El Toro High School Chargers
Blue and Yellow but had a Bullshead logo on the helmet instead of lightning bolts like Edison HS and the SD Chargers
Varsity Football, Baseball and Wrestling, wore #4 in football and baseball. We were good back when Lax's buddy was our coach, I dont think the school has won a title since 1995
Have had a few pro FB playes hail from here:
Greg Garrity
Tim Manoa
... and a few other scrubs I can't think of.
Used to be a pretty damned good in football. Actually vied for #1 ranking in the country a time or two in the late 80's/early 90's. Snce, haven't done a whole hey of a lot.
He aint my buddy so. cal. The only time I interviewed him he was a rude, arrogant, stuck up mother fucker. then I was talking to his son to get pronunciations of kids names and he fucking flipped out......
Birmingham......I get one point....and they'll win it again this year. Hey, I'm doing their game vs. Valencia.....come on by and say hello......
Class of '82 here, so at least I'm not the oldest. :wink:
Jimmy Medalions wrote:
Laxplayer wrote:I'm fucking old. So old that they didn't even have high school when I was a teenager.
[old man voice]Let me tell you something, sonny. When I was a teenager, school was a single room building, and all the kids were together regardless of grade level. In the winter, you had to shovel coal in the furnace to make sure the building stayed warm. And we had to walk ten miles to and from school, in a driving snowstorm every day, uphill both ways. But we were happy just to have the opportunity to go to school.[/old man voice]
War Wagon wrote:The first time I click on one of your youtube links will be the first time.
WolverineSteve wrote:A. Where the fuck is Marine City?
2. What year?
c. You sure it wasn't Edsel Ford and not DHS?
A. Exit 258 on I-94, turn right, drive till the road dead ends into the St. Clair River.
2. 1992.
B. Fo'sho. I'd just moved there from Dearborn (was supposed to attend Fordson), not to mention my brother and sister graduated from Edsel, so I know the difference. My parents used to live across from that old drunk coach of theirs, Jack something-or-other.
Jack Bridges. No way!!!
Small freaking world.
"Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football."
-John Heisman
"Any street urchin can shout applause in victory, but it takes character to stand fast in defeat. One is noise --- the other, loyalty." Fielding Yost
Damn Meds, Corona is takin it in the pooper from harbor tonight on the FSN game of the week. at least the Sea Kings got rid of those old Raiders uniforms from back in your day
WolverineSteve wrote:A. Where the fuck is Marine City?
2. What year?
c. You sure it wasn't Edsel Ford and not DHS?
A. Exit 258 on I-94, turn right, drive till the road dead ends into the St. Clair River.
2. 1992.
B. Fo'sho. I'd just moved there from Dearborn (was supposed to attend Fordson), not to mention my brother and sister graduated from Edsel, so I know the difference. My parents used to live across from that old drunk coach of theirs, Jack something-or-other.
Jack Bridges. No way!!!
Small freaking world.
you know dooder? or did you play against him at dhs? i couldn't believe when my brother told me the drunk guy across the street was the hs fb coach.
Yeah Jack was a Dearborn legend. Tipped many a brew in the same pub he frequented as I came of age. His brother was the Track/CC coach at my HS. Jack wore that damn cowboy hat on the sidelines, where did he think he was? Fucking Edsel was our big rivalry (you probably knew that). Fordson resembled Beirut with all the mid-easterners in Dearborns east and south ends.
Don't think I ever knew you had Dearborn ties.
"Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football."
-John Heisman
"Any street urchin can shout applause in victory, but it takes character to stand fast in defeat. One is noise --- the other, loyalty." Fielding Yost
i was there for a couple years after moving from oregon. i was a good 4'6" in junior high and sat at the white table, though not "white table" in the dixie sense. it was me, four other white kids, and a bit of the palestinian outcasts. oh yeah, i mentioned 4'6" b/c of the girls who'd threaten to beat my arse, though i wasn't afraid of any particular one for too long b/c they were married off before they could ever follow through. i received my first wedding invite the summer after the 7th grade.
i have this "the curse reversed" t-shirt from when dhs finally beat fordson in 2004. a friend of mine in peace corps went to dhs, and when her mom visited she brought a shit-ton of those shirts and passed them out to EVERYONE: customs agents, police, store clerks, mayors, village headmen, aids orphans, etc.
They won a bunch of state titles after I left, then the "genius" coach left for some wannabe Permian in Texas and started getting his ass handed to him.
