How many of you played football?

[john van brocklin]

UDFA with who?!

Tell us!!!

 

[Runwildboys]

In high school I was 1st sting center and 2nd string quarterback. Let me just say it's a whole lot easier to play center than it is to play quarterback.

Especially if you're built like a center, I imagine!

 

[Runwildboys]

Started in YMCA 6 man to 11 man in Midland Tx.
Then played elementary through varsity.

WR through elementary then TE all through HS.

Fun times. Did anyone one else wear Legs pantyhose in the winter to keep warm? Lol

You mean anyone besides you and Joe Namath?

 

[Runwildboys]

I also boxed for close to 4 years

Someone should've rung the damn bell, so you could go home!

 

[Runwildboys]

I started playing backyard football at an early age. It was before my first organized tackle football, which was 5th grade in Amarillo. We actually went to the state championship that year, but lost. Their RB was so big he had to bring his birth certificate to all his games.

I played LB and that big dude beat me up ALL game long. He was basically unstoppable for 5th grade kids, haha.

Then, I played all the way through high school, starting at LB/S my junior and senior years. I also played some TE but was mainly a blocker and my focus, like always, was much more on defense.

I got a scholarship to a local junior college (by then in Mississippi) and played mostly safety and a little situational LB for those two years. It was so fun but unfortunately, that was about as far as my talent could take me. I wasn’t that big but I was known as the hitter in the secondary.

I was working in a gym then and one of the Southern Miss defensive coaches worked out there. He kept trying to get me to try to walk on there (I had an academic scholarship at the school), which I almost did but by then I was pretty deep into my schoolwork and I was having migraines from some previous concussions, so my girlfriend at the time talked me out of it.

Thus ended my organized football days, which was crushing.

for years I played intramural flag football, which kind of scratched the itch… but it was the contact that I loved. Anyway, we had a good team (the QB had been a QB at Ole Miss) and we actually won the tournament for the southeast US and went to the national. We ended up losing to the team that won it all. They had a coach and wore real football uniforms just without the pads, haha. They were serious.

All through those years, anytime I could get a backyard tackle game together, I would.

Once, a bunch of us had gone to a field at USM to get a game up and there was another big group there that we didn’t know. I said we should let 11 play against 11 from each group and play. They knew a challenge when they heard one so they said sure. It was one of the most brutal games I’ve ever played in. People were falling out left and right. My buddy was playing barefooted and got his entire big toenail pulled off.

I got the worst concussion that I ever had in that game. I got one and kept playing and then had the back of my head slap the ground and it was lights out. It was super fun though and is one of my best backyard football memories… what I can remember if it.

If I could get up a game right now, I’d probably do it. I love, love, love playing football.

All I could think of was that you were playing the prison team in that 11 on 11 game. lol

 

[john van brocklin]

I also boxed for close to 4 years

That explains a few things

 

[nalam]

Played a few sports in the school years, but not foot ball , soccer , basket ball , track, bit of boxing too.

Was assistant def coach for my son’s peewee football team , LOL.

 

[Zman5]

Peewee through 2 years of college. Blew out both of my knees and broke my lower leg which ended my football dreams.

 

[Rayman70]

I played through 91 for the San Angelo Central Bobcats under Dan Gandy. Shea Morenz was our QB who later went on to play for UT. We went 10-3-1 in 91 and lost to Killeen in the State Semi. Morenz was the hot name, but I played S on a defense that held 10 opponents to 16 points or less and we had 4 shutouts in a row. My father played for the same school and was running back for the 1966 State Championship team under coach Emory Bellard who's a Texas legend.

Thats close to me. I am about 2 hours north of SAN ANGELO

 

[Vtwin]

I have now started figuring out in my early 20’s that I was raised in a pretty strange situation by some strange people lol

Good for you man. Some people never figure it out. Now you can use it to your advantage. You have a perspective that most can never have.

 

[terra]

You are older. At least you had a face mask or you probably still wouldn’t be here.

I don't know; Charley Trippi just died at 100 and he played when you did not eve have to wear a leather cover

 

[nobody]

I played street football through grade school high school. I played Fullback and Rover in Middle school. I didn't even try to play for my High School. I focused more on my academics.

 

[Cboyfan4ever]

Pop Warner,4 yrs HS, 2 yrs. College, Coached 8 yrs.

 

[Captain-Crash]

@Cowpolk trained with mister Miyagi and was Walker Texas Ranger side kick.

 

[Bing]

Yes back when the earth was flat. It was a much more interesting game back then because you not only had to worry about the other team but dinosaurs often stormed the field and ate your teammates.

 

[Runwildboys]

Yes back when the earth was flat. It was a much more interesting game back then because you not only had to worry about the other team but dinosaurs often stormed the field and ate your teammates.

And the random lava bursts from the ground made crowd noise seem like nothing!

 

[mahoneybill]

Re pro players Vince Papale Eagles walk on who later was the subject of the movie Invincible was a competitor in our MAC conference .

Good guy skilled in multiple field events.

 

[Clove]

I started playing at private school as a WR at age 7, then middle school, then high school, semi pro, and in flag ball leagues after that. I was always a receiver. Played basketball too, and ran track, the mile and never lost a mile race. Now, I'm just an older man with ZERO athleticism, I hope to get some of it back in the next few years.

 

[Pantone282C]

I played tailback on our junior and varsity team. I gave it up, after our coach kept telling another running back on our offense to get up after he went down with a double break in his mangled leg. He laid on the ground with his leg looking like a "Z" where it should have been straight. Coach told him three times, to "get up, you're not hurt." He even kept saying it, while everyone on the team kept telling him it was a double break. He stood directly over him, looking down and obviously, saw it. There was no way not to. Yet, he kept telling him to get up!

That was the end of high school football for me. I had done especially well in track and still continued doing so afterward. Even then, he saddled me with a D- in physical education, as payback for bowing out of football. To this day, I still get upset, thinking about that incident happening some 55 years ago. Now, I pray, asking God to help me forgive and forget. I've forgiven him somewhat, I guess, but surely haven't forgotten.

Really harsh experience. That kind of stuff can leave a mark on the psyche. Sorry to see you had to experience that. It's a wonder he wasn't confronted by the injured kid's parents.

 

[Pantone282C]

Sorry to see a great career end like that

Is that really Michael Irvin?!