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Post by fantom on May 29, 2024 15:04:18 GMT -6
Who was the strangest guy that you remember from your playing or coaching days?
We had a guy we called "Big Swole". Big, strong kid who'd never played but came out as a senior. We figured, why not? At least he could hold a dummy,
A few exploits:
1. Kids told him that they were doing drug tests but he could beat it if he drank a jar of pickle juice. He did.
2. We told the team that we'd be taking pictures the next day at 4. He asked the other guys if that was AM or PM. Bad move.
3. He went missing for a week. When he came back he said that he'd had MRSA. It was actually athlete's foot.
4. When we tried to put him into a game very late in a blowout he started hyperventilating and said that he thought he was having a heart attack. Trainer said that it was a panic attack, apparently because he'd have to actually play.
The single strangest thing I've seen, though, almost doesn't count because in was in semi-pro, where weird is normal. Another guy and I were dressing before the game when we heard a strange sound further down the row of lockers. We turned and saw that a guy had dropped a can of Coke and was slurping the soda off of the floor. We quietly moved to a different row.
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Post by larrymoe on May 30, 2024 12:08:46 GMT -6
I had twin brothers that transferred to our coop school from a bigger "inner city" high school. When I heard we were getting them I was kind of excited because most kids from that school were more athletic than any of the 80 boys in the school I worked at.
Turns out I was wrong. Not even exaggerating, but their combined IQs didn't equal 100. One would sit on the sideline during practice and blow dandelions and sing. No one messed with him because we're still not sure he was operating on the same reality plane as the rest of us. The other was one of those low IQ kids who knows everything. He'd tell our All State OL/DL constantly that he sucked and what he was doing wrong. He'd challenge kids to fights, although no one actually fought him because I had nice kids. He'd even tell me in games he thought I was calling dumb plays.
After a couple weeks the dandelion kid just quit showing up. The mouthy one quit practicing and became our "water boy". My 6 year old daughter was our ball girl and at one point at a game he challenged her to a fight. That was the end of that kid.
The next year, our secretary tells me we've got twins from the other inner city school from the same city transferringto our coop school. I immediately begin dying laughing because I thought she was joking. She wasn't. Then I got mad because all I could see was those kids in my head. The new twins came to see me and they were 6 foot tall, 200lb specimens of humans as sophomores. They both ended up being 3 year starters for us.
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Post by bignose on May 30, 2024 12:38:39 GMT -6
We had a kid from a nearby urban area show up at our very diverse suburban school wearing a mink jacket, in early August.
He had enough gold veneers in his mouth to fill Fort Knox.
This was before kids with tatoos were common, but he was covered in them.
Physically, he met the eyeball test, muscular, athletic looking.
We fit him out with gear, and tried to find out what he could do.
During workouts he seemed less than willing to push himself.
When one of the assistant coaches called him out to pick up the tempo, he replied with a sneer: "You can't tell me what to do, you ain't my father!"
At which point the assistant said: "You're right, and I'm not your coach, either! You can take off our $hit and get off of the field."
He had the kid strip off every piece of equipment we gave him, leaving him in his skivvies and socks, then had a manager escort him to the locker room to pick up his clothes.
Turns out that he never enrolled at the school.
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Post by blockandtackle on Jun 9, 2024 20:16:20 GMT -6
This kid wasn’t “strange” as a person, but it was strange to watch him play.
When I was a player, there was a powerhouse small school team making a run at state right across the line in VA. I got to watch them on their playoff run
They ran true 3 back wishbone then (late 90s) and their QB was a 6’10” future PF for Wake Forest.
It was something to see, since he was a head faller than everyone else on grass and lanky. He’d squat so low under center that his butt almost touched the ground, then he’d come tearing out of there with that huge stride on options and boots.
The visual aspect of watching a giant QB running option and hurdling defenders who were literally a foot (or even a foot and a half) shorter was something to behold.
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Post by raider92 on Jun 10, 2024 11:29:32 GMT -6
I played with a guy who was a state champion wrestler, just an absolute monster. Hyper competitive, focused, trained year round, 4.0 student, an absolute stud.
When it came to football he was a great linebacker but was the most unfocused human being you can imagine. It was like he existed in his own world and just occasionally would slip back into ours just long enough to be an a$$kicking LBer for a play. Had no idea what any play calls meant (again, he wasn't dumb), would constantly ask what team we were playing and when, never knew whether to bring his home or away jersey. Just a goofy weird dude
One day before a game we are in a parking lot (at an opposing teams place) he took a football and was intentionally trying to punt it straight up in the air so he could catch it.
He punts it probably 6-8 times and at least 4 or 5 of those times the ball comes down and hits someone's car in the lot. Someone from the other school came over hollering at him about how rude he was being to do that.
He genuinely had no idea what the big deal was. It was like he couldn't connect the dots at all. It was also hilarious, wrestlers are weird people wired differently.
He also ignored big time nationally ranked wrestling programs who came to recruit him. He was willing to be an Iowa Hawkeye and any other school he totally ignored. Strange cat. He's a surgeon now
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Post by larrymoe on Jun 10, 2024 15:55:10 GMT -6
I played with a guy who was a state champion wrestler, just an absolute monster. Hyper competitive, focused, trained year round, 4.0 student, an absolute stud. When it came to football he was a great linebacker but was the most unfocused human being you can imagine. It was like he existed in his own world and just occasionally would slip back into ours just long enough to be an a$$kicking LBer for a play. Had no idea what any play calls meant (again, he wasn't dumb), would constantly ask what team we were playing and when, never knew whether to bring his home or away jersey. Just a goofy weird dude One day before a game we are in a parking lot (at an opposing teams place) he took a football and was intentionally trying to punt it straight up in the air so he could catch it. He punts it probably 6-8 times and at least 4 or 5 of those times the ball comes down and hits someone's car in the lot. Someone from the other school came over hollering at him about how rude he was being to do that. He genuinely had no idea what the big deal was. It was like he couldn't connect the dots at all. It was also hilarious, wrestlers are weird people wired differently. He also ignored big time nationally ranked wrestling programs who came to recruit him. He was willing to be an Iowa Hawkeye and any other school he totally ignored. Strange cat. He's a surgeon now Football is an incredibly slow paced, somewhat boring game compared to wrestling. The kid probably got bored by the 5 seconds of activity every 3 mins. |
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Post by silkyice on Jun 10, 2024 19:01:33 GMT -6
I played with a guy who was a state champion wrestler, just an absolute monster. Hyper competitive, focused, trained year round, 4.0 student, an absolute stud. When it came to football he was a great linebacker but was the most unfocused human being you can imagine. It was like he existed in his own world and just occasionally would slip back into ours just long enough to be an a$$kicking LBer for a play. Had no idea what any play calls meant (again, he wasn't dumb), would constantly ask what team we were playing and when, never knew whether to bring his home or away jersey. Just a goofy weird dude One day before a game we are in a parking lot (at an opposing teams place) he took a football and was intentionally trying to punt it straight up in the air so he could catch it. He punts it probably 6-8 times and at least 4 or 5 of those times the ball comes down and hits someone's car in the lot. Someone from the other school came over hollering at him about how rude he was being to do that. He genuinely had no idea what the big deal was. It was like he couldn't connect the dots at all. It was also hilarious, wrestlers are weird people wired differently. He also ignored big time nationally ranked wrestling programs who came to recruit him. He was willing to be an Iowa Hawkeye and any other school he totally ignored. Strange cat. He's a surgeon now Football is an incredibly slow paced, somewhat boring game compared to wrestling. The kid probably got bored by the 5 seconds of activity every 3 mins. Incredibly slow paced is not exactly how I would describe football. 5 seconds every 3 minutes?? Slower than basketball, sure. Slower than wrestling, sure while you are actually wrestling. But I would think that waiting around an hour so that you can have your 8 minutes is not what I would call fast paced. Also, while you are actually playing football, there is no way someone can think it slow paced. I mean you run a play. Run back to the huddle or get lined up and get your call and then the ball could be snapped pretty soon after. And if you only play one way, how is that different than waiting around in wrestling? Actually, it is faster paced there because you have to be ready to go back in at any moment instead of “I wrestle after 6 matches later.” For fans, yes, football can be a little slower paced than wrestling for some. |
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Post by larrymoe on Jun 10, 2024 19:49:26 GMT -6
Having done both sports, there's no comparison between the two. Football IS extremely slow paced compared to wrestling.
Sure, you may only wrestle 6-8 minutes a match, but there's about 20-30 minutes of "gameplay" in a 2-3 hour long football game. And, unless you're the ball carrier, a lot of that is spent walking, jogging or standing around watching someone else run. There's not a lot of morbidly obese wrestlers at the top of the sport, but there sure are a lot of college football and NFL players that can't walk the length of the field without a break.
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Post by silkyice on Jun 11, 2024 10:03:35 GMT -6
Having done both sports, there's no comparison between the two. Football IS extremely slow paced compared to wrestling. Sure, you may only wrestle 6-8 minutes a match, but there's about 20-30 minutes of "gameplay" in a 2-3 hour long football game. And, unless you're the ball carrier, a lot of that is spent walking, jogging or standing around watching someone else run. There's not a lot of morbidly obese wrestlers at the top of the sport, but there sure are a lot of college football and NFL players that can't walk the length of the field without a break. 1) But "extremely slow paced" is over the top. Slower paced, absolutely. But that is 100% inevitable. Something that takes 8 minutes tops is and is 1 on 1, of course, is going to be faster paced then something that takes 2-3 hours and is 11 on 11. What if football was played for just three 2 minute periods? Wrestling is extremely slow paced compared to Rugby 7's. At least they are running on field instead of being confined to a small circle. 2) you originally said 5 seconds of action for 3 minutes. But yet it is really much closer to your 20-30 minutes per 2-3 hours which 5 seconds per 30 seconds. 3) Are you saying that unless you are the ball carrier you are just walking, jogging, or standing around? 4) Wrestlers aren't obese for one reason, weight classes. What would they look like if there isn't a weight limit? The only football players who are "obese", would be some offensive lineman who would compare to no weight limit wrestlers. 5) I know you are being funny that NFL players can't walk 100 yards without a break. Or at least I hope you are. |
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Post by IronmanFootball on Jun 11, 2024 10:14:06 GMT -6
He had the kid strip off every piece of equipment we gave him, leaving him in his skivvies and socks that's a weird coach, not a weird player |
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Post by freezeoption on Jun 12, 2024 16:43:50 GMT -6
Comparing football to wrestling or anything else is crazy. They are different sports with different physical conditioning. Most kids are not focused.
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