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I think most of us here have played sports at one time or another and some may still be involved. So lets hear about the sports you played and the memories you have.

Football: I went out for JV football my 8th grade year but had a disagreement with the coach and elected to not play. I wanted to play quarterback and he wanted me to play line. This continued throughout my high school career so I continued to boycott organized football.

It was not the end of my storied football past though. From 1982-1984 I was the best pre-class and lunchtime sandlot QB in the entire county, possibly the state and for those who saw me play some might say the world.

After high school I would go on to coach youth football for the next 20 years and along the way coach future professional players (albeit very short lived careers) Michael Nattiel and Keith Kelsey. During those years I had many innovative offensive contributions to the game, none more important at least in this area than the Wally Double.

Baseball: I played 3 years of varsity baseball at 3rd base and while you may find this an exaggeration I wrapped up my high school career with batting average of 1000 I was 3-3 in 3 pinch hitting appearances. Now some of you might think I wasted 3 years to have only seen action 3 times in all that time but I was dedicated to perfecting my ability.

After high school I spent the next 20 years coaching youth baseball and twice made an appearance in the state tournament.

I also spent a number of years playing softball for various rec leagues. I never made it on the big time leagues simply because I wasnt a long ball hitter and there enough calling for a slow-pitch contact hitter with my limited speed and unlimited size.

Basketball: Never gave basketball a go during my high school days but there is a good chance that I was one of the best H.O.R.S.E. players at Newberry High. I spent the next 20 years coaching in the youth leagues. Won 10 championships over that time between the 11-12 and 13-14 age groups. Gave AAU a go but at that level you tend to get kids so spread out that practices are difficult and you are basically just managing a line-up on gamedays.
 
I have so much sports history, I would have to break it into installments. None of it was at any kind of high level - but I was one active kid.

I will start with my most triumphant.

Soccer - this is perhaps odd because I pretty much can't stand soccer now but I played for ~10 years and excelled. The first couple years I played various positions with very ordinary results - then someone decided to stick me in goal. Over the next 8 years, every team I played goalie for made it to the league's championship game and we won a lot of them. I had a helluva line-up of soccer trophies on the old family trophy case.

Somewhere around the age of 16 I started to notice how very hard some of the kids were starting to kick the ball. Remarkably hard. Plus I was getting very interested in drugs by then so that was the end of soccer for me.
 
wal66
BG, I can see that dogged determination in you it takes to be a wrestler to this day.
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Funny thing about that, I was kinda touted by various HS for wrestling. True story was I was forced by my folks to go to a Jesuit HS on account of deviant behavior prior to that. As a result, I went from the shit to just an average Joe. Surprisingly enough Wally, I was the toast of the town ahletically until about the age of 13.....that is no joke...
 
durito
Whats the wally double?
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It's a TRUE double reverse pass. The key parts are the fact the ball ends up back to the quarterback and the intricate routes being ran. In 20 years this play was only ever ran successfully 4 times, successfully mean it scored a game deciding touchdown but it was a favorite play amongst every kid to ever play for me.

Quarterback pitches to halfback.
Fullback picks off defensive end.
Halfback reverses to wideout then releases down field.
Wideout reverses back to quarterback then picks off trailing defensive end.
Quarterback now has 2 tightends, a fullback, and a halfback streaking towards the endzone to choose from.
 
I only played one organized school sport before I became an anti-social teen rebel and said screw all this, and that was

Basketball - I made the team in grade 9. I was a year younger than everyone and the plan was for me to learn and develop while mainly being a benchwarmer for a year, because I would still be young enough to be on the Junior team (or whatever the level was called) the following year. Not that I was without any skillz. I had a basketball hoop at home my whole childhood and I could shoot. But my ideas about strategy and playmaking were pretty vague. Anyway I broke my leg in a skiing accident halfway through the season and couldn't play any more and never got back to it.

Skiing - see above
 
Volleyball I played a lot of beach and grass volleyball tournaments and at my peak I was ranked 178th in the state of New Jersey. I won an indoor championship as captain and several beach volleyball tournaments. The highlight I would say wasn't even close to when my I was at my peak as a player and wasn't even an official game. It was a pickup game. Me and my good buddy were playing these 2 very highly rated players and they were owning the court and being total snobby pricks to everyone. They laughed when we took the court. We didn't laugh after we beat them and they had to leave the court. That was the fucking best.
 
was considered the great white hope of HS basketball to make a varsity HS team in my city.
only a handful of white players have made varsity BBall at public schools here. My city was a hot bed of BBall talent in the 90s... during my HS career there was about 6 or 7 All American players in the city.
I was known as white Mike or shake n bake to the brothers. never had the commitment in the weight room or the defensive skills to make it at the next level. I was scrawny...

and found out after going to Dave Kriders All American camp in Cincy that I could'nt hang at the next level.
some pros I've played agaisnt in HS,
Ray Allen ( who lit our team up for about 50 pts in a Xmas tourny)
Matt Harpring ( played them in the final 4 of state at Georgia Tech and lost my sophmore yr)
Shareef Abur Rahim ( although he had another name in HS)
Vonteego Cummins ( short NBA career)
Jumain Jones ( a 6-8 beast in HS)
and several others that had short NBA careers
 
I thought I was a good hockey player till I got cut in college..

Then I started playing rugby where one of my teammates played a game after taking acid.

Another time I walked in on a rugby teammate fucking a girl doggy style, with dip in his mouth and a spit cup on the chicks back.

Man I had a lot of fun playing rugby. Always a keg after every game.

I once punched the other teams coach in the face when he walked on our bench in the middle of a game.
 
JV/V baseball

JV/V basketball (rode the pine on Varsity, miracle for a white kid to be on Varsity)

JV/V track and field. Ran against the New York State champ in a 4 X 100. Guy went by me like I was running backwards.

Varsity Indoor Volleyball


Got very into playing guitar/production at the end of high school so I (to my surprise) didn't go on to play college baseball
 
This thread is making me remember all the organized sports I did. At different times I was in hockey (ice, ring and cosom), soccer, tennis, baseball, softball, basketball, flag football, bowling, swimming, diving, water polo, track (specialized in long distances), field (specialized in triple jump - WTF?), cycling, golf, lacrosse.

That was all organized teams/lessons/whatever. I'm probably forgetting some.

That's not counting all the farting around sports around the neighbourhood. We were so active we ran out of regular sports and had to make up games. We played tennis hockey which was on a grass field with hockey nets and tennis rackets and a tennis ball. One time we organized an actual neighbourhood Olympics that went on for weeks and must have had 25 events.

I guess we were pretty hyper little kids.
 
After being friends with Bigal for like 18 months, and losing in 300 or so straight fooseball matches, I finally beat her in the championship of a big Fooseball 32 person bracket tourney party at her old apartment.

She is/WAS an amazing foosebal player
 
Played competitive Hockey (ages 6 - 23), Football, Baseball and Soccer when I was a teenager. Excelled at Hockey and Soccer. Looking back at it, baseball was just too frigging boring and football was a side sport for me as it often interferred with Hockey and Soccer.
 
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