![]() it’s been almost 50 years but i just knew i would never forget gary bader’s name. ball is slicing and it hits smack in the middle of his webbing. i turn around and bader never moved…….he kinda turned sideways and put a backhand out, he was a righty, glove on the left hand. well, the ball screams over my head and i knew this was a tie game. back in the day, everyone had to play 1/2 game and it usually was the RF, the kid that signed up but just stood out there and picked weeds. two outs and a runner on third for our opponent when their number 3 hitter, a RH hits a screaming rope to right center field. game went to extra innings and we were up 10-8 in the bottom of the 7th, games were 6 innings. we made the championship game and played at a better than usual field in kissena park. it was the 8-9 yr old division and we had a good team. Girls and weed took over and that was it.Ī team story, from little league. I went against the senior FB in Oklahoma drills and he just murdered me. My first scrimmage of college football I moved back to running back. There was a dude under the basket who saw the whole thing and said: “Dayum, he just ate yo ****” The opposing PG and I were still in the same spot as this happened so fast. The other PG was attempting an easy (for him) baseline jumper and I blocked it, took it from him, turned and threw it to half court to my teammate and we scored to win. ![]() ![]() This was just a rec league championship so not “real” basketball but we were tied with about 6 seconds left. Playing organized sports was a cakewalk compared to that. Playing “33” against 20 other grown men, mostly felons, toughens you up. He left the game and we won.īasketball: I was great on defense and fearless in the lane. I would have gotten thrown out in todays game. I had the angle but probably wouldn’t have made the hit if my teammate didn’t slow the runner just a hair before launched at him with everything I had. He caught a screen and was running down the sidelines. Hitting people was a lot of fun.įootball: One of the fastest guys in the state was dominating us. I’m actually glad he said that because I would have been slaughtered behind our line. HS coach told me he would never let a white kid play running back so I switched to linebacker and safety. Nickname was “white chocolate” because I was the only white kid on every team I ever played on. Basketball and football were my best two sports. HC said we hate to lose you, blah blah blah, thanks for coming by.Īs I walked away, I heard the HC ask “who was that?,” and my position coach respond “I have no idea.” There were 3-4 coaches in there chatting (including my position coach), and I interrupted to tell some ******** story about how my dad was making me quit. I decided to quit after practice one day, so I went to the coach’s office. I think I got a couple more plays that game, but that was about it.Ī few games into the season, I was bored and frustrated. We may have been called for 12 in the huddle, but I don’t remember. The qb (same *******) tells me to get the eff of the field. Apparently my pressure forced an INT, but had no idea. I trot back to the huddle and look around to see a bunch of faces that shouldn’t be there. I do as I’m told, he releases the ball, and I pull up so I don’t get a penalty. I finally get in the game, and on the first play I’m completely unblocked with a direct path to the qb. We had a preseason game coming up, and one of the big keys for us was that if we had a clear line to the qb, we were supposed to sprint towards him with our arms straight up. Had no idea what I was doing, but we were short on bodies, so they slid me over. The backup qb, who threw the pass (and was an ******* anyway), screamed at me (as he should have), and that was that. Also had no inkling of what the playbook consisted of, and in my one practice opportunity to catch a pass, I ran the wrong route. Wanted to play receiver, but I’m slow and was a smoker. Senior year, walked on to the football team.
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