Ballers... who did you grow up playing with?

M2 · Post by M2 » Wed Sep 06, 2006 4:22 am

Greg Loberg (Terra Linda H.S)... Cal and the New Orleans Saints...

Stacey Bailey (Terra Linda H.S.)... Atlanta Falcons...

Brad Muster (San Marin H.S.) ... Chicago Bears...

next... player?

In "The City".

Van · Post by **Van** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 4:33 am

Biff, Terra Linda Class Of '84, wrote:I played with this guy. Awesome high school player. He once scored four TDs in one game, some shit like that. Lost touch with him though. Last I heard, he was off to UCLA or some such. Weird dude. I always liked the guy, funny guy, but he was into Yanni music way too much. Never met a dude so into flutes and windchimes and smelly girls, weird crap like that...

M2 · Post by M2 » Wed Sep 06, 2006 4:39 am

m2... marketing genius.

Van sells mortorcyles.

Game, set, match.

Hey Van, tell us about the players you grew up with?

I'll be waiting.

Van · Post by **Van** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 4:55 am

JoJo Townsell wrote:Best I ever saw, that dude. He could throw a football over a mountain! In fact, when I showed him around our campus he took some Asian kid's hackysack and he threw it all the way to Will Rogers Beach. Last I heard though, he said he couldn't tear himself away from his beloved Idaho...

M2 · Post by M2 » Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:01 am

Van is left speechless in this thread...

m2 knows how to shut up a bitch.

Van · Post by **Van** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:06 am

m2, all kidding aside, hmmm...

I guess Jack McDowell, Cy Young award winner for the Chicago White Sox, he'd be the first guy to come to mind. I grew up with him in Little League and then we both went to the same high school. I was a little older than him though so he was still on the JV team when I was on the varsity.

Also, our left fielder, Harper LaBell (sp?), he ended up bouncing around the NFL for ten years or so as a long snapper.

Oh, and yeah, Socal would crap down my neck if I failed to mention my having played against Barry White's kid...

:-)

the_ouskull · Post by **the_ouskull** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:57 am

My2ool:

How, exactly, are you proving your "UCLA offered me a scholarship as a tailback" point by lying about naming people that you've played with? That's like me saying that I played with Pantera and then posting pics of the band without me in them.

You're a dipshit geek, and we're not going to believe you unless you break out a pic of Karl Dorell with one of your windchimes up his ass and your (alleged) scholarship letter in his mouth.

the_ouskull

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 1:21 pm

Stan Belinda was a couple years older than me. We used to have huge pickup football games. I was surprised that Stan was the one who ended up a pro athlete...two of his brothers made it onto PSU's football team (backups), and Stan seemed like the smallest. I bet lot of Pirate fans wish he never became a pro athlete...

Shoalzie · Post by **Shoalzie** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 1:49 pm

I never played football but I did play baseball against T.J. Duckett my freshman year...struck him on three pitches in a relief appearance.

Nolesy · Post by **Nolesy** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 1:56 pm

Played on the same team in 4th grade with Tom Cousineu ( sure the spelling) is wrong.
Actually we both played inside linebacker in the 5-4 little league defense.
His carreer took off a little quicker than mine.

indyfrisco · Post by **indyfrisco** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 3:04 pm

IndyRico

indyfrisco · Post by **indyfrisco** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 3:10 pm

Best I can think of was Ronnie and Grant Heard. Both were on my Little League All Star Baseball Team. I played football with them a bit later.

Ronnie made his mark as a DB for Ole Miss. His little brother, Grant, was a WR for Ole Miss.

Ronnie played for San Francisco 49ers as a Safety from 2000-2004 and for Atlanta in 2005. I don't think he's on a team anymore.

Vito Corleone · Post by **Vito Corleone** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 3:32 pm

In High school

Mitchell Price - SMU (death penalty transfer)/Tulane, NFL: Rams and Cards

Vladamir McCuary - Basketball OU/New Mexico Now an Actor was in the move 5th Element.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 4:01 pm

When I was growing up I mostly played with myself.

quacker backer · Post by **quacker backer** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 4:29 pm

Mikey wrote:When I was growing up I mostly played with myself.

so what you are saying is the more things change the more they stay the same

RadioFan · Post by **RadioFan** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 4:43 pm

I went to the same school as AP. Does that count?

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:16 pm

RadioFan wrote:I went to the same school as AP. Does that count?

Only if you played with him.

Terry in Crapchester · Wed Sep 06, 2006 7:37 pm

The only guy I can remember who made it to the NFL from my high school days was Pat Kelly. He was a QB in high school, went to Syracuse and converted to TE, then went to the Denver Broncos and was their starting TE until he ripped up his knee badly in the '89 AFC championship game vs. the Browns, and never played afterward.

He wound up working on Wall Street. Sadly, he succumbed to cancer a few years back. His funeral was held in Rochester, and in a moment truly worthy of Zysdale, his funeral brought Monica Lewinsky, with whom he had become friendly in NYC, to town.

Laxplayer · Post by **Laxplayer** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 9:52 pm

Van, we're rivals as far as high schools go. In fact they are now in the same league again along with Loyola and Amat. I'm doing the ND game vs. Canyon this week at Canyon. If you live locally you should check it out.

I played little league against Mike Fetters but I coached several guys who went on to play D-1 football and a couple who had some stints in the NFL. Christian Fauria is one that comes to mind right away.

Van · Post by **Van** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:00 pm

Lax, back when I was there at ND teams like Bishop Amat or Mater Dei were nowhere on our radar and Canyon (Canyon Country) might as well've been on Pluto. I think they were C.I.F. like us but we were never going to run across anybody out in Santa Clarita.

Pretty much, it was always Crespi, St Francis and Loyola.

Adelpiero · Post by **Adelpiero** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:11 pm

best player i played against? Ohio ST fans remember this guy.

in playoffs, i hit Butler Bynote(who later added an ') shin high, he was at full speed and flipped onto his head. play stopped for almost 20 minutes, they thought he suffered a spinal injury, he gained feeling back but never returned to game. my claim ot fame, especially cause by'note went on to have a nice career at OSU.

we always got stuck playing against the thug schools in first round. nothing like playing on dirt fields, with 6 inch chalk lines, and gangbangers threatening you while you were on sidelines.

ah, the good ole days vs sumner,vashon, and soldan

The Seer · Post by **The Seer** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:44 pm

Van wrote:Lax, back when I was there at ND teams like Bishop Amat or Mater Dei were nowhere on our radar and Canyon (Canyon Country) might as well've been on Pluto. I think they were C.I.F. like us but we were never going to run across anybody out in Santa Clarita.

Pretty much, it was always Crespi, St Francis and Loyola.

What years?

Vito Corleone · Post by **Vito Corleone** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:00 pm

Now if the question was who did you play against.

I played against some damn good football players

San Antonio Holmes High: Keith & Kerry Cash UT- each played for a couple of NFL teams.

Johnny Walker: UT/ Never made it to the NFL but he married a very hot girl I was good friends with.

Chris Pryor - Texas Tech = probably the best runningback to come out of Texas in the 80's. Too bad he was such a dumbass, played one semester of college ball and never went back. He was a Texas high school legend.

JayDuck · Post by **JayDuck** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:30 pm

Nobody really of note in football, but Damon Stoudamire was on my high school basketball team.

L45B · Post by **L45B** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:32 pm

Vito Corleone wrote:San Antonio Holmes High...

Then you must know SanAntonio Holmes who played for tOSU?

Sincerely,

ESPN2's mop-up broadcasting crew

Van · Post by **Van** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:41 pm

Seer, I was on the JVs as a freshman in '79 and I was on the varsity from 80-82. Jack McDowell was a freshman on the JVs during my senior year.

The usual heartbreaking shit, back then. My sophomore year we were in the playoffs and I was in left field and we were one out away from advancing to a game at Dodger Stadium, which would've been a very big deal to me. Bases loaded, we're up by three and some guy on the other team lines a single to center. Our center fielder, Jim Micelli, he has a brain freeze and rather than playing it safe he decides to try and end the game with a diving catch...

...which never stood a chance.

He dives, he doesn't come close, the ball rips on by behind him and there we go, myself and the right fielder, tearing ass into deep center after the ball.

Too late. Inside the park grand slam. We lose.

We never made it that deep into the playoffs again during my next two years. The year after I graduated though we were ranked #1 in the nation behind Jack McDowell.

Just...fuck.

Adelpiero · Post by **Adelpiero** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 10:41 am

e wrote:
Adelpiero wrote:ah, the good ole days vs sumner,vashon, and soldan
ever play against riverview? those dudes were nasty

riverview was 5a, we were 4a

i believe the school is called,"mvscalview". or so everyone called it.