved the rest of the freshman team up to JV where we all basically sat the bench the rest of the season since the JV team had their starters already. 10th grade, I was moved to OG, since the other tight end was this giant guy who couldn't catch or run fast (yes, I'm still bitter) but was just big. 11th grade, I started at OG every game and 12th grade I missed all the offseason workouts because I met my girlfriend who is now my wife and decided against it.

Sure, I sat the bench that year, but who am I married to now bitches? Well, I guess you could consider me married to football too. ;)

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About to resurrect my playing days. Big game after work next week. Gotta get ready

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I actually think I got to scrimage against Randy Thomas's high school alma-matter during my junior year in 2001. East Point Tri-Cities.