OT - your most impressive athletic achievements

[Clonamery]

31 Gin & Orange Crush slammers before projectile vomit and blackout.

Yesterday?

 

[Clonamery]

High school -- 5x letterman (track, cross-country) ... was a starter on my sophomore football team and wish I'd stayed with it but switched to cross country as a junior to augment track. Ran one year of track in college.

What did you run in track? What HS? Time period?

 

[mosslost]

3x High-school champion in soccer (first team to do it while being composed by only freshmen)

one HS basketball championship (0 points and 2 assists and 6 rebounds during the whole tournament, lol)

member of the Rio de Janeiro U18 Football team as a WR.

First brazilian to play football in the Netherlands

pretty cool stuff, sports are awesome

 

[Tunescribe]

What did you run in track? What HS? Time period?

I grew up in Iowa, high school 1970s. Ran middle distance (half, quarter) individual and relays.

 

[JJR4884]

I made steamed mussels one day with freshly sliced habanero peppers. Later that evening I took my eye contacts out.

I have the world record of eye temperature rising to a smoldering 500 degrees F and then immediately dropping to 0 degrees Kelvin, so it felt.

Ran a 5:06 mile in high school. I'm still winded.

 

[fnordcircle]

Sucked at athletics. Didn't help that as a kid I was asthmatic, missing lots of school. Inhalers not invented. Asthma stopped so I came late to sports mid high school when most kids had been developing skills for years. Only thing I could do was play after school tackle football which I loved.

What the ****

You spent almost all of the 90s calling yourself a jock on the bosco list. Are you telling me you were lying on the internet?!?!

 

[fnordcircle]

Great achievement #2:

Took a called 3rd strike, giving us 2 outs and no runners on in the bottom of the 9th and the next kid up popped up and we lost and were no longer undefeated.

 

[patsinthesnow]

HS golf captain. Played in college but gave it up. I wasn't particularly passionate (or professional. My golf etiquette was lacking). Never saw the point of excessively reading puts, shots, practice swings, etc. Had an unconventional inside/out swing. Coach defimitely wasn't thrilled with my style.

Football was my passion but golf was my talent. Undersized white guys who probably run a 6.0 aren't hot football commodities.

Speaking of golf, how about Tiger? The man looks old. Shame seeing your childhood sports idol (other than Tom) crumble this fast:



Brady 39. Tiger 41. Tom looks 30, Tiger looks 55+.

 

[mitsudriver]

Played football, basketball, and ran track in high school. Started at WR and DB in football and shooting guard in basketball. Did high jump, long jump, 4x100, and 4x200 relays in track. Made state playoffs most years but nothing really noteworthy. Did jump off of Fontana Dam in NC once. Far enough down to scream, catch your breath, and scream again before hitting the water. Also, could ride Deals Gap Tail of the Dragon's 11 miles in around 11 minutes on my R1. Not allowed to do any of that fun stuff anymore.

 

[dtbrks]

played HS football and B-ball, but i was a late bloomer (so i think). Never the most athletic, strength has always been my best attribute. Bench PR: 425lb, Squat PR: 505, DL PR: 505. And yes, i have witnesses

 

[Tony2046]

I loved playing sports in HS but I basically sucked. Made a couple of all-star teams in little league and got run over daily in football but both were good times. I wrestled but I think I only won one match.

While in the Army I completed Air Assault school which was probably the most physically demanding thing I've done in my life. To get into the school you had to race 6 miles in combat gear which included a backpack and a fake M16. Out of 300 people I got the sixth spot out of the 65 available. Immediately after the run we (the 65 qualifiers) had to run through an obstacle course in combat uniform, soaking wet and covered in mud. In between each obstacle there were lines of people waiting to get on the next obstacle and during the wait you had to either do push ups, sit ups, flutter kicks, run in place or jumping jacks depending on what the drill instructor commanded. We spent approximately two hours on that course and by the time we finished we were down to 45-50 people. Immediately after the obstacle course we again got coated with mud and began to run. The rule was simple. If you fall out of formation and behind the trailing instructor you're out if stay in the formation you're in. They ran until they cut us down to thirty people. We lost the majority of the people after we passed the starting point. Everyone was thinking "we're almost done......I can see the finish line", but they kept going and a flood of people just said "F this" and fell out. The next day I woke up and could barely move.

To finish the school which was physical all the way through you had to complete a 15 mile timed tank trail march/jog/run/fall/trip. I made it and graduated which included getting my Air Assault badge slammed into my chest without the dammits (pins into the skin) by a hard core airborne ranger. (blood wings). Hoorah.

After that I picked up my multimeter and went back to troubleshooting radars.

 

[Kontradiction]

Four year starter in varsity football at my high school. Played both offense (TE) and defense (DE) and played on the punt and kickoff return teams my sophomore and junior years. Three year varsity starter in basketball at PF. With football, I had some smaller schools sniffing around for scholarships but nothing came of it and my playing career ended. I actually did some boxing after high school but that was more for fitness purposes (though it was a rush to get into the ring with someone else for a few rounds).

 

[Uncle Rico]

Still working my way towards that moment of glory ...

 

[Galeb]

Still working my way towards that moment of glory ...

Didn't you throw a football over a mountain?

 

[Va_Pats_Fan]

These days, getting out of bed and downstairs without pulling something beats anything I did in the past.

 

[Uncle Rico]

Didn't you throw a football over a mountain?

Yeah --- pre-season though.

 

[Palm Beach Pats Fan]

I grew up playing as lot of basketball and was a really good shooter when I was young, but not much of an athlete. I played HS ball and did OK, though. I once had to guard Scott Skiles (yeah, I'm old) who went to Michigan St. and then to the pros. He scored a ton on me but I also did OK.

I didn't play college ball but I did hang out and play a lot of pickup games at the student gym at a major D1 school. My fondest memory is actually from that.

One time I was in a pickup game and one of my teammates, a tall athletic guy, started grumbling at me after I missed an outside shot early in the game. He sort of froze me out, our team lost, and he yelled at me afterward that I didn't even know what a good shot was.

I had played with a few of the other guys who were on the court and one of them chimed in" He can make even three pointers routinely, like a layup".

The guy ragging on me said that had to be ******** (he probably said that since, as I said, I don't look athletic). I told him to come over to an empty court for a minute and rebound for me. I started shooting 3-pointers. Swish. Swish. Swish. Swish. I got on a roll like I hardly remember. I made over 30 3-pointers in a row and I think I convinced him!

Shooting later came in handy as a carnival skill, as my kids got quite a stuffed animal collection.

 

[Joker]

this one is easy....having sex with my ex-wife. A combination of the triathlon and an eating glass competition.

 

[Patjew]

I dropped 47 in a HS summer basketball league game. I was a PG and normally liked to pass but I was trying to prove a point to my HS coach, the *******. I assume I had negative assists that game. Not bad for a jew-nior.

 

[scout]

I once played on a rec league team in San Diego( I was in my late 20's), that had 2 NBA players on it. Not retired. One was the infamous Marvin " Bad News" Barnes, who I could tell you some stories about,but I won't. He had been released following yet another drug suspension. Was still close to his prime and was working out in SD trying to catch on with the San Diego Clippers( b4 they moved to LA). The other guy was a guard named Stan P.(Polish name-no way I can spell it),who was on the Clippers roster and played briefly with us while rehabbing an injury. Both guys played again in the NBA after that.
But get this: we were the WORST team in the league. A lot of former NBA players in that league. I guess they liked the weather. I was the PG. One guy I remember on another team was Cornell Green, who had been a really good power forward- maybe Milwaukee? He was only a couple years retired and he just killed us. Some serious comp. in that league. Don't know what I was doing playing with all those guys lol.

Kudos to Patsfan in Philly for the bus story (classic). Worked with a guy (6'6") who said the YMCA in Providence would have pick up games all day long. He would go one on one with Bad News Barnes.