Anarchy99
Footballguy
I am starting a thread today because my son's final high school basketball season is starting today. After 22 years of coaching, spectating, and supporting our 5 kids across a ton of sports (and never giving it much thought), this is essentially the last rodeo for us. After literally THOUSANDS of games, matches, meets, tournaments, and competitions we find ourselves with just a few months left to relish and enjoy what has been a long journey to get this far . . . only to realize that there isn't much journey left.
Our families have athletic bloodlines. A collegiate All American football player. An Olympic swimmer. A college scholarship baseball player. I qualified for the professional bowling tour. (Spoiler alert) One of my sons is a card carrying member of the PGA.
Off the top, the sports the kids have participated in I can quickly remember include baseball, basketball, football, soccer, wrestling, lacrosse, track and field, gymnastics, softball, cheerleading, skiing, and golf.
To put things in perspective, when the first of our kids started playing T-ball, Bill Belichick was an assistant coach for the Jets. LeBron James was in junior high school. The Padres were in the World Series. Seinfeld was still on TV.
Anyway, since this thread is going to serve as therapy for me, I wanted to open things up for people to share their personal stories about their kids and their athletic teams and pursuits. I will be posting stories from days gone by . . . from the thrill of victory to the agony of defeat (as the saying goes). Lots and lots of memories . . . some of them great, some of them not so great. Some of them majestic, some of them tragic.
Please feel free to post about whatever special moments you remember, things you were proud of, funny occurrences, times when your kids were little and picked dandelions in the outfield, etc. They don't all have to be about hitting home runs to win a game or scoring a goal to win the league championship.
Our families have athletic bloodlines. A collegiate All American football player. An Olympic swimmer. A college scholarship baseball player. I qualified for the professional bowling tour. (Spoiler alert) One of my sons is a card carrying member of the PGA.
Off the top, the sports the kids have participated in I can quickly remember include baseball, basketball, football, soccer, wrestling, lacrosse, track and field, gymnastics, softball, cheerleading, skiing, and golf.
To put things in perspective, when the first of our kids started playing T-ball, Bill Belichick was an assistant coach for the Jets. LeBron James was in junior high school. The Padres were in the World Series. Seinfeld was still on TV.
Anyway, since this thread is going to serve as therapy for me, I wanted to open things up for people to share their personal stories about their kids and their athletic teams and pursuits. I will be posting stories from days gone by . . . from the thrill of victory to the agony of defeat (as the saying goes). Lots and lots of memories . . . some of them great, some of them not so great. Some of them majestic, some of them tragic.
Please feel free to post about whatever special moments you remember, things you were proud of, funny occurrences, times when your kids were little and picked dandelions in the outfield, etc. They don't all have to be about hitting home runs to win a game or scoring a goal to win the league championship.
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