Tell Us About Your Playing Days

MTK · 05-02-2004, 09:16 PM

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.

SmootSmack · 05-02-2004, 09:56 PM

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I had some nice glory days in college playing flag football too.

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.

Cush · 05-02-2004, 09:58 PM

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

skinsfanthru&thru · 05-03-2004, 12:01 AM

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.

05-02-2004, 09:16 PM	#1
MTK Hail Raiser Join Date: Feb 2004 Age: 53 Posts: 100,050	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. Last edited by MTK; 05-02-2004 at 09:20 PM.

05-03-2004, 12:01 AM	#4
skinsfanthru&thru Playmaker Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Richmond, VA Age: 45 Posts: 3,815	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. Last edited by skinsfanthru&thru; 05-03-2004 at 12:09 AM.

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05-02-2004, 09:58 PM	#3
Cush Impact Rookie Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Northern Virginia Age: 49 Posts: 963	The extent of my football playing is 2 Hand Touch (neighborhood ball) and Flag Football in PE. (I played soccer as a kid)

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