Who here has played/play the greatest game on Earth?

#76
#76
Lettered 4 years and started 3 years in high school. Played DE in a 5-4 defense which is like an out side linebacker in a 3-4 today. Played Tackle on offense, played in the bad old days when we played both ways. We won the Optimist Bowl my junior year.
 
#77
#77
QB in Jr high and High School tore my knee and sholder up pretty bad.I recieved a few scholarship offers to some smaller schools but i knew i would never make it with my knee. Its been a long time ago, but when it gets cold or rains i hurt like hell.

Side note: I wanted to play for UT so bad, i knew i was never good enough, plus me and Peyton are close to the same age, needless to say i would have never made the team...lol
 
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#78
#78
TheVol said:
You can also play your whole life and know nothing about the game except what a coach told you to do. A lot of football players know very little about the game. Just because you played doesn't mean you can coach.
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:yes:
 
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KillaRed54 said:
Kind of both. I was just seeing some comments being made on this board and on rivals and I was just wondering is some of the posters were making these comments for what I thought was stupid because they never played football. I'm not saying if you have never played football you shouldn't post on a football forum site. People have the right to comment on something if they make a legitimate statement or not. I was just seeing if the people that were making ludacris statements had any background knowledge of what they were talking about.
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What is the criteria for a ludicrous statement from a football player's point of view?
 
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HoundDog4954 said:
Lettered 4 years and started 3 years in high school. Played DE in a 5-4 defense which is like an out side linebacker in a 3-4 today. Played Tackle on offense, played in the bad old days when we played both ways. We won the Optimist Bowl my junior year.
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Optimist Bowl (Knoxville)
1956: Young 23, Clinton 6
1957: Knoxville Central 14, Science Hill 14
1958: Harriman 19, Knoxville Central 14
1959: Bradley Central 13, Knoxville Young 0
1960: Knoxville Central 21, Knoxville East 7
1963: Morristown 13, Young 7
1964: Knoxville Young 28, Maryville 7
1965: Knoxville Central 7, Fulton 0
1966: Morristown 14, Holston 13
1967: Fulton 27, Morristown 6
1968: Bearden 27, Doyle 0
1969: Austin-East 21, Red Bank 7
1970: Knoxville Central 22, Church Hill 6
1976: Fulton 26, Cocke County 0

Which year?
 
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doozer said:
this post is about being on a team, not playing football. you don't even have had to played a sport to know what it's like to be on a team.
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And I agree with you here like I said I think our arguement got a little off track.

But would you say that if someone has never been on a team in anything. Not on a team for work, a group in school to do an assignment, etc would be able to preach about team work effectively?

What the other poster was saying is that only athletes know what its like to be down by 10 in the forth quarter and they have to score twice to win the game in six minutes (adversity if anyone hasn't picked up on this yet). To where in a business a similar but still different situation is a business team trying to work to finish a deadline.
 
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TheVol said:
You can also play your whole life and know nothing about the game except what a coach told you to do. A lot of football players know very little about the game. Just because you played doesn't mean you can coach.
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Speaking of coaching.
This reminds me of a bone head play I did in 8th grade on a punt I blocked.I blocked a punt on the opponents(lets say 13)I can't remember.I was taught to jump on ball and cover it up,I could have very easily picked it up and ran it in but I was taught to jump and cover.
 
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Business said:
What is the criteria for a ludicrous statement from a football player's point of view?
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For example someone on Rivals kept stating us vol fans need to stop bashing crompton. He is the only player with NFL talent on the team and he ruined his draft status returning for his senior year. Is this ludicrous enough for you?
 
#84
#84
I actually just got home from one tonight. I had to go up against my old team.
 
#85
#85
KillaRed54 said:
For example someone on Rivals kept stating us vol fans need to stop bashing crompton. He is the only player with NFL talent on the team and he ruined his draft status returning for his senior year. Is this ludicrous enough for you?
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:blink:

I think all us Vol fans, football player or non-football player, can agree that that might be in the top 5 for dumbest things we've ever heard.
 
#86
#86
KillaRed54 said:
And I agree with you here like I said I think our arguement got a little off track.

But would you say that if someone has never been on a team in anything. Not on a team for work, a group in school to do an assignment, etc would be able to preach about team work effectively?

What the other poster was saying is that only athletes know what its like to be down by 10 in the forth quarter and they have to score twice to win the game in six minutes (adversity if anyone hasn't picked up on this yet). To where in a business a similar but still different situation is a business team trying to work to finish a deadline.
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then why have an opinion on anything you've never physically, mentally, or spiritually done before?

that's the point.
 
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nickknx865 said:
Optimist Bowl (Knoxville)
1956: Young 23, Clinton 6
1957: Knoxville Central 14, Science Hill 14
1958: Harriman 19, Knoxville Central 14
1959: Bradley Central 13, Knoxville Young 0
1960: Knoxville Central 21, Knoxville East 7
1963: Morristown 13, Young 7
1964: Knoxville Young 28, Maryville 7
1965: Knoxville Central 7, Fulton 0
1966: Morristown 14, Holston 13
1967: Fulton 27, Morristown 6
1968: Bearden 27, Doyle 0
1969: Austin-East 21, Red Bank 7
1970: Knoxville Central 22, Church Hill 6
1976: Fulton 26, Cocke County 0

Which year?
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It was 1970 I think, but it wasn't in Knoxville it was in Shelbyville. I played at Charlotte and we beat Whitehouse 18 -0.
 
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KillaRed54 said:
And I agree with you here like I said I think our arguement got a little off track.

But would you say that if someone has never been on a team in anything. Not on a team for work, a group in school to do an assignment, etc would be able to preach about team work effectively?

What the other poster was saying is that only athletes know what its like to be down by 10 in the forth quarter and they have to score twice to win the game in six minutes (adversity if anyone hasn't picked up on this yet). To where in a business a similar but still different situation is a business team trying to work to finish a deadline.
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Red: If you don't succeed, you lose the game and go home.

Blue: If you don't succeed, you lose your job, lose your income, fall behind on bills, etc.

Yeah, it's different alright.
 
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#89
And by the way back to doozer's statement and other posters statements I know not all football players make great coaches. I think it just can give them an advantage if they are taught the right way to play. However, if someone that has never played before studies hard the schemes, formations, and football knowledge in general they could become an incredible coach. It all comes down to how hard you work.
 
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KillaRed54 said:
For example someone on Rivals kept stating us vol fans need to stop bashing crompton. He is the only player with NFL talent on the team and he ruined his draft status returning for his senior year. Is this ludicrous enough for you?
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it could have been a comment from somebody who played football or somebody who hasn't. either way, it's still an idiotic thing to say.

that's the other point.
 
#91
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KillaRed54 said:
For example someone on Rivals kept stating us vol fans need to stop bashing crompton. He is the only player with NFL talent on the team and he ruined his draft status returning for his senior year. Is this ludicrous enough for you?
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Sounds like sarcasm to me. My mom knows Crompton doesn't have the skill for the pros.
 
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HoundDog4954 said:
It was 1970 I think, but it wasn't in Knoxville it was in Shelbyville. I played at Charlotte and we beat Whitehouse 18 -0.
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Oh. Upon further mining of the HSFBDB, it appears that a number of bowls back then were called the Optimist Bowl.

Confusing, really.
 
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Business said:
Red: If you don't succeed, you lose the game and go home.

Blue: If you don't succeed, you lose your job, lose your income, fall behind on bills, etc.

Yeah, it's different alright.
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lol I know the similarity was facing issues with lack of time. And on a side note both are very similar if it is the pros. If you lose in football you can lose you job, income and fall behind on the bills:)
 
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KillaRed54 said:
Kind of both. I was just seeing some comments being made on this board and on rivals and I was just wondering is some of the posters were making these comments for what I thought was stupid because they never played football. I'm not saying if you have never played football you shouldn't post on a football forum site. People have the right to comment on something if they make a legitimate statement or not. I was just seeing if the people that were making ludacris statements had any background knowledge of what they were talking about.
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It would seem to me, with all of your knowledge of the game, you wouldn't have to ask.
 
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SamRebel35 said:
Started for Maryville at MLB for about half the season my junior year and started the whole season my senior year at Sam. Won 3 state championships. I played all together for 12 years if you count grass hopper, pee wee, and midget leagues. Lol.
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Did you play with Cade Thompson and Harrison Woodard?????
 
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doozer said:
then why have an opinion on anything you've never physically, mentally, or spiritually done before?

that's the point.
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you can still have an opinion. I am just trying to figure out where your basis of your opinion originates from. If you have done something physically your opinion is from experience. If someone told you how hard a practice was then your opinion can generate from this. In the end someone will always disagree with you. It gets funny when people start getting angry from someone disagreeing with their opinion on the forums.
 
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