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rockaction

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It's not just basketball. Does anyone have a unique story? A great sports or life accomplishment that should be noted? Someone who just -- by virtue of being who they are -- is talked about, discussed, becomes legendary in you and your friends' eyes just by mere mention? It can go from hip-hop to bingo to morality to the seemingly mundane but difficult. Just would be interested in the story. The unrecognized are sometimes the most interesting and flawed. What say you for the underdogs that will never be recorded but left a mark?

:popcorn: Leave a story.

 
VA703 said:
in high school I once scored 4 touchdowns in one game
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Cool. Good work.

Could be anything. Sports-related, life-related. Just looking for a blank space for people to share things that otherwise go unmentioned. Mentors. Friends. Parents. Sexcapades. Anything. Free flow.

eta* Guess I should explain myself better. I love New Journalism. I'm sort of always interested in those things that bubble up from the surface without top-down planning. I think anything unique, like the post/recent article (?) about a tired grandfather, caring for his adopted son, sliding along the ice and driving into a snowbank inspires me. That's about it. Anything interesting in your life that deserves mention, I guess.

 
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One day, I asked my high school art teacher if she had a bush in front of the whole class and I was a comedic legend amongst my high school peers for a few days.

 
I once scored 5 goals in one game in youth soccer. People* still talk about it to this day.

*Me and my Dad

 
In elementary school I could carry the rock all recess without being tackled in 'Smear the Q***r'. It was a combination of speed, elusiveness, and a powerful swivel-hip move that the other youngsters could not conquer.

Of course, I now feel bad about what we called the game.

 
Long Ball Larry said:
rockaction said:
like the post/recent article (?) about a tired grandfather, caring for his adopted son, sliding along the ice and driving into a snowbank inspires me.
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what?!
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Yeah, there was a story or a post recently that I read -- I'm not sure which -- about a grandfather raising his adopted grandson (oh, I think it might have been AV Club or SB Nation) and he would get so tired from his job duties and raising the child that he fell asleep at the wheel one morning and drove into a snowbank, nearly killing himself. But he lived.

That's the sort of stuff I'm hoping for here. Post playground triumphs if you will, but I'm sort of looking for everyday heroes, underdogs with flaws, fleeting greatness, etc., that don't ever get mention. I'm trying to make this the place to do it. No judgments. If you scored a ####-ton of goals in a game, post away. If you met an outstanding girl or guy...post away.

Consider this the local news human interest story, but treat it well?

 
In T-Ball I turned 2 unassisted triple plays in the same game. My other teammates couldn't be trusted to catch the ball so I had to do everything myself.

 
rockaction said:
VA703 said:
in high school I once scored 4 touchdowns in one game
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Cool. Good work.

Could be anything. Sports-related, life-related. Just looking for a blank space for people to share things that otherwise go unmentioned. Mentors. Friends. Parents. Sexcapades. Anything. Free flow.

eta* Guess I should explain myself better. I love New Journalism. I'm sort of always interested in those things that bubble up from the surface without top-down planning. I think anything unique, like the post/recent article (?) about a tired grandfather, caring for his adopted son, sliding along the ice and driving into a snowbank inspires me. That's about it. Anything interesting in your life that deserves mention, I guess.
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:lmao: :whoosh: :lmao:

 
fantasycurse42 said:
rockaction said:
VA703 said:
in high school I once scored 4 touchdowns in one game
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Cool. Good work.

Could be anything. Sports-related, life-related. Just looking for a blank space for people to share things that otherwise go unmentioned. Mentors. Friends. Parents. Sexcapades. Anything. Free flow.

eta* Guess I should explain myself better. I love New Journalism. I'm sort of always interested in those things that bubble up from the surface without top-down planning. I think anything unique, like the post/recent article (?) about a tired grandfather, caring for his adopted son, sliding along the ice and driving into a snowbank inspires me. That's about it. Anything interesting in your life that deserves mention, I guess.
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:lmao: :whoosh: :lmao:
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Not really. Just trying to be nice. I know it was cutting. I'm not dumb, FC.

 
Rattle and Hum said:
In elementary school I could carry the rock all recess without being tackled in 'Smear the Q***r'. It was a combination of speed, elusiveness, and a powerful swivel-hip move that the other youngsters could not conquer.

Of course, I now feel bad about what we called the game.
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Ahhh the good ole days. Right along with dodgeball with the hard red rubber balls. Now they make kids use nerf balls. Can you imagine if our children tried to play smear the Q***r now?

 
Four items come to mind:

Elementary School:

Back to back grand slams in a playoff little league game got me in the local paper.

In gym kickball, I kicked a home run - a swish through the basketball hoop on the other end of the gym.

High School:

Was the "fastest white kid on Long Island" after winning the Long Island freshman championships. Moniker lasts to this day. It's no longer true.

College:

Played with my friends crew for thanksgiving football. Coming off my year of college football (and still the fastest white kid on Long Island). At 5'6" on a good day I think I was the last kid picked. I scored our teams first four touchdowns and delivered a few nice knees to guys chins. Good times.

 
I ran into freezing water at the beach in the middle of December. My friends still talk about that night sometimes, and there was no shrinkage either.

 
I played center in Pop Warner but was also the 2nd fastest guy on the team when we did windsprints in practice. The other kids on the team were also telling coach I should get a shot at QB.

But I was always right at the weight limit for my age so they wanted me on the line. Age/weight limits are a #####.

I shoulda been this guy

 
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I am not the sporting type but my husband is and when I was dating him and going to school, I was a bartender at the local bowling alley he bowled at and he made the 7 10 split twice in one game. He had people buying him drinks all night and he passed out in the bowling alley waiting for me to drive him the 2.5 miles home because he was to drunk to even walk home.

 
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Back in high school, I could throw a football over them mountains. If coach woulda put me in 4th quarter, we would've won state. No doubt in my mind.

 
One warm Summer night I was playing some late night Halo (2 or 3, can't remember which) with my brother-in-law and some of his buddies. We were full of buds and chocolate chip cookies just living the dream, when out of the blue we broke into a beautiful rendition of Catch a Falling Star sung in a round. There was peace & harmony and our song echoed through the halls of that cheap 3 bed 2 bath starter home and for a brief moment everything was right in the world.

We still talk of that night with reverence and have dared not tried to repeat it for fear of dampening the original memory with some contrived watered down version.

 
Koya said:
Four items come to mind:

Elementary School:

Back to back grand slams in a playoff little league game got me in the local paper.

In gym kickball, I kicked a home run - a swish through the basketball hoop on the other end of the gym.

High School:

Was the "fastest white kid on Long Island" after winning the Long Island freshman championships. Moniker lasts to this day. It's no longer true.

College:

Played with my friends crew for thanksgiving football. Coming off my year of college football (and still the fastest white kid on Long Island). At 5'6" on a good day I think I was the last kid picked. I scored our teams first four touchdowns and delivered a few nice knees to guys chins. Good times.
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Your friends knew you played college football and still picked you last?
 
My uncle brought home a boomerang after he went to Australia. Spent an entire morning trying to throw and catch the thing. After heckling him for a while, he told me to give it a try. I threw it. It went around in a circle. I caught it, dropped it, and walked away.

 
johnnyrock62000 said:
Koya said:
Four items come to mind:

Elementary School:

Back to back grand slams in a playoff little league game got me in the local paper.

In gym kickball, I kicked a home run - a swish through the basketball hoop on the other end of the gym.

High School:

Was the "fastest white kid on Long Island" after winning the Long Island freshman championships. Moniker lasts to this day. It's no longer true.

College:

Played with my friends crew for thanksgiving football. Coming off my year of college football (and still the fastest white kid on Long Island). At 5'6" on a good day I think I was the last kid picked. I scored our teams first four touchdowns and delivered a few nice knees to guys chins. Good times.
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Your friends knew you played college football and still picked you last?
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Poorly written on my part. It was my friends' crew / meaning his friends. Different state and other than my friend no one knew me from a whole in the wall.

 
Koya said:
johnnyrock62000 said:
Koya said:
Four items come to mind:

Elementary School:

Back to back grand slams in a playoff little league game got me in the local paper.

In gym kickball, I kicked a home run - a swish through the basketball hoop on the other end of the gym.

High School:

Was the "fastest white kid on Long Island" after winning the Long Island freshman championships. Moniker lasts to this day. It's no longer true.

College:

Played with my friends crew for thanksgiving football. Coming off my year of college football (and still the fastest white kid on Long Island). At 5'6" on a good day I think I was the last kid picked. I scored our teams first four touchdowns and delivered a few nice knees to guys chins. Good times.
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Your friends knew you played college football and still picked you last?
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Poorly written on my part. It was my friends' crew / meaning his friends. Different state and other than my friend no one knew me from a whole in the wall.
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That must have been fun!
 
i still have the newspaper clipping of when i scored 6 goals in a soccer game when i was 8.

it was the first game of the season. Unfortunately it was my zenith because I didn't score 6 more goals all year (classic Week 2 waiver wire wonder)

 
I wrote a paper for my high school AP Government class where we had to use the FOIA to gain source material. I came home one day and as I walked in, I see my mom is on the phone and she said, "Wait, he just walked in." Then she gives me this death stare that said, "what the #### did you do this time?" I took the phone and it was some guy (I think he introduced himself as a General but in retrospect I'm not sure that makes sense) from the Pentagon asking me to verbally rescind my request for the information while he recorded me saying it. One of my biggest regrets ever is doing so.

So, since that day, I was convinced the government was capable of anything if they were willing to track down some kid writing a freaking high school paper.

 
Plorfu said:
I wrote a paper for my high school AP Government class where we had to use the FOIA to gain source material. I came home one day and as I walked in, I see my mom is on the phone and she said, "Wait, he just walked in." Then she gives me this death stare that said, "what the #### did you do this time?" I took the phone and it was some guy (I think he introduced himself as a General but in retrospect I'm not sure that makes sense) from the Pentagon asking me to verbally rescind my request for the information while he recorded me saying it. One of my biggest regrets ever is doing so.

So, since that day, I was convinced the government was capable of anything if they were willing to track down some kid writing a freaking high school paper.
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Send it again and see what happens. :blackhelicoptors: Write your essay and post it for us.
 
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