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Old 10-26-2009, 04:05 PM   #1
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this guy had a couple moves

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Old 10-26-2009, 04:08 PM   #2
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There's something about having played pick-up football as a kid.

If I have any toughness in me, it's from those moments.


== Six on six, neighborhood kids, everybody pretty much go out for passes, nobody's blocking on the line but you can rush on five mississippi. We got three plays to get to the tree, then we get a first down and we get three more plays to get to the end of the field.

Sammy got cut on a rock.

Is it bleeding?

A little

Sammy let me see that. Oh that's nothing. That's through your jeans. You walkin OK? OK, spit on it, clean it out a little, limp real bad on the next play, and the play after that they won't cover ya, and we'll throw it to you.

== This one time, there was another guy named Tony, on the other team; and he was not a big guy, but he was a little older and taller than a lot of our guys. You play neighborhood ball, you know, a lot of different age guys will come out for that.

Well this Tony took the ball on a kickoff, and he decided to see what would happen if he just busted down the middle of the field at full gallop. Instead of running it back by dodging, he would just barrel down, arms flailing, big war face on. And it worked; once he was at full run, nobody wanted to do the simple job of being the tackling dummy. Just putting your body in his way and taking the force of that full-on. (and nobody was smart enough to take him low...)

So, the next kickoff he decides to do his galloping run again. and I realize, I'm gonna have to do this: I have to step up to duty, and hit him, because if somebody doesn't stop him he'll just keep doing it.

I put my shoulder down and hit him at a slight angle. B-O-O-M. I don't know what it looked like, but to me, and to him, it was one of those highlight hits. He went down in a heap. The ball rolled away. I got up. Two minutes later he got up.

There you go: that's what's manly about American Football.
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Old 10-26-2009, 04:42 PM   #3
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here's some of the ugly. Of course whoever made the first video included some soccer fights which are notoriously wussfests.

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Old 10-26-2009, 04:45 PM   #4
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and here is one of the most amazing bits of skill ever.



and some more

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Old 10-26-2009, 04:59 PM   #5
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oh fuck, lookout. how about a broken bone gore douchechill warning on that!?
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Old 10-26-2009, 05:51 PM   #6
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broken bone gore douchechill warning

I didn't find the Cambell/Lambert goal line collision, but for sheer terror you can't touch Theisman/Taylor.

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Old 10-27-2009, 07:05 PM   #7
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oh fuck, lookout. how about a broken bone gore douchechill warning on that!?
Sorry, didn't even think about it. You did watch the good clips though, right?
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Old 10-26-2009, 05:54 PM   #8
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seen that....saw it live.....not watching it again today, thanks.
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Old 10-26-2009, 06:01 PM   #9
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Me too. It physically hurts to watch that. I remember getting blindsided by a replay I didn't see coming...
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Old 10-26-2009, 06:03 PM   #10
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I almost threw up.

Damn.
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Old 10-26-2009, 06:46 PM   #11
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I'm not saying soccer's any more manly, just I really find football like a huge pantomime. A wussy girly pantomime. They even have girly hair. And knickerbockers. And they need a break every ten seconds. To restyle it. :p
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Old 10-26-2009, 08:28 PM   #12
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I'm not saying soccer's any more manly, just I really find football like a huge pantomime. A wussy girly pantomime. They even have girly hair. And knickerbockers. And they need a break every ten seconds. To restyle it. :p
Go to one of the pee wee games Ive been going to all season - the sound of these 10 year olds smashing into each other is bone chilling. And they hurt each other... wind knocked out, teeth knocked out.... coach picks them up, dusts them off, smacks them in the head and they GET BACK OUT THERE!! Tougher than woodpecker lips these little kids are, I tell ya.
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Old 10-26-2009, 06:56 PM   #13
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this is a troll you're perpetrating. we all know it, but we enjoy it just the same.
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Old 10-26-2009, 07:45 PM   #14
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good. I'm in one of those moods today. But damn, I'm sure I could take it more seriously if they didn't look so silly. I'm really trying to get into this whole football lark, you know ...when in Rome and all that.....
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Old 10-26-2009, 08:08 PM   #15
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"perpetrating a troll"? is that, like, a hanging offense?
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