How many of you played football?

[RonnieT24]

Awesome bubba. You have always been one of my faves and this just cements it.

LOL back at ya bro.. It was a great experience for a downhome country boy from Orlando.. though full disclosure I didn't fully appreciate it while I was going to school there.. Way too damn cold up there in Mass and way too many snooty rich kids for my tastes. But there were also a good number of kids like myself who got scholarships and financial aid otherwise wouldn't have been able to dream of going to school there. I hung out with those kids!! The downside to that is the rich kids with the CEO, senator, ambassador dads had a lot better prospects for jobs upon graduation. A lot of those guys went right to work at high level positions right after college.. I had to kind of start out at the bottom of the computer biz and work my way up. A lot more satisfying but I made a lot less money than them for the first 15-20 years of my career.

 

[calico]

4th grade to varsity.

 

[RonnieT24]

Like most, started out with neighborhood sandlot smashmouth. Every kid in the neighborhood broke a bone at one time or another.

Junior high school I played RB for a short bit, then corner and outside LB on defense.

High school through sophomore year played mostly bench and outside linebacker. I was on the smaller side, but I was fast and not afraid to tackle. I remember I took a RB head-on one time and the guy put the hurt on me. The mouth guards were attached to the helmets back in those days and that RB tried to take my head off. I thought all my teeth got pulled loose on that play, but I parked him in the turf just like me. Anyway, as time passed, I did not get to play as much due to my size, so I quit football and joined the party crowd.

Goodtimes.

LOL.. Brother I completely empathize with you here. I was 5'5" 148 pounds my senior year in high school.. I played running back and receiver my junior and senior year in high school and college. I played corner and safety in 10th grade and both ways in 9th grade and Pop Warner. I gave up defense to focus on offense after 10th grade after I dislocated a shoulder trying to tackle a 210 pound running back when I was about 5'3" 125 pounds. I had no fear so I threw my body into that dude with everything I had.. and bounced right off and had to come off the field because my shoulder and arm was hanging off me like I was Frankenstein's monster. The coach had to pop it back in. At that moment I realized that I was much better suited to be the chased than the chaser.. I was small, fast and quick so I never had to take a big hit ever again.

 

[Big D]

Pop warner, actually YAFL. ..
and a whole bunch of this

 

[Shane612]

I played in middle school and a couple of years of HS football in the late 70s.
I played corner...even started three games at receiver in HS.
Also played HS golf.

 

[Shane612]

Played HS, College and was a UDFA in the pros, played MLB and Safely
Thus MLB53

Which college?

 

[Corso]

LOL back at ya bro.. It was a great experience for a downhome country boy from Orlando.. though full disclosure I didn't fully appreciate it while I was going to school there.. Way too damn cold up there in Mass and way too many snooty rich kids for my tastes. But there were also a good number of kids like myself who got scholarships and financial aid otherwise wouldn't have been able to dream of going to school there. I hung out with those kids!! The downside to that is the rich kids with the CEO, senator, ambassador dads had a lot better prospects for jobs upon graduation. A lot of those guys went right to work at high level positions right after college.. I had to kind of start out at the bottom of the computer biz and work my way up. A lot more satisfying but I made a lot less money than them for the first 15-20 years of my career.

I made a ton of unconventional money doing an unconventional career.
Now I decided to change course because writing for the entertainment industry sucks (and isn't paying for a guy like me).

I could retire. Wife's not ready though.
And here I sit: Bored.

So now I'm taking coding bootcamp classes.
Because I wanna. I'm not young, but I'm not old either.
@Reality has been a tremendous help and a voice of reason along this new journey and honestly? I feel reinvigorated.

I might hit you up on some advice along my way into this new chapter of my life.

 

[starfan1]

What's his name? I might know him.

Steve Nehrt

 

[BHendri5]

I am curious and mods feel free to move it or delete it. I think we have varying levels of fans here how many of you actually football and to what level . I’ll start
I played freshman year ( bench warmer) I was small in high school it wasn’t for me I was more into bball and I grew a lot from 11 grade to my military years.

i officiated every level from pee wee to Friday night lights. Next if you wish

I am curious as to why you want to know. I played From middle school starting FS/Rover and WB, starting High School RB and WB as we ran the wing T offense. SCholarship for football and track they combined, but for various reasons I left college on of my boneheaded life moves, thought I could go and walk on in Nebraska or Notre Dame, felt that I was better than the small college I was at, but once I got home and told my mother what my plan was she reminded me that she didn't have money to pay for me to even travel to either of those places, so she got me a job at the factory where she was employed I did that for 8 months. Joined thr Air Force played some high level contact flag while in the military retired now I coach Track

 

[Rockport]

I am curious and mods feel free to move it or delete it. I think we have varying levels of fans here how many of you actually football and to what level . I’ll start
I played freshman year ( bench warmer) I was small in high school it wasn’t for me I was more into bball and I grew a lot from 11 grade to my military years.

i officiated every level from pee wee to Friday night lights. Next if you wish

I never played. My sport was baseball. Played it all through school then intramural softball while in the military.

 

[RonnieT24]

Pop warner, actually YAFL. ..
and a whole bunch of this

This reminds me that I should be a billionaire today .....

Why?

I'm glad you asked..

During the summer after senior year I took a computer systems class in order to try and land a better job.. It was a great course where I learned assembly language programming and machine language and other computer architecture. The course concluded with a programming project. For mine I chose to create drumroll please.. ..

a computer football game..

Now this was 1982 and fancy graphics had yet to proliferate so I could only use graphics that moved X's and O's around. But I wrote a program that would let one player enter what defense he wanted to be in and then the other player enter what offensive play he wanted to run. It would then execute that play on the screen. When I demonstrated it to my GA ( grad assistant) his eyes lit up in a way I had never seen in a teacher.. He gave me a B on the project..

A couple of years later a company came out with an arcade game that looked a LOT like my program. Even the play names and defense names were almost identical to what I had called mine. I did a little digging and found that the GA worked for that company. That company eventually became one of the big computer game developers. I can't recall which one, but it was one of the big ones. I suspect my code got pirated into damn near every computer football game in the world in the 80's. I say that because the guys developing these game didn't play no damn football! So they aint know enough about the game to develop a computer version.. So I think they stole mine!!! Bastids!!! LOL!

 

[shabazz]

Played football and ice hockey all the way up to high school. Was recruited to a prep high school in NJ to play hockey and dropped football at that point. Studies alway came first in my family so at the high school level had to go with just one sport to keep priorities in check. Both are great sports……wish I had learned to play golf though….never followed through with that

 

[starfan1]

I am curious as to why you want to know. I played From middle school starting FS/Rover and WB, starting High School RB and WB as we ran the wing T offense. SCholarship for football and track they combined, but for various reasons I left college on of my boneheaded life moves, thought I could go and walk on in Nebraska or Notre Dame, felt that I was better than the small college I was at, but once I got home and told my mother what my plan was she reminded me that she didn't have money to pay for me to even travel to either of those places, so she got me a job at the factory where she was employed I did that for 8 months. Joined thr Air Force played some high level contact flag while in the military retired now I coach Track

Just curious plus it’s a good hearted convo vs some of the other threads on front page

 

[starfan1]

Pop warner, actually YAFL. ..
and a whole bunch of this

Man electric football was fun. Couldn’t get them things to go the way I wanted them too

 

[Thomas82]

Robert Mathis (Colts) was my teammate in college and we played against DeMarcus Ware and Osi Umenyiora.

 

[RonnieT24]

Robert Mathis (Colts) was my teammate in college and we played against DeMarcus Ware and Osi Umenyiora.

OMG!!! I hope you didn't play offense when you faced Troy. I played against Nate and Tim Newton twice in high school. Their d-line had four absolute studs on it.. Nate went to FAMU, Tim went to Florida. The other two guys also went D1.. one went to Kansas but I forget where the 4th guy went but it was a D1 school. I was glad to have played receiver in those games..

 

[BHendri5]

wasn't able to get an electric football set

 

[ShortRound]

I played in middle school and a little freshman year. I was awful, I ran track mostly.

 

[Deep_South]

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.

 

[Dre11]

Played peewee through HS and 12 years of semi pro. Been coaching for over 20 years. Peewee, HS,Semi pro