What game would you want to replay from HS?

I left it all on the field, I have no regrets. However, like Peyton said in the video, it would be playing for my coach again, or with my teammates that I'd want the most from my senior season. Any of those games would be worth it to play with those guys again.

Oy... Tallahasse Godby (the good guys) vs. Tallahassee Leon, game 6 of the season for the district and the playoff spot. Leon had Jimmy Jordan and Kurt Unglaub, later regulars at FSU. Jimmy threw for 4007 yards that season. Obviously they threw it all over the yard, mostly out a pro set. Thank goodness the spread wasn't around much in '75.

We played 'em in a bracket coverage with a LB helping under and a DB in man over the top. I always went with Kurt over the top, held him to about 3 catches but the last one hurt. 6 minutes left, we're up, 4th and 15. They'd been killing us with screens all night where the DBs were having to come up to make the tackle after 10-15 positive yards for them, we were giving them a pash rush like they'd never seen before or after, despite their continuous holding up front. Jimmy drops back, I start peeking into the backfield looking for that screen. Big mistake, I started thinking instead of playing my guy. He gets a step, crap the balls coming this way, leap, thought I hit it, crowd roars, I look up from the ground and the wrong colors are jumping up and down. Jimmy throws a strike for a 48 yard TD on 4th and 15 to give them the lead, and just to rub it in Kurt shows me the ball by putting it in my face. (Kurt really was and is a good guy, it was heat of the moment in the rivalry.) Go back to the sideline and my DB coach gets me on the phone to chew my a$$: "What'd I tell you? Stay deeper than him! What'd I tell you? That just cost us the game!".

I wanted to dig a hole and just disappear from the planet. It took me years to get over it. However I came to realize that in our biggest disappointments are valuable lessons:

- No one play by a single player is the complete difference in a ball game. There are always other plays not made by the team that could have made the difference. In a game of evenly matched teams there will be 3-5 plays where if you make the majority of them, you probably win.

- Playing DB sucks sometimes. You'd better have a short memory because you could have had a great game and if you get beat for the winning score you're gonna look like the goat. Whatever your position, take it one play at a time; if you got beat on the last play, get 'em on the next play. If you get beat 5 times in a row, find a way to make the play on the 6th one.

- As a player, don' t think, just do your job and trust that everyone else will do theirs.

- As a coach be careful before you beat down a player after a play; sometimes it is called for, other times best to give it some time and come back to it.

Live, learn, move on and be better for it.

The one where I tore up my knee - "I coulda been a contenda".

what he said

it was more than any one game, just the whole experience.

My senior year homecoming game. We were the better team, but lost 22-8. We turned the ball over on five our first six possessions and never recovered.

I did play in 4 of my college's Alumni vs Varsity games after graduating. That part about getting out of bed the next day is oh so true....

2nd round of the playoffs my senior year. we were playing argyle( a really good spread team). It was 32 degrees outside and raining. we lost 21-9. offense couldn't move the ball any that game, Def played good but you loose as a team. Almost had the QB once but he bairly got away.

The next day my fingers were still numb( didn't need the reminder)

Life lesson you loose as a team!!!! I never played Offense but when some one struggles we all struggle.

Theres some other bad memories tied into this but i wont mention that now. still to bitter

ironic thing i go to college were we lost the game. Still hate that stadium!

My senior year, we entered the 2nd round of the playoffs with an 8-2 record and were playing a 10-0 team that was ranked #1 in the state. We ended up beating them 19-16 after a comeback in the last 1:30 and, 17 years later, it is still one of the biggest playoff wins in school history.

We lost the next week in the quarterfinals 38-0 to the state runner up. We could have played those guys 50 times and they would have beat us every game.

So, I really have no regrets. I really wasn't a great player. I actually like coaching a whole lot more.

After thinking about it, the biggest regret I have is not knowing what I know now about strength and conditioning.

I played D-III ball after high school and, while our coaches wanted us to "lift", there really wasn't any direction or coaching. Basically, we went down to the local convenience store, picked up a copy of "Muscle and Fitness" and proceeded to do "Lee Haney's Killer Biceps and Chest Workout" as our training routine.

After my junior year, my mom gave me a copy of Greg Shephard's BFS book and I was blown away by that. I had never done a deadlift or a clean before that and, while I trained smarter for my senior year, I really wish that I had known what I was doing for those first three years.