Did you play?

[GrnBay007]

Curious to know if our fans on Packer Rats played the game or never played and are passionate football fans.

Also, for those that played, how old were you when you started playing organized football? (pop warner or other)

[retailguy]

Played high school football back in the stone age. I was not very good, but I wanted to be.....

[BallHawk]

I play around the neighborhood, but I played a little flag when I was 10. I don't play organized, because here, if you haven't been doing it since you were 5, you're stuck on the o-line. The coach's son plays QB, and his friend plays WR, and his workmate's son plays WR. It's so contrived for example; In one practice we were doing workouts for QB and it was me and the coach's son. The drill we were doing was throwing to 2 WR, covered by 2 CB We were throwing from the 20 yard line.. He went first and went 3 for 10, with 3 TDs and 2 INT's. On my turn, I went 8 for 10, with 2 TDs and 1 INT. Afterwards the coach said, "Well, we all know who the winner was here, Casey!" Afterwards the coach told me, "To work on my accuracy." Of course the kid ahead of me was about as accurate as Kyle Orton, but whatever. I haven't played organized since.

[]{ilr]3]

Played My Senior Year for Tri-Valley High School in South Dakota. We were small so we played 9-Man. We were picked to lose almost every game in the picks made in the Sioux Falls Argus Leader. We only lost 3 games all year. One to to our Biggest rivals, and one to one of the worst teams in our division after we knew we were in the play offs. We then went all the way to the State Championship, beating the rival spoken about earlier to get there. We got to play in the Dome at USD We lost the game, but what a riot it was!

I played tight end and I was a dumb, smart ass kid who pissed off the coach. So I got a lot of reps as a tackling dummy in practice and played on special teams alot

[hurleyfan]

Played "street touch football" as a kid, then highschool ball. I could throw the ball as anyone in our area but was pretty short so I never got what I thought was a fair shake to be QB. Freshman year we were getting beat by eventual state champion 48 - 0 late in 4Q, so our wonderful coach gave me a shot! Figured we had nothing to lose so asked if we could run some no huddle pass plays(almost un heard of in HS 30 years ago) and we completed the first 3 plays for about 40 yards. Then the "bad guys" gave us an all out blitz, ran through our line and about 4 guys hit me. That's the day I learned what torn ACL meant!

Rehab brought me to the game of tennis, good for leg strength, change of direction, and co-ordination, and also end of my football career. Got a FUGLY scar though!!

[Homer Jay]

Played "street touch football" as a kid, then highschool ball. I could throw the ball as anyone in our area but was pretty short so I never got what I thought was a fair shake to be QB. Freshman year we were getting beat by eventual state champion 48 - 0 late in 4Q, so our wonderful coach gave me a shot! Figured we had nothing to lose so asked if we could run some no huddle pass plays(almost un heard of in HS 30 years ago) and we completed the first 3 plays for about 40 yards. Then the "bad guys" gave us an all out blitz, ran through our line and about 4 guys hit me. That's the day I learned what torn ACL meant!

Rehab brought me to the game of tennis, good for leg strength, change of direction, and co-ordination, and also end of my football career. Got a FUGLY scar though!!

Was eventual state champ by any chance Maple Northwestern?

[hurleyfan]

Played "street touch football" as a kid, then highschool ball. I could throw the ball as anyone in our area but was pretty short so I never got what I thought was a fair shake to be QB. Freshman year we were getting beat by eventual state champion 48 - 0 late in 4Q, so our wonderful coach gave me a shot! Figured we had nothing to lose so asked if we could run some no huddle pass plays(almost un heard of in HS 30 years ago) and we completed the first 3 plays for about 40 yards. Then the "bad guys" gave us an all out blitz, ran through our line and about 4 guys hit me. That's the day I learned what torn ACL meant!

Rehab brought me to the game of tennis, good for leg strength, change of direction, and co-ordination, and also end of my football career. Got a FUGLY scar though!!

Was eventual state champ by any chance Maple Northwestern?

Homer,
Shenendahoah (upsate NY)

[hurleyfan]

Played "street touch football" as a kid, then highschool ball. I could throw the ball as anyone in our area but was pretty short so I never got what I thought was a fair shake to be QB. Freshman year we were getting beat by eventual state champion 48 - 0 late in 4Q, so our wonderful coach gave me a shot! Figured we had nothing to lose so asked if we could run some no huddle pass plays(almost un heard of in HS 30 years ago) and we completed the first 3 plays for about 40 yards. Then the "bad guys" gave us an all out blitz, ran through our line and about 4 guys hit me. That's the day I learned what torn ACL meant!

Rehab brought me to the game of tennis, good for leg strength, change of direction, and co-ordination, and also end of my football career. Got a FUGLY scar though!!

Was eventual state champ by any chance Maple Northwestern?

Were you on THAT state champ? Break a little kids knee in HS?!?

[red]

i played organized tackle in the south until 7th grade, yes they start early down there

i was being groomed to be the starting high school qb already when i was in 7th grade. which i had no idea why, i was slow as hell with no arm at all, but the coach liked my attitude and smarts. i gotta say, being groomed to take over a varsity team 2 years before you get there is a lot for a kid

my family moved after football in 7th grade to a massive b-ball city. which was fine by me cause i loved b-ball. so i just worried about that and soccer, which i played my whole life. in 8th i didn't go out for the team because i didn't know anyone, and the ones i knew i hated. so i played for a traveling soccer team, and a funny thing happened. somewhere between 7th and 8th grade i went from one of the slowest kids i knew, to one of the fastest 8th graders in the chicagoland area. so i started running track

then we moved

now i was in another school were i knew no one, we moved there just a few weeks before classes started, so i already missed the start of practice for freshman year. so i didn't play. then track season started and everyone found out i could fly. then i started getting stopped by people trying to talk me into playing football. at this point i was 5'11 and 125 and hadn't played in a couple years. so i said no i would just get broke on my first hit, they wanted me to be a freaking running back. i would have died

so i didn't play in high school. then i went to college and another funny thing happened. we use to play pickup games all the time and intermural flag football, and all of a sudden out of no where i had developed a cannon of an arm. no here i am in college working out all the time, bulked up with a rifle arm and couldn't be caught from behind by anyone, and wondering what might have been

so to sum up, i played every kind of football up to high school. but really wish i would have kept playing

morle of the story is, grab your opportunities when you have a chance. and you only get to live once, don't pass up something you'll regret later

but at least i'm not one of those old guys that talkes and dreams about the good old days playing high school football

i'm just one of those old guys that dreams and talks about what might have been if i had played high school football. they have to base theirs on facts, i can make mine up from scratch

[Charles Woodson]

I played 3 years of middle school, not doing it as a freshman in high school, but maybe last year. Football really is my passion and i love playing it, ive played a varriety of postions, started of as DB, went to reciver and played D-end, i guess i liked all three but i would have to say d-end was my favorite, its alot of work, but on game day when u nail that qb, its all worth it...also do the kicking and punting

[Rastak]

Played tons of pickup football, then played in a 10-12 year old league as a MLB, T and TE. Played freshman football in high school but quit for good to play garage band music.....actually, I played some pickup street football in the early 80's after I got married.

[Mazzin]

Posting my Boyfriends Info, I'm ALWAYS trying to get that son of a bitch to sign up here. I even told that fucker that he would be addicted....anyways.

He has been playing football since pee wee, he played Center in pee-wee...
Middle School he Played Fullback, and Inside linebacker.
And than Highschool played Tightend and ROLB, he was good, became a captin his Sophmore year, and only played LB, but His Junior year he started playing both ways, in his freshman year he was on J.V. started both ways but no one cared about JV so he just was mostly a practice hitting dummy!


Good thread, i need to get that bitch on here!

[pacfan]

HS football and pick-up games.

Played JV and Varsity.

MLB on the JV squad and DT/DE for varsity (started for both).

Our HS teams sucked, 1-8 or something like that. We had some terrible racial politics on our team, which was unfortunate because as players we all got along fairly well. Our team would always end fighting the other school ( before, during and after the game). The players stuck-up for one another (no, not like the Titans-no state champs here).

The parents and the coaches were all about race and it showed.

I destroyed both of my shoulders playing football and had to have reconstruction on the right shoulder.

Greatest team sport ever!!!

[Deputy Nutz]

Well I played ten years of organized tackle football. My body has taken its lumps and bruises but luckily I have never had to have surgery due directly to the sport, but eventually my rotator cuff needs to be fixed up, and my ankle could use a little clean up, but all and all I am good.

Started playing tackle football in 7th grade, before that I played organized flag football in third grade.

We won the state championship my freshman year, although like most freshman I wasn't on varsity, then we played for the championship my sophomore year which I was on Varsity, then my senior year we won the state title.

I went to a small division 3 college for two years and started for a year, and lettered for both, then I took a year off and then played two more years at another division 3 college.

[AtlPackFan]

Played my freshman year and realized very early I HATED grass drills. Stuck with basketball and baseball after that.