The Al Bundy Thread

[sean miguel]

Have you ever played sports? If so, what was your highlight? Relive your glory days here.

The only sport I played was basketball in high school. At 6' 3" and 170-180ish I played center on JV then small forward on varsity. My thing was outside shooting. I was such a good jump shooter. That scene in Hoosiers where that guy hits like 20 jumpshots in a row while Gene Hackman is talking to him? That was porn to me. It wasn't until my junior year that I started hitting the weights and got my jumps with squats and calf raises. My vert was insane but due to my smallish half-asian hands I could never palm a basketball so most of my dunks were of the two-handed variety. Anyways, my highlight would be hitting 5 3-pointers in a game. My lowlight would be getting ejected from a game after punching someone.


cool.story.bro.

 

[Rey C.]

That's funny. You were the exact same size as I was in high school. I played center and strong-forward. My highlight was playing on a JV team that went two and a half seasons undefeated (although I was only there for one season of that). My lowlight was sitting on the bench with a blown-out knee the night that a college scout came to see me play. I got scholarship offers from a couple of smaller schools. But I wanted to go to a big university, and seeing that their point guards were my height (and I wasn't quick enough or a good enough dribbler to play guard), that's where it ended for me. I thought maybe I could play JV at UVA, but that wasn't to be either. And with that began my (******) life of chasing the $, fast cars and :bounce:

It does feel kinda good when people younger than me remember some of my high school exploits though. I really was a dirty, obnoxious and arrogant player. My stated motto to opposing players was: This is my lane and you only come in here with my permission. Being booed and hated at away games really appealed to me. Don't know why now. :dunno:

Just for reference, my favorite magazine is Big 'Uns. I am a lifetime member of NO MA'AM. And my favorite TV show is "Psycho ***".

Please allow me to introduce myself

I stuck around Polk High
When I saw it was a time for a change
****** the czar and his ministers
Peggy screamed in vain

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name

 

[sean miguel]

and seeing that their point guards were my height (and I wasn't quick enough or a good enough dribbler to play guard), that's where it ended for me.

Exactly. I didn't have the ball-handling skills (shut up) to play at the next level. I would've been a one-trick pony. I could shoot. And by the end of my senior year I was ******** heavily and started smoking so my weight went up and my stamina went down. The first time I realized I couldn't dunk anymore was so depressing.

c'est la vie.

 

[Rey C.]

I can't believe that more people haven't chimed in on this thread. Guys and girls! Maybe not so much in sports, but girls have their "Al Bundy moments" in life too.

 

[pool_hustler]

I can't believe that more people haven't chimed in on this thread.

It's a good idea for a thread :thumbsup:
I plan on returning to share my thrill of victory and agony of defeat moments when I've got a bit more time.

Unlike you two basketball was not my strength. I led various leagues in assists and played excellent defense, but I was NOT a good outside shooter lol
I think Chick Hearn coined the phrase "frozen rope" from watching me play youth BB :1orglaugh
And free throws? Forget about it. Having time to actually think about a shot only lowered the lowered the likelihood I'd make it lol

 

[Mayhem]

I can't believe that more people haven't chimed in on this thread.

Sorry I can't help you. Football, track and basketball I was a perennial bench warmer. At that time, I had no interest in baseball (which I regret now). I was really good at pond hockey, but in a rare moment of maturity I realized that joining a league was going to be a nightmare for my m-m, so I never went for it.

Come to think of it, I was a designated joint-roller among my crowd. That's about all I can contribute.

 

[ThatRedWing]

I played football until junior year and then my grades tanked. I played fullback and linebacker at 6' and 220. I wasn't fast but I was quick and strong. The best game I had was one that I about 15 tackles a fumble recovery and an interception. The funniest thing that I ever did was when we played a cross-town rival. The QB had played on the same team with me for three years along with his twin ******* who played WR. I came in on a "dog" and just drilled him just as he got rid of the ball. I was standing over him when the play ended so I reached down to help him up. I got him to his feet, patted him on the ass and looked him in the and said 'I'll see you in a minute'. He had his head on a swivel for the rest of the game. Him and his ******* both went to a MAC school and we ran into each other a few years ago and he told me that was the hardest he had ever been hit.

 

[pool_hustler]

GOLF - Played 3 years on my High School varsity team. All 3 years we won the Los Angeles City golf championship. Two of the 3 years we also won the CIF/SCGA tournament, which was the rough equivalent of a California state championship. Those teams were just nasty good. Put it this way: I was a 4 or 5 handicap at the time and I was only the 7th best player on the team :1orglaugh Two members of those teams went on to play on the PGA tour, but kind of surprisingly without a lot of success.

I went on and played one year of golf at the University level, but then I busted up my back in a car accident, thus officially ending any faint hopes of a career playing golf.

 

[Jack Davenport]

I was never any good at basketball. I played baseball and soccer through high school. Not spectacular any any sport, but had a couple of flashes of brilliance in a few games like I was in a zone. One game where I was playing shortstop I was catching line drives that were 3 inches off the ground and to my and the umpire's amazement. Couldn't ever string together the consistency to take it to the next level.

That's all I got

 

[sean miguel]

I was never any good at basketball. I played baseball and soccer through high school. Not spectacular any any sport, but had a couple of flashes of brilliance in a few games like I was in a zone. One game where I was playing shortstop I was catching line drives that were 3 inches off the ground and to my and the umpire's amazement. Couldn't ever string together the consistency to take it to the next level.

That's all I got

Ahh, the zone. If someone could bottle that and sell it they'd be richer than a russian guy with a miniature giraffe.

Of course it'd be atop the list of ****** substances but when has that stopped anyone?

 

[Patrick_S]

I played football (the kind where you kick a ball, not the kind where americans throw an egg-shaped object at each other) for three years when i was 10-12 years old. A lot of our players left and joined another local club the second year i played. In the end we had to fill out the team with players that were two-three years younger. Finally our coaches quit, and that was the end of my football career.

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

I played football; rugby; and I wrestled. I wrestled from third grade through high school and I finished my career with a fifth place finish at the Iowa State HS championships (No joke; finishing that high in Iowa is like winning a championship anywhere else except maybe Oklahoma.) My older ******* had a more distinguished career as a wrestler and football player but I wouldn't trade my experience.

I didn't start playing football until seventh grade but I matured pretty quickly and had a nose for the ball. I didn't get a whole lot of press during high school but my abilities were recognized and I got a scolarship to my favorite school and mostly played during garbage time as a big free safety. My grades tanked and I joined the Marine Corps and I continued playing football and discovered rugby. I mostly played halfback and winger. Because of my size they tried to get me to play 8 man but I like my ears where they are.

 

[blueduchess]

I played 8th grade basketball, and did track in high school. I was average.

My basketball coach called me "All American" and wanted me to play in high school. I didn't try out though.
No spectacular plays or cool stories. :dunno:

 

[Supafly]

Sorry to chime in so late! Here are my anecdotes:

at school, I was the best runner in our class and that was what made me a good football player at that point. When my opposing players tried to rush past, I just kicked in the turbo and ran them off, taking the ball with me.

In trade school, during my time when I became a craftsman (painting etc), we had a school football tournament, and as none in my class wanted to do the nasty job of goalkeeping, as the class representative, I volunteered. In one game, the one in a trillion moment happened:

The teams did not have any other strategy than just run in a bulk around the ball, and when both teams were playing in front of the other goal, one lucky opposing player got the ball and hammered it wide across the field in my goal's direction. My instant thought, forget grabbing it, kick it right back while your classmates are still in front of the enemy's gates! I made a step forward and my foot met the oncoming ball just perfectly. Then the unheard of happened... I had given the ball such a spin that it rose in an arc above me, dropping to the ground behind me, in our goal. Needless to say, for weeks, I was the joke of the school. I am split about nobody filming it - I would be a Youtube sensation probably.

Later, I excelled at pool billard and I played striker in an amateur league. My forte was: I never learned the classic moves of how-to-play by the book, so my opponents were always surprised about my actions, like myself, as I took every ball as it came, and let myself surprise me how this would go. By that time, I started to like jazz music, too.

 

[sean miguel]

Then the unheard of happened... I had given the ball such a spin that it rose in an arc above me, dropping to the ground behind me, in our goal. Needless to say, for weeks, I was the joke of the school. I am split about nobody filming it - I would be a Youtube sensation probably.

:1orglaugh that's great.

 

[Bribi1]

Never played any sport officially, like in a club. Did play football (=soccer) with friends for quite some time.
I kept a few things here and there. Like a time when I panna-ed a guy with a ball roll flick (ball roll-stepover-rabona, this trick:http://youtu.be/oPznzag_r-E?t=7s)
Or one time when I did a jumping turning volley (the ball was high) that landed on the crossbar. Didn't felt that special while doing it but that's all my friends being impressed that told me that it was maybe quite good!
Stuff like that.

 

[MustBeGood]

Ran cross country in the fall.was off the bench 3 year varsity SG, and ran track in the spring in HS.

Played team handball in a UW ****** school of Madison UW-Milwaukee.

Today run 3-4 miles 2-3 times a week in good weather, mountain bike off road and sometimes switching my tires to slicks in the city , and when with my ******** outside hoops teaching her how to shoot.

 

[BCT]

Played football. Two time state champ.

 

[GodsEmbryo]

I never was part of a club or did anything in a competition. When I was younger I liked long-distance running (up to 20km), later on I started cycling (3-6 days a week, on a day about 20-60km, in the weekend roughly 150km).

Somewhere around 2001 I was a big fan of the ONCE cycling team. I had bought a race bike like they used and complete outfit of this team, pretty cool helmet, sunglasses, ... and wore it during my training sessions. Important to know is that I live in a city visited by a lot of tourists. And there's a parking spot where a lot of tourist busses stop just outside of the city. From there on they take a tram into the city. So one day in the summer I was standing in front of a red light near that parking spot. A Japanese tourist was taking a picture of me, and I was stupid enough to strike a pose. Thought it would be fun... Before I knew it I had about 20-something of his fellow travellers around me taking pictures with me being a dork posing for them.
As awkward as it already was, at some point I had someone comming up to me asking "who are you, are you famous?". Not that I wanted to ***** the situation but hey... I can proudly say that some people have an autograph of me thinking I'm a famous racing cyclist of the ONCE team

My only moment of glory...

 

[MustBeGood]

Here is team handball if you never seen it played.