Football Players

gt02 said:
I forgot to mention, one of them pushed a girl to the floor that was out there playing.
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That's kind of a no win situation for the guys. You let up a little and your either being disrespectful to the girl or getting harassed because she just took you baseline. You go full speed and knock her down while you're setting a pick or posting up and now all of the sudden you're the jackass who doesn't care that there's a girl on the court.

Either way don't step onto the A court with the FB players unless you're willing to deal with that level of intensity. I remember watching Kelly Rhino run the point at SAC during the FB off season and thinking that I'd better stick to a different court.
 
gt02 said:
Played ball at the GT gym today with the football players. Those guys are ridiculous athletes but also ridiculous hot heads.
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What's the point of putting this on a pubilc message board? I'm sure a lot of us have stories that are better left told in private.
 
I played church ball for a few years, and man! do I know what you mean. We'd always begin with a wholesome prayer. But as soon as the game was on, it was war. Dirty play, hatred of other players, crazy rivalries between players on the same team, poor sportsmanship of a thousand sorts. We had an old geezer who called himself our coach, although nobody paid a bit of attention to him. He'd yell at the refs (unpaid volunteers, IIRC) and the other team as if he had the deed to his house bet on the outcome of the game. When I quit playing I missed some things, but there was also a sense of relief.
 
Playing basketball with some football players at Tech in independent intra murals and pick-up was a pleasure. It was the 70's, Pepper was there, so they were not so intense as to bully us. Let's just say it was a more mellow time.

But, believe me, some of the best competition I've seen was from those guys - Reggie Wilkes, David Sims, Rudy Allen, Freeman Colbert, Don Breece, Eliott Price - they could play. Wilkes and Sims were basketball stars on championship teams at Southwest and Decatur. With all due respect, I know Reggie could have been a basketball starter at Tech. Those guys were just great - but if Lucious Sanford came out on the court, it was time to go home. Not much game, but he would absolutely kill you. Drive in on Lucious and you were clotheslined without the benefit of helmet or pads. That man was tough!
 
I remember one of the tall white guys who couldn't play on the BBall team right before Cremins got there quit and dominated intramurals. Oh well, I guess you have to get something out of being 7 ft.
 
gt02 said:
Played ball at the GT gym today with the football players. Those guys are ridiculous athletes but also ridiculous hot heads. I saw them almost get in two seperate fights while there, including a certain unnamed player from the secondary pushing/punching someone, and a certain transfer running back picking fights with two people ~ 50 - 60 lbs smaller than him and inches shorter than him.

I cheer for these guys on the field but tough to watch.
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God, I remember a game with Tony Lubischer, Joe Malta, Red McDaniel and a few other linemen back in the early 70s. They knocked the crap out of us. You learned to just get out of the way.
 
Ditto here, too

Had to give up the Military Base Leagues for the same thing.....

Glad to know someone else has been there...



techfowl said:
I'm 39 and don't play church league B-Ball or Flag Football anymore because I kept embarrassing my wife by taking it way too seriously.

I still have a guy at the old church in Augusta, GA that wouldn't talk to me even a year later because I was such a jerk on the field. I'm one of those who can't keep it in perspective once the game starts, so I finally learned not to do it at all.
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chilidogking said:
What's the point of putting this on a pubilc message board? I'm sure a lot of us have stories that are better left told in private.
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what's the harm in posting it on a message board dedicated to Georgia Tech, in a section on Football. Seemed like it elicited some good conversation to me.
 
gt02 said:
Yeah, he was one of the primary instigators. He actually got into a shoving match with one of the other football players. I forgot to mention, one of them pushed a girl to the floor that was out there playing.

Regardless of how they are "trained," there is no excuse for it. And all of them weren't d-bags. There were a couple that were pretty cool and telling their buddies to chill out.
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Pretty stupid to call out players by name on a message board for any reason unless you're looking for some kind of discipline/action to be taken. My point earlier wasn't tic, don't play pickup games with varsity athletes unless you're up to it. Even if they don't get worked up they are likely to pound you physically just because that's how they play sports. One of my best friends played college ball at Western Carolina in the day as did his brother. I played 2 on 2 with them and another guy at Cameron Indoor one day and almost ended up in the hospital. Most of us simply aren't up to that level of play...and girls need to stay off those courts.
 
What are you? Some kind of wusswad? If you have a problem with a dude respecting your manhood, take him up on it and punch him in the head. I'd rather get my butt kicked standing up for myself than whimpering off to an internet board, hoping for sympathy.
 
sthorfinnr said:
What are you? Some kind of wusswad? If you have a problem with a dude respecting your manhood, take him up on it and punch him in the head. I'd rather get my butt kicked standing up for myself than whimpering off to an internet board, hoping for sympathy.
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Do you know how to read? Did I say he did anything to me? Either you are trying to be a jerk, or just plain incompetent.
 
gt02 said:
Do you know how to read? Did I say he did anything to me? Either you are trying to be a jerk, or just plain incompetent.
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He isn't trying; it's a gift. If you are new to Stingtalk then I would like to introduce you to a useful feature called "Ignore."
 
In defense of "Football Players", I would like to submit that I have played basketball with plenty of over-intense jerks since leaving GT. They weren't football or basketball players, at least not at a college level.

I have not problem with someone being competitive. But we had one guy undercut our best player on a breakaway in a company league PRACTICE. What he did would have gotten him thrown out of an NBA game. The fact that he did it in a meaningless practice, in a meaningless league makes it all the worse.

If you have that little control over your emotions and that little judgment of your actions, then you should stay off any court IMO. (I think he realized what he did and also realized he was about ten seconds from a beatdown since he yelled "Time to quit" and ran off the court immediately while the rest of us were checking out our friend. His teammates were apologetic and embarrassed.)

OTOH, I shot around with football players who were low key and even helpful, offering "coaching" advice.

There is a difference between being competitive and losing all sense of propriety in a game. The inability to distinguish that difference is irrespective of whether you play NCAA sports or not IMO.
 
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