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Post by bigdog2003 on Jan 8, 2009 11:17:54 GMT -6
What is your greatest memory of your playing days?
Mine would have to be from my seventh grade year when we went undefeated and won the conference. It was the first time that a seventh grade team had done that in school history. The best part was the last game. It was a home game and we had worn white jerseys for all of our games. Well the other team shows up in white jerseys and we have to change. Since the eight grade was wearing our schools home jerseys, we got a suprise. The varsity coach told our coach that we could wear their home jerseys since they had an away game the next night. Man, we looked like what we were, a bunch of kids with varsity football jerseys on. We thought that we were the stuff because of those jerseys. Man that seems like forever ago, and it was only in 97. It made being a part of this years undefeated seventh grade team as a coach really mean something.
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Post by chadp56 on Jan 8, 2009 11:23:28 GMT -6
The 28 times we rang our victory bell in high school.
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Post by mariner42 on Jan 8, 2009 11:29:32 GMT -6
Having the offense come to the line on their first offensive play and the QB, G, and FB all point me out. It's nice knowing the bad guys had to plan around you.
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Post by CoachMikeJudy on Jan 8, 2009 11:49:10 GMT -6
Last regular season game as a senior in college:
For the conference championship and 1st NCAA playoff berth in school history...
We're the #3 offense in the country playing the #1 defense in the country...same team beat us the year before with a 50yd FG at the buzzer.
Game tied, they get a chance to win with a 45+yd FG at the buzzer- I can't watch...listen for the crowd reaction...THEY GO NUTS - we block it...
Game goes to 2OT- We had just come off after kicking a field goal to go up.
Defense holds them to FG try- same kid blocks it AGAIN! Our entire stadium goes ape-$hit...best part is the camera guy left the film rolling and came sprinting out of the stands to celebrate. The craziness was caught on camera.
I smile everytime I think about it and that was 8 years ago...it was a great way to go out
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Post by davecisar on Jan 8, 2009 11:52:33 GMT -6
Scoring the winning TD flipping into the endzone runing over thier best defender on a 11 yard run and catch with 1:06 left to go to win the homecoming HS game Senior year.
Undefeated season in youth football with great kids and coaches after playing for a disaster team/coach the previous year.
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Post by senatorblutarsky on Jan 8, 2009 12:09:12 GMT -6
HS- Senior year- we lost the game 18-14 to the #1 ranked team (we had 1 win my first 3 years) in the last minute of the game on a 80+ yard run. I ended up with a concussion (diagnosed after the game... happened in the 3rd qr). I played every snap. Best game I ever played- it was the game film I sent out to colleges. I was upset- and exhausted... but I was satisfied that our team did everything we could do to win... and that game propelled us to a decent season.
Coll- We won 17-14 on a late FG. They had beaten us the year before 45-7. Our FG team had been shaky at best up to that point (I was the LS).
On the last play of the game- we punted and they rushed all 11. I ran down, covered the punt and picked it up... kind of jogging/skipping toward their goalline. It was surreal- no one seemed to be around me celebrating. I stopped and looked back--- there was a bench clearing brawl at midfield.
One of my good friends (who is now a college coach) set it off (which I learned only after seeing the film). The very long bus ride back home (9 hours or so) was a blast.
Again, another game that was the start of better things for the rest of the season.
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Post by knighter on Jan 8, 2009 12:15:44 GMT -6
HS- 1st round playoff game vs. our rival school senior year...76 yard TD run to tie it, fumble recovery with 56 yard return to the 5 to ice it. also had 6 sacks and 3 tackles for loss
Coll- running out the big garage door in the UNI Dome for the first time and making the first tackle of the season on the opening kickoff (as a walk on redshirt freshmen) I get chills thinking about that every time (not the tackle but coming out the door in front of a packed house)
Coach- Watching this year's team win the most games in school history. And the 2004 season where my former team was ranked #1 wire to wire (losing to #2 ranked team in quarterfinals by a TD)
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Post by Sparkey on Jan 8, 2009 12:31:12 GMT -6
My broken tibia and fibula as a sophomore. And, when the doctor set the two bones they gave me a piece of shoe leather to bite on. It hurt like ....! I didn't get out of the long leg cast until well into the spring.
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Post by tiger46 on Jan 8, 2009 12:31:50 GMT -6
Not really a single moment but... 8th grade. I was always the smallest kid on the team. But, I was a good CB. Whenever our coach felt an opponent's WR needed to be locked down, I was the one that got the assignment.
I could sometimes hear the opposing team's coaches and players laughing when they saw the smallest kid on the field locked up man-to-man on their best receiver. By the end of any of those games, no one would be laughing about it. And, a couple of times, I got compliments from opposing coaches.
But, the best feeling of all was knowing that my coach had that much confidence in me.
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Post by jgordon1 on Jan 8, 2009 12:55:16 GMT -6
HS: I can hardly remember any individual games or plays. What I do remember is all the fun times we had on and off the field together. Some of my best friends today were my best friends in 9th grade (1974) yup 35 years ago
Probably my greatest memory is when I was a sophomore and we played on thanksgiving in frozen rain. I sucked so I never got in. I was never so cold in my life. At 1/2 time the seniors took hot showers with their pads ON!! At the end of the game we all dived in the mud puddles LMAO
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Post by kboyd on Jan 8, 2009 14:58:06 GMT -6
As much as I enjoyed my college days and as thrilled as I was when I was drafted into the CFL, the hands down winner for me was my senior year in HS. We went 11-0 and won the Provincial Championships. It was a great team filled with players that I am still friends with today, 21 years later. I was a guard and nose guard who got to line up at short yardage tail back and it was a blast for a fat kid. Good times.
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Post by juice10 on Jan 8, 2009 15:08:08 GMT -6
A little bit of a "feel good" story, but my best HS story would be an overtime game. We were facing a team in our conference who we haven't beat the previous 12 years. This was the game that was going to decide the conference championship and a playoff berth. Score tied 6-6, we held them on their first overtime possession. We get the ball at the 10, OC calls TO and huddles us up. He gets a little fired up, little tear in his eye, looks at all of us and says "Let's cram this SOB right down their throats, GIVE, GIVE, GIVE" as he slaps all of us on the helmet. Needless to say, 2 FB dives and we were conference champs.
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Post by tothehouse on Jan 8, 2009 15:25:39 GMT -6
Running the pile back on defense and getting smashed by a bunch of my brothers stuffing a good running. I get up a little woozy. Next play they have to punt. I line up a little bit off the gunner. I had been playing off of him all game. I decide to walk up and press at the last minute. Ball snapped....I BURY the kid....full decleat, lift and launch. Punt is short and the returner probably would have let it roll if he had any pressure on him. But the gunner was reduced to ashes by me....returner picks it up......scrambles around for a second then takes it TO THE HOUSE!!!! That was very satisfying.
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Post by coachinghopeful on Jan 8, 2009 15:39:04 GMT -6
What is your greatest memory of your playing days? Mine would have to be from my seventh grade year when we went undefeated and won the conference. It was the first time that a seventh grade team had done that in school history. The best part was the last game. It was a home game and we had worn white jerseys for all of our games. Well the other team shows up in white jerseys and we have to change. Since the eight grade was wearing our schools home jerseys, we got a suprise. The varsity coach told our coach that we could wear their home jerseys since they had an away game the next night. Man, we looked like what we were, a bunch of kids with varsity football jerseys on. We thought that we were the stuff because of those jerseys. Man that seems like forever ago, and it was only in 97. It made being a part of this years undefeated seventh grade team as a coach really mean something. For me it was my freshman year, when my freshman team beat Dobyns-Bennett--a perennial regional powerhouse that's in the top 20 nationally in all-time wins-- in our first game. At the time, our varsity had never won more than 4 games in a seaso and had just been stomped by the DB varsity 56-8 the week before. That Dobyns-Bennett freshman team featured 3 guys who went on to play for major Div 1 programs, including a kid who was running 4.4 as an 8th grader. I had a sack on 4th down to kill D-B's final drive to seal an 18-12 win. Afterwards a bunch of the varsity players joined us in the locker room to celebrate and were even telling me what a great play I'd made. The senior who wore my number #68 even told me how I'd made him proud. There were lots of other good ones, but that by far is my favorite. Second was when we knocked off the #4 team in the state my senior year after going in as 21 point underdogs. That was nice too. It was the biggest win in the history of our program at the time and I got to be a (small) part of it--I was injured and spent most of the game on the sideline. |
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Post by dg1694 on Jan 8, 2009 15:39:34 GMT -6
HS - winning 13 straight games to win a state championship after losing the 1st 3 games of the season (all within the last two minutes)...beating the 2 time defending state champion in the final 31-13
College - making the travel squad after walking on as a no-talent scout team player for the previous 3 years, and being in on the kneel down play to cap a come from behind victory in a bowl game (my last as a senior)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2009 17:51:06 GMT -6
Either playing 4 years with a future NFL hall of fame wr
or knocking some poor slob silly in the City all star game
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Post by Coach Goodnight on Jan 8, 2009 18:26:54 GMT -6
Jr year of high school, 4th game of the season, we won our first game of the season in 2ot. I had 3 fum rec, recovered a blocked punt for a td and tipped the final pass of the game to win by 1 pt, was my best game of my playing days which ended at my final game of my Sr. Season as I wasn't big enough to play college ball. Man I wish I could play again!!!
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Post by phantom on Jan 8, 2009 19:24:03 GMT -6
I don't even have to think about this one.
My senior year we won the Eastern Conference championship, as far as we could go as there was no state championship yet.
We had played the same team the year before and they'd beaten us 47-6. We had graduated many key starters and they brought back most of their team including two who eventually went to NFL training camps. After the loss the coaches hung up all of the clippings and paraphanalia from the game and we got to look at it all year.
The week of the game the local radio station pumped the game up all week. The stadium was packed and the atmosphere in the locker room was very emotionally charged.
We won 14-8, completing 0-3 passes. After the game there was an impromptu parade with the team riding fire trucks through the streets of the town. They sure love their HS football in PA.
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Post by silkyice on Jan 8, 2009 19:33:01 GMT -6
Playing center and scoop blocking the a gap defender so well that I lifted him up a just enough to cut down the all-state MLB. Oh, by the way, it happened with 47 seconds left on the winning TD run to win the state championship 10-6 and finish 14-0.
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Post by endersgame on Jan 8, 2009 19:40:48 GMT -6
Either playing 4 years with a future NFL hall of fame wr That's interesting Coach, who was it? |
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Post by coachcathey on Jan 8, 2009 20:08:22 GMT -6
1st - Walking on at the defending national champions at the time. (Wasn't that level of a player, but I made it.)
2nd - Kicking a game winning FG in triple OT to put the team in the playoffs for the second consecutive year and only the 3rd time in school history.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2009 20:21:54 GMT -6
Either playing 4 years with a future NFL hall of fame wr That's interesting Coach, who was it? Marvin Harrison |
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Post by endersgame on Jan 8, 2009 20:54:13 GMT -6
2nd - Kicking a game winning FG in triple OT to put the team in the playoffs for the second consecutive year and only the 3rd time in school history. That's gotta be awesome.... That's really interesting, because him and Wes Welker have always been my favorite players. Was/Is he as really quiet and shy as the media says? |
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Post by coachjd on Jan 8, 2009 21:00:57 GMT -6
Beating Dickinson State for the conference championship my senior year in college. It was the first conference championship at the school in 25 years. Place was going crazy, fans, players, etc... entire town partied until Sunday morning.
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Post by groundchuck on Jan 8, 2009 21:15:30 GMT -6
It was my senior year of HS and we were playing our biggest rival for thier homecoming. Because of a schedule glitch we played them to open the season in a game that did not count in the conference standings. They beat us.
Before we got on the bus we met in the lobby. There's a tradition at my alma mater to take the dog out of the house on the trophy case following a win. We lost the week before so the Bulldog was in the house. Coach tells one of the captains to take the dog out. He asks me if the dog has to go back in after the game. There were a lot heeel-no's being shouted.
We got dressed at our place, rode 10 miles on the bus. Beat them 21-20 on a FG with 1:00 to play. Our TB had like 300 all purpose yards with his right wrist in a cast.
These two schools hate eachother and the rivalry brings out the best and worst in both sides. Four state titles between them too.
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Post by ocinaz on Jan 8, 2009 21:38:41 GMT -6
High School-After an awful Junior season for our team, we got a new HC and made it to the playoffs as a Senior, eventhough we lost, it was a great feeling being part of that "turn around" process...Then during the summer of my senior year, going to New Zealand to play in the Down Under Bowl, Beating a team from Wellington, NZ...But losing to Wyoming...
College-Winning our first and only game of my Freshman season, beating Menlo College...
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Post by los on Jan 8, 2009 21:56:46 GMT -6
My best memory's of playing football rarely have to do with big hits, big plays or winning games....mine are more like....."that final whistle signally the end of a grueling practice"......"a nice cool drink of water, when you're so hot, your slobber has dried up"....."making it thru a practice or game, with all the skin on your hands"....."practice on Monday, if you won Fri. night"......"practice on Monday, if you lost Fri. night"....."the comraderie between teammates, that lasts a lifetime".....these are some of my lasting memory's! lol
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Post by coachjoe3 on Jan 8, 2009 22:37:46 GMT -6
My first tackle has a varsity player. On one of the first plays, the QB tucked the ball in and tried to get outside and I was the DE. It was an ugly tackle, but I got him!
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Post by goldenbear76 on Jan 9, 2009 3:27:54 GMT -6
This is going to sound funny...but my Jr year in high school....we played a game in the rain/mud. I was the long snapper (also OT/DT). Anyway, I snap the ball to the punter, I knew it was a bad snap immediately, I could feel the ball slip off my fingers as I snapped. Anyway, I turn around, run back, pick up the ball...and run it for a 2 or 3 yard gain. As terrible as a play as I made...it was my only time ever running with the ball during a game...what a blast..took 5 guys to take me down though! I'm pretty sure my head coach wasn't exactly thrilled with my running ability though. It was my one moment in time to be "Earl Campbell"
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Post by jpdaley25 on Jan 9, 2009 6:37:21 GMT -6
Junior year in high school, 2nd round State Playoffs, down 14-0 midway through the third quarter, they punt, we get the ball at our own 2, we grind out a 14 play drive, I do a Herchel Walker dive over the top for the score, the crowd goes wild, we take the momentum and win 28-14.
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