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Who did you play against (or almost play against)

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Nutriaitch

Nutriaitch

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so in the coaching change thread i mentioned i played against Herb Tyler in High School.

so just curious who some of you midwestern guys (or the Tomato guy if he actually played and wasn’t on chess team or some shit) either actually played, or just missed playing against in High School.

Played against:
Herb Tyler (LSU quarterback)
Rondel Mealy (LSU running back)
Larry Foster (LSU wideout, spent some time with Detroit Lions)
Travis Minor (FSU running back, spent some time in NFL)


Just missed:
Peyton Manning - we played Newman year after he graduated
Jake Delhomme - played Teurlings Catholic my Sr year (3 years after Jake)
Kevin Faulk - had we won i. first round of playoffs, would have played Carencro in 2nd round his senior year
Corey Webster - i’m 4 years older than him, but our HS are district rivals
Warrick Dunn - same HS as Minor, but his freshman year at FSU was my sophomore year in HS
 
Nutriaitch said:
so in the coaching change thread i mentioned i played against Herb Tyler in High School.

so just curious who some of you midwestern guys (or the Tomato guy if he actually played and wasn’t on chess team or some shit) either actually played, or just missed playing against in High School.

Played against:
Herb Tyler (LSU quarterback)
Rondel Mealy (LSU running back)
Larry Foster (LSU wideout, spent some time with Detroit Lions)
Travis Minor (FSU running back, spent some time in NFL)


Just missed:
Peyton Manning - we played Newman year after he graduated
Jake Delhomme - played Teurlings Catholic my Sr year (3 years after Jake)
Kevin Faulk - had we won i. first round of playoffs, would have played Carencro in 2nd round his senior year
Corey Webster - i’m 4 years older than him, but our HS are district rivals
Warrick Dunn - same HS as Minor, but his freshman year at FSU was my sophomore year in HS
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Wow.
 
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Nutriaitch said:
so in the coaching change thread i mentioned i played against Herb Tyler in High School.

so just curious who some of you midwestern guys (or the Tomato guy if he actually played and wasn’t on chess team or some shit) either actually played, or just missed playing against in High School.

Played against:
Herb Tyler (LSU quarterback)
Rondel Mealy (LSU running back)
Larry Foster (LSU wideout, spent some time with Detroit Lions)
Travis Minor (FSU running back, spent some time in NFL)


Just missed:
Peyton Manning - we played Newman year after he graduated
Jake Delhomme - played Teurlings Catholic my Sr year (3 years after Jake)
Kevin Faulk - had we won i. first round of playoffs, would have played Carencro in 2nd round his senior year
Corey Webster - i’m 4 years older than him, but our HS are district rivals
Warrick Dunn - same HS as Minor, but his freshman year at FSU was my sophomore year in HS
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I was not a a basketball player. I am not overly tall nor uber athletic but for some reason, if I go with friends to a gym to shoot hoops or play in a 3 on 3 tournament with them, a famous basketball player will appear. It's like a fucking super power.

In pick up games on Syracuse campus I was on the same court with Derrick Coleman and Billy Owens (not at the same time).

In an outdoor Gus Macker 3 on 3 I was on the court with Sean Kemp. In another one we played against, and almost got into a fight with, Curtis Enis and his crew.

Later in life at Jacksonville University I met Artis Gilmore many times. Thank blue baby jesus I never had to try and play basketball with him because even in his older age he had the strongest grip of any human being I've ever met. It was unnatural. He would kill a normal human being fighting for a rebound.

None of those guys were giving it their all, except Enis -prick that he was, thank Woody. I also have always appreciated the fact I didn't get pregnant from Kemp.
 
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Nutriaitch said:
so in the coaching change thread i mentioned i played against Herb Tyler in High School.

so just curious who some of you midwestern guys (or the Tomato guy if he actually played and wasn’t on chess team or some shit) either actually played, or just missed playing against in High School.

Played against:
Herb Tyler (LSU quarterback)
Rondel Mealy (LSU running back)
Larry Foster (LSU wideout, spent some time with Detroit Lions)
Travis Minor (FSU running back, spent some time in NFL)


Just missed:
Peyton Manning - we played Newman year after he graduated
Jake Delhomme - played Teurlings Catholic my Sr year (3 years after Jake)
Kevin Faulk - had we won i. first round of playoffs, would have played Carencro in 2nd round his senior year
Corey Webster - i’m 4 years older than him, but our HS are district rivals
Warrick Dunn - same HS as Minor, but his freshman year at FSU was my sophomore year in HS
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I met Ja-Rule and AC Slater...does that count?
 
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I did actually play high school football against a guy who played in the NFL. His name was David Walker. Played at Syracuse in college and the Dolphins in the NFL.

He trucked my ass so bad in the first quarter of a game in 1988 that I like to tell people I invented rugby tackling for American football back then. I wanted no part of his shoulder pads after that first one.

:lol:
 
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The one who comes to mind is Treg Lee. He was academically ineligible, or Prop 48 or whatever it was called, as a freshman at OSU. Unfortunately, that allowed him to play in the intramural basketball tournament. A bunch of guys from my dorm (Haverfield) put together a team for shits & giggles. As the only guy on the team over six feet tall I was the center by default.

We show up at Larkins for our first game, no idea who the guys are on the other team, and we see this 6'8" giant warming up. We were just hoping we weren't playing that team (four games took place at once), but we weren't that lucky. Sure enough, we're playing Treg Lee. I'm 6'1" and no one recruited me to play basketball. Next thing I know I'm setting up for the jump ball with Treg Lee, and yes, we were both chuckling at the situation.

It went as expected. I flopped all night but never got a call, got dunked on more times than I can remember, didn't even consider attempting a shot, and we got destroyed. :lol:
 
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Jake said:
The one who comes to mind is Treg Lee. He was academically ineligible, or Prop 48 or whatever it was called, as a freshman at OSU. Unfortunately, that allowed him to play in the intramural basketball tournament. A bunch of guys from my dorm (Haverfield) put together a team for shits & giggles. As the only guy on the team over six feet tall I was the center by default.

We show up at Larkins for our first game, no idea who the guys are on the other team, and we see this 6'8" giant warming up. We were just hoping we weren't playing that team (four games took place at once), but we weren't that lucky. Sure enough, we're playing Treg Lee. I'm 6'1" and no one recruited me to play basketball. Next thing I know I'm setting up for the jump ball with Treg Lee, and yes, we were both chuckling at the situation.

It went as expected. I flopped all night but never got a call, got dunked on more times than I can remember, didn't even consider attempting a shot, and we got destroyed. :lol:
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Oh, I know that pain.

Same exact shit for me. I am 6’2” but was, theoretically, strong enough to lean on Kemp. :lol:

He wasn’t allowed to dunk and I could foul him all I wanted to. Once I could tell that big mother fucker was starting to get pissed I stopped that stupid shit real quick.

It was all I could do to move quick enough to foul him and he was twice my size. That level of athlete is just amazing to see in action.
 
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I was on the sideline to watch Randy Moss, Champ Bailey, Drew Brees, and Daunte Culpepper torch my defense. I think that Georgia team had Marcus Stroud and Richard Seymour on the DL, but I didn't play against them. Stroud made our 6'6" OT look small. Personally James Harrison was unblockable and DJ Durkin is an asshole that I would never let my kid play for.
 
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Played football against Deshawn Wynn, he went to Reading HS, then to UF and won the 2006 NC under Urban.

When I went to college at Hampton, it was stupid the amount of talent that would show up to play basketball. I'm not a basketball player, I preferred playing football, and basketball kept me in shape and active. But when you go play and out walks the VA Mr. Basketball AND Mr. Football Ron Curry who proceeds to play all 5 positions, and excel at them all. Michael(his wife was my classmate) and Marcus Vick would also come to our campus for pickup games on basketball and football, and just put on clinics throwing the ball. And Mike threw the hardest ball I've ever caught in my life! And then I got to watch Allen Iverson(aka Bubba Chuck- my personal all time favorite player) in a local tournament play a few of my friends who were decent hoopers in NYC, NJ and DC. He proceeded to drop 60pts in the 1st half:yow1:(the last 20 or so he just shot jumpers to make it competitive) and then sit down and sign autographs the rest of the game

And a funny side story, my buddy from college who was from Hampton, went to AI's HS alma mater, they played a little known QB from Warwick HS, named Michael Vick(everyone was talking about Ronald Curry at this time). Vick took off on a broken play, my buddy who was playing S went to tackle him in the open field and he said everything went black. When he opened his eyes, he saw Vick already in the end zone celebrating, and his teammates looking at him shaking their heads. My buddy had a big shoe print on his chest from when he got trucked, and then Vick proceeded to step on and then over him before sprinting to the endzone. My friend kept that jersey, even through all of the humility over the years, and ended up getting it signed when we ran into Mike on campus :lol:
 
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Jaxbuck said:
That level of athlete is just amazing to see in action.
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Larry Foster was the fastest human i have ever seen in person.

i had good speed (for attending a small catholic school in south Louisiana). I’d get beat, but wasn’t often i got just totally embarrassed.
but going against a NOLA area public school was just a whole different level.
i don’t think i could have kept up with him if you gave me a motorcycle.
 
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