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Post by jgordon1 on Feb 7, 2009 4:17:26 GMT -6
You used to smell the papers when they came off the mimeograph machine
Cut ups were really cutups.. you literally took the film from an 8 or 16 mm projector, cut it and hung it on the wall.
Film had a shiny side and a dull side
If the film broke you had to fix it w/ a special little machine... I never used it.
You brought a projector to meetings.. That stil might have been easier than bringing a computer and an LCD projector
All the cool little templates you had. I had a green one w/ the Green Bay Packers logo. Didn't everyone
Film came in canisters and you could tell how much you had to break down by feeling the weight of the can
I worked on two staffs where guys smoked a pipe in the office. I still love the smell of Black Cherry Tobacco
There was NO Starbucks, no Mapquest, no cell phones, no computers
Billy "white shoes" Johnson
Copy machines didn't collate. boy I was fast..
You could stay up all night, drink and still fell ok for meetings and practice the next day
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Post by touchdownmaker on Feb 7, 2009 4:53:44 GMT -6
....when it was ok to wear "coaching shorts"
man some of the guys around here still wear those short shorts and the black cleats with their white socks (two stripes) pulled up to the calf. 1970 has nothing on these guys.
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Post by dacoachmo on Feb 7, 2009 8:24:13 GMT -6
....when it was ok to wear "coaching shorts" man some of the guys around here still wear those short shorts and the black cleats with their white socks (two stripes) pulled up to the calf. 1970 has nothing on these guys. I worn those at one time...sadly I can't find any pictures!
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Post by jpdaley25 on Feb 7, 2009 9:07:23 GMT -6
....when the coach's decisions weren't questioned.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2009 11:33:21 GMT -6
I remember the film melting when it got stuck
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Post by ystick2 on Feb 7, 2009 11:51:04 GMT -6
salt tablets
talc powder boxes
athtletic taping a kid to a locker room bench was still a "joke."
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Post by phantom on Feb 7, 2009 12:00:46 GMT -6
I remember the film melting when it got stuck Or having the takeup reel getting stuck so that the film unraveled all over the floor. Not to mention having to drive the film to get developed then going back the next day to pick it up. Ahh, the good old days, may they never return.
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Post by coachgeorge51 on Feb 7, 2009 14:04:22 GMT -6
you could get in a kid's face (cause you cared about him) and no one would call the G D school board or superintendent. Like I give a shi* what they say anyway......................
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Post by touchdowng on Feb 7, 2009 15:06:16 GMT -6
When I took film home to watch over the summer as a H.S. QB my coach lent me one of the school's projectors.
My parents thought I was whacked.
That was the good ol days.
Now we just send digitized video to our players via DVD or on the internet.
How I miss the "click, click, click..." of that projector.
Sometimes our HC would take a player's helmet and go to the middle of the circle of "bull in the ring." He did this to prove his point (stay low & strike with perfect footwork), not to hurt us and his point was very well taken. Do this today and you are outta job.
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Post by touchdownmaker on Feb 7, 2009 15:32:05 GMT -6
...WHEN CONDITIONING WASNT CONSIDERED PUNISHMENT
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Post by ystick2 on Feb 7, 2009 15:37:28 GMT -6
the hard plastic hip/tailbone protector...... and when a freshman would wear it backwards!!
tires instead of "speed ladders"
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Post by coachpost on Feb 7, 2009 16:14:18 GMT -6
techmo bowl was the only video game in town.
chalk talk was done using chalk.
...sunscreen? what's that?
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Post by touchdownmaker on Feb 7, 2009 16:28:09 GMT -6
techmo bowl? jimmine...thats not old is it???
we used to play "atari M network football" which was 3 on 3 or something.
old school is "oddesy football" or "intellivision football" (great game, you could program your routes for your recievers, I pulled my tight ends to lead block on run plays)
remember when kids used to shout out the names of their favorite nfl players....and it was runningbacks, not receivers. "Im Walter Peyton!"
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Post by coachpost on Feb 7, 2009 16:40:50 GMT -6
I must be a 'tweener.
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Post by jgordon1 on Feb 7, 2009 17:51:34 GMT -6
When i was in HS we drank out of a ladel. My line coach had us put lemon rinds in our sock and we had to suck on them when we got thirsty.
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Post by hsrose on Feb 7, 2009 18:10:25 GMT -6
I started at a school of 90 that played 6-man football.
How about the suspension helmets, canvas blocking bags, goal posts made out of 3" aluminum irrigation pipe from a local farmer that would vibrate and whistle in the wind, and the 2-bar face mask? Or the sideline markers made in Ag shop out of rebar and extra chain? Down marker was a plywood box mounted on rebar with 1-2-3-4 painted on the sides - you could really get that thing spinning. Salt tablets were the norm, no weight room - we were all farm boys bucking hay bales all day anyway. And all this was in the early 70's.
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Post by hchscoachtom on Feb 7, 2009 19:58:26 GMT -6
. . . you didn't want to a small head when they were passing out equipment because that meant you were going to get a "leather head" helmet. At least it did have 2 bar facemask. This was in 1976. Yikes.
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Post by ajreaper on Feb 7, 2009 21:17:10 GMT -6
Nice trip down memory lane.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2009 21:44:51 GMT -6
I remember the film melting when it got stuck Or having the takeup reel getting stuck so that the film unraveled all over the floor. Not to mention having to drive the film to get developed then going back the next day to pick it up. Ahh, the good old days, may they never return. And that noise that sounds like my 1 year old giving the raspberries
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2009 21:45:56 GMT -6
me too but I remember all this from when my dad was coaching
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Post by touchdownmaker on Feb 7, 2009 22:03:49 GMT -6
soccer was considered 'communist"
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Post by touchdownmaker on Feb 7, 2009 22:05:29 GMT -6
oh heres one that I have to share. Remember when junior high kids and most high school kids didnt have a trainer? now it seems like every other kid is out with an ice bag on his elbow, shoulder or knee. we used to "walk it off" when there was an injury. Now a kid gets a scrape on his elbow and hes out 6-8 weeks.
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Post by touchdownmaker on Feb 7, 2009 22:06:34 GMT -6
Heres another one. remember when there was no internet football forums? If you wanted to learn anything you had to go to the book store and by the crap they had "winning football the nfl way" and stuff like that.
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Post by schultbear74 on Feb 7, 2009 22:21:49 GMT -6
remember when soccer wasn't even considered
I wore a suspension helmet when it was considered "high Tech"
I've got pictures of me in bike coaching shorts and spot builts
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Post by tothehouse on Feb 7, 2009 23:39:04 GMT -6
....every game was played outdoors...............ON GRASS.
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Post by talexander on Feb 8, 2009 0:33:33 GMT -6
. . . . When
The Head Coach got to stay at a school long enough to build a program
Parents realized that the H.C. knew more about football than they did
H.C. did not have to justify why he wanted to teach kids discipline
You could have an actual "Hell Week" without getting sued
You weren't "called to the carpet" to be told that kids should have their names on jerseys and Tuesday night practice should be canceled in favor of a pizza party to foster "positivity" (this actually happened to me this year)
Parents didn't protest to board when you wanted kids to show up to summer weights and. . .
Then didn't complain and call for your head when your team got physically mauled on Friday nights
Parents knew better than to think their kid--who is a small and slow backup at the high school level--was not going to a Division I school with a full ride scholarship on his way to NFL fame
Parents Shut the F up and let coaches coach.
Parents and others realized that building a program takes time--and changing coaches every year or two is not going to get it done
The football team actually got to use the football field for practice.
There was no such thing as the A-11 (sorry Bryan, no offense)
BTW, all of the above--and more--happened to me this year. Ran out of town after one full year.
Had 25 plus juniors a handful of seniors. New systems, was not allowed to go to camp (previous violations) and summer ball was affected by California fires. Previous coach lasted two years. A group of parents got a petition together claiming that we "verbally abused" players. NEVER HAPPENED! Kids didn't like that they were held accountable, and parents didn't like that their kid wasn't playing as much as they did on JV. Parents jumbled together verbal abuse with stuff like "why aren't there names on jerseys" and "what's with not all the kids having stickers on the side of their helmets the first couple games" (we didn't give them all to those who didn't show up during summer weights). After the third game, an administrator was appointed to practice every day, and the kids knew their hard work was over. After that, we SUCKED--it was embarrassing. I actually had parents email me to recommend firing some of my assistants! I have more, but most would not believe it.
It was like the parents collectively said, "We don't want our kids to learn any thing about being a responsible young man and the value of hard work. We want him to grow up with a sense of entitlement and turn out to be an absolute s#%%t head." I don't get it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2009 7:57:00 GMT -6
soccer was considered 'communist" was ?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2009 8:05:20 GMT -6
remember when soccer wasn't even considered I wore a suspension helmet when it was considered "high Tech" I've got pictures of me in bike coaching shorts and spot builts The Bike air helmets , and how you ALWAYS got a headache from wearing the F/in thing locker rooms smelled like icy hot kids showered after the friggin game every weight room had that universal machine, where 4 guys could work ou at once--5 if you include the dip bar on the back of the leg press seat. those flesh colored arm pads, that looked like a prosthetic, and those hand pads that covered the back of your hands only. foot joy coaching shoes with the flap that covered the laces and those heavy guage steel chutes, where you knocked yourself out if you popped your head out ahhhhh good times...good times
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2009 8:24:00 GMT -6
We still have the talc boxes.
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Post by nohuddlecoach on Feb 8, 2009 8:46:26 GMT -6
when your status as a warrior depended on how many different colored marks you had on ur helmet
mint flavored mouthpeices
ahh the salt tablet days.... "coach i think i broke my arm", "here take a salt tablet."
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