OT - your most impressive athletic achievements

[Tony2046]

Man that's awesome. Thank you for your service.

Thanks. Here's the thing Jim. When I joined the Army (1988) I was going nowhere fast and the Army sent me to school, gave me the equivalent of a technical electronics degree and trained me to troubleshoot and repair radar systems which gave me everything I have today. So I owe the Army a lot. I never had to fight in a war or go to Afghanistan or Iraq although we were told we were going to deploy to desert storm. We ended up not going because basically the war was over within two weeks. So I prefer not to be thanked for my service because our young men and women today are doing such tough enlistments that make my six years look like a vacation.

 

[Joey007]

I do have a funny sports memory. Junior high football: I was on defense, and had the QB throw the ball right to me, with no one next to me. Could've gone the other way to the house had I picked it off. A once in a lifetime opportunity for little, unathletic Joey.

So naturally, I got caught up in the moment and batted (or basically punched) the ball to the ground like a volleyball.

 

[Joey007]

Won town's little league title in 1981. I pitched and played shortstop.

I won my town's little league title once, too.

Only difference was I played right field.

And if you're familiar to what the position of RF means in little league baseball, I need not say more.

 

[jimnance]

The teammate he attacked with a tire iron might think differently........

Yeah I knew about that before I met him. But I can only go on my personal experiences with him. He was genuinely nice to all of us. All the time. I worked out with him probably 5x week for a month, played a bunch of pickup games with him,was a teammate for a few games in a rec league and hung out and drank beer a bunch of times with him.
Also if you talk to anyone who knew him, plus all I've read about him,the tire iron assault was totally out of character for him. He was a very likeable dude who got along with EVERYONE. But a very irresponsible guy who never grew up. I'm not condoning that college incident, don't know much about it- but it seems to be an anomaly in his life.
Racial tensions was much greater back then- but he had a lot of white friends. When I knew him,his best friend was a former Italian professional soccer player who was around 5'5"- the 2 were inseperable- the 6'9" Barnes and 5'5" white guy. Again, I'm not giving him a pass for that tire iron thing- that's serious- he could a killed that kid. But that was out of character from what I remember of Marvin.

 

[jimnance]

Thanks. Here's the thing Jim. When I joined the Army (1988) I was going nowhere fast and the Army sent me to school, gave me the equivalent of a technical electronics degree and trained me to troubleshoot and repair radar systems which gave me everything I have today. So I owe the Army a lot. I never had to fight in a war or go to Afghanistan or Iraq although we were told we were going to deploy to desert storm. We ended up not going because basically the war was over within two weeks. So I prefer not to be thanked for my service because our young men and women today are doing such tough enlistments that make my six years look like a vacation.

Sorry man,you didn't know that when you enlisted. So whether you like it or not, we are thanking you for your service. You still gave up 4 years or more for your country and you COULD have been deployed somewhere. It's always a possibility. So again, thank you Tony for your service.

 

[pazrul72]

Fantastic thread idea and the responses have been wonderful. I was the fat chubby late bloomer who never did anything until sophomore year of high school. Never did anything of note until my senior year and it was in the spring time intersquad scrimmage so not particularly important. I was the second string tackle on the white team and only got to play half of the second quarter and some of the third. We were down 21-0 but came storming back and the high light of my football career was part of it.
On the 42 yard line left hash mark power sweep right was the play call. Had a DT lined up inside shoulder and I was able to get a good push on him so he went to the ground before I pulled out to the right RB behind me. LB came flying over the top of the line looking to cut off the outside. Still fat and slow I was able to leap out and get just enough of a piece of him that the RB got the edge and took off. 42 yard TD that tied it up. Got two critical blocks and a fond memory for the rest of my life.

 

[bormio]

Cycling up Passo Stelvio in northern Italy (a 16 mile climb) in just over 2 hours. Not necessarily impressive, but spectacular.

 

[wolverinejoe80]

in my heyday, i made several game winners in a local pick up games. usually nobody guards me. i'm left alone in the corner. i just let it fly then boom. my team wins and i get to stay in the game. better than sex

 

[WinstonSmith]

in my heyday, i made several game winners in a local pick up games. usually nobody guards me. i'm left alone in the corner. i just let it fly then boom. my team wins and i get to stay in the game. better than sex[/QUOTE]

You've been married for well over 10 years, haven't you?

 

[wolverinejoe80]

oh and i ran 6 miles nonstop on the treadmill. 6 mile per hour. i thought i was gonna die.

 

[wolverinejoe80]

game winner at Y noon game with bunch of 40 somethings > sex

 

[bormio]

oh and i ran 6 miles nonstop on the treadmill. 6 mile per hour. i thought i was gonna die.

Running on the treadmill for an hour - I'd rather die.

 

[mosslost]

 

[Nikolai]

The school was at Fort Hood. I was part of a small Air Defense unit (166th ord) and 1st Cav was right across the field from us. My unit went to the field maybe one or two weeks a year and even then it was port johns etc... OTOH 1st Cav lived in the field 6 months out of the year and they were nuts when they got back but fun to party with. Anyways I was allowed to go because it was offered to pretty much anyone stationed at Fort Hood. If I had been stationed anywhere else they would not have allowed me to go because I wasn't in a combat unit. I was a 24K which later switched to 27K.

I actually didn't know that about Fort Hood. I've always associated Air Assault with Fort Campbell exclusively, so I learned something tonight. I have to offer my condolences, though. I hear things about Fort Hood.

Seriously, though, that's a great opportunity to get to do that. As for the rarity of going into the field...I got my TA-50 at Fort Belvoir and my PSG told me to tuck it in the back of my closet and forget about it. Eight months here and he wasn't lying.

8 miles in July is no joke. That's salt stained pits weather.

The weird thing is it was in Arizona at 0800, which isn't usually TOO bad. We had a hell of a thunderstorm roll through just before so it was a little more humid than it would usually be. Thanks, stupid nature...

I tend to perform better in heat and humidity. If I would have had to do that in cold weather, I'm not sure I would have done nearly as well.

 

[mosey threetupu]

1200+ points in three varsity hoops seasons. High games of 41 pts 30 boards. Played with or against (and held my own) a number of big time D1 college hoops players and NBA vets Travis Best and Marcus Camby.

 

[Seacoast Fan]

Three year starter in HS for hockey team, and won the league championship sophomore year. Nothing beats that at that age. Unfortunately, most of our talent was in the upper classes so jr and sr years were kinda grim.
Just a half stride too slow for D2. But in law school played in an intermural league in Boston with all the grad schools and that was excellent hockey. A lot of D1 players, one guy from the US Olympic team that won the silver medal in 72.
At the same time my law school team played in the BU intramural league. We played frats and undergrad teams. We had a couple former D1 players as well. Before the first game we were playing some underclass team and we could hear them in the next locker room brgging about what they were going to do to the geeks from the law school. The law school geeks then proceeded to go out and just blew their ****ing doors off. LOL.
I still skate in a league. I just left an over 35 league because it was too quick and chippy for me now. I skate in a lower level league which is really beneath my level quite honestly but I'm 58 and I have some friends on the team and I play a stay-at-home D. On Sunday we lost the league championship 2-1 in large part because late in the game I caught a rut, fell down like Sanchez in the butt fumble and the guy went in alone and scored.

 

[Stumpy]

Not a whole lot.


Scored the insurance goal in our lacrosse city championship game at 16.
A coast to coast......p.s. I was NOT a goal scorer haha.

Starting Centre in football when we went to city championship two years in a row......we lost both. One on a last second pick 6 for 80 yards. ouch.

Hiked a small mountain two years ago. Minimal scramble. 7,800 feet.


Aaaaaaand once scored on my own net in soccer.

 

[realtime]

State elementary school and state junior high school chess champ.

Starter on Final Four intramural men's hoops team and champion co-ed hoops team in college.

 

[Ian]

I was a wide receiver in high school and caught my first (and only) touchdown of my career off of a halfback pass in the final game of the season, which came in a year where we finished 0-8. We were already down by 28+ and I played it cool like I had been there before and tried to appear calm as I ran over to the sideline. However, I then proceeded to forget to go out there for kickoff coverage (I was the contain man on the outside) and got screamed at as the other team ran it back up the sideline on my side for a big return. It was fantastic

 

[wolverinejoe80]

in 1st grade i was the fastest kid. i was so much faster than anybody else. i won competition. i thought i was gonna fly.

but then i got fat. fat as hell by the 4th grade. pizza killed me.