Glory Days

[HeHateMe]

I've never denied the jelly of the retired lifestyle

I don't think Ommy is retired.

 

[SilenceS]

I don't think Ommy is retired.

Eggactly

 

[Novak]

Eggactly

I don't get it...

Is this some kind of collaborative troll? In the glory days thread, no less? :smh:

Real peach you must be IRL

 

[BNB]

QB, #17. It was given to me, but I didn't mind 'cause my birthday is on the 17th.

I didn't play for long though. Early on in the season, I scrambled for a first and when I got hit, the dudes helmet hit me in an awkward spot on my elbow. It wasn't painful until I was was getting set to throw. I'd get this sharp pain that shot down into my hand. So I stopped, and it actually stayed there long as ****.

Then I just joined XC in meantime to stay in shape for basketball season and I actually never went back to football.

 

[Omeletpants]

He lives with his parents basement?

You heard me

 

[BigTom]

I was an undersized center that might have been 5'7. But I made up for that by being every possible stereotype of the scrappy white guy: high-motor, high-energy guy, always made the smart play. Our guards and tackle were a bunch of monsters but not the smartest players, so I got into the starting lineup by being their coach on the field. I wore No. 57 because Olin Kreutz was my idol. Even had to start wearing a Cowboy Collar like Kreutz due to some shoulder issues.

Only played varsity as a senior. Our team was ranked up near the top of Class 3A in Indiana (same class Cutler played) all season long. For our Homecoming game, we played our biggest rivals and biggest obstacle between us and a trip downstate, and demolished them 48-14. Probably the best night of my life as an athlete; our team was on such an emotional high that night we would've beat anybody.

Played that same team in the third round of the playoffs about a month later. They converted on a 4th-and-26 with a 33-yard TD pass and ran a fake FG on the extra point to go up 36-35. We threw a pick in the final seconds trying to get in position for a game-winning field goal. That game was 10 years ago last fall, and one of the local reporters wrote an article calling it the best game he'd seen in our area.

Whole damn game is up on YouTube, which would be a lot cooler if we'd won. That loss stuck with me for years.

[video=youtube;q29yyKmBi34]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q29yyKmBi34[/video]

Spent a year on a shitty D3 roster before hanging up the cleats for good, except for some brief flag football leagues here and there. But those high school games? Had 12 of the best nights of my life that fall. Great times.

Ive always thought that was a Griffith uniform in your avatar. I went to Morton. God how I hated Griffith. The last game I ever played was a playoff game against Griffith. Never could stand your coach either. Sure he wins alot of games but has absolutely no class whatsoever on the sideline. He could be winning by 40 points against a terrible team and hed still have his starters in there running up the score and throwing tantrums every time something didnt go right. Morton Griffith had a good rivalry going there for a few years. And I actually miss rooting against Griffith now that they are terrible. It takes all the fun out of beating them.

 

[SilenceS]

You heard me

Eggactly

 

[Chief Walking Stick]

This makes me miss football, man.

I legit still have a super tight hamstring from one time making a one handed catch in the endzone. I half jumped and my hamstring on way down just fucking tightened so bad. Like I literally couldn't move from the position it was in, which was by my butt. Ugh. Thought they were tearing t off when they came over to get me to move lol

Yea dude. I played QB on our J.V. team but was a free safety on varsity. I wasn't a huge guy by any means but I was fast as hell. I didn't have a cannon like Cutler but I had field vision like Wilson... that's what kept me from playing QB on Varsity.

I actually still have BOTH letterman jackets. I don't flaunt them like "peaked in highschool" Rob Lowe... but having them framed in my office feels pretty good when I take myself down memory lane.

You guys remember bonfires with the cheerleaders? Ohhhh man highschool was a wild ride, haha.

 

[DMelt36]

Ive always thought that was a Griffith uniform in your avatar. I went to Morton. God how I hated Griffith. The last game I ever played was a playoff game against Griffith. Never could stand your coach either. Sure he wins alot of games but has absolutely no class whatsoever on the sideline. He could be winning by 40 points against a terrible team and hed still have his starters in there running up the score and throwing tantrums every time something didnt go right. Morton Griffith had a good rivalry going there for a few years. And I actually miss rooting against Griffith now that they are terrible. It takes all the fun out of beating them.

Oh all the talk about him running up the scores was largely overblown. Morton does that now to the majority of the teams it plays. All the good teams in the area do. Just the nature of the beast.

There was a good rivalry there for a while but I graduated just before it got going. My younger brother was there for the middle of it; made a GW FG as time expired against Morton one year. I was there in the peak of the Griffith/Andrean one, though. That was a blast.

 

[DMelt36]

Yea dude. I played QB on our J.V. team but was a free safety on varsity. I wasn't a huge guy by any means but I was fast as hell. I didn't have a cannon like Cutler but I had field vision like Wilson... that's what kept me from playing QB on Varsity.

I actually still have BOTH letterman jackets. I don't flaunt them like "peaked in highschool" Rob Lowe... but having them framed in my office feels pretty good when I take myself down memory lane.

You guys remember bonfires with the cheerleaders? Ohhhh man highschool was a wild ride, haha.

Letterman jackets feel like such a waste of money. For a kid like me that only played varsity for one season, by the time I had some patches on it worth wearing, it was time to graduate and the jacket went to the back of the closet forever. If it was socially acceptable to wear that in public I'd be all over it.