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A GOOD JUMP SHOT ISN’T RACIST – HAVING YOUR THROAT CHOKED HELPS FOCUS THE DIFFERENCE
...because his grabbing me by the throat for using the N-word made a difference the last thirty-five years. Now, “that word” was used in a sing-song style lots of close friends did in late 1970’s college, and I did it right after one of our team’s best players used it while talking to him, so getting clutched by the throat surprised me hugely.
By Glenn Shorkey5 years ago in Unbalanced
Blizzard Find Victory with Special Teams Showcase Spectacular
Despite providing some of the most exciting plays in all of football and often being the determining factor in the final outcome special teams are often overlooked. Tonight's performance by Green Bay Blizzard Kicker Henry Nell showcased just how exciting and important special teams are.
By Jake Thomas5 years ago in Unbalanced
Do I blame my coaches for my concussion issues/ My football career overview
I absolutely do not blame my coaches whatsoever, I greatly loved playing football and would do it all over again If I could. From the age of six until 20 my coaches were all incredible men. I hold a great deal of respect for them all and I chalk up my concussions issues to the way football was still being played in the 2000's. Having coached at a young age myself just after my own career ended, I got a first hand experience of just how difficult their job truly was. Back then the knowledge about concussions just wasn't there. ESPN was still promoting and airing football shows like "jacked up" that glorified big hits on the football field. The bigger the hit the bigger the excitement from your teammates. Best way to get a loud pop? Helmet to helmet. You could accomplish it with shoulder pads as well, but not quite as often. Becoming and being a harder hitter was something I strived a great deal towards when I played. I never accomplished being the hardest hitter on the team, but I like to think that I did a decent job improving as the years progressed, but with that came added concussions and issues stemming from them. I was truly blessed to have avoided any truly major physical injuries, besides the concussions, throughout the years, only missing one game I was eligible to play in due to a messed up knee my freshman year. I didn't know the issues that post concussions syndrome would cause me however after my career ended. I get asked a lot about how many concussions I suffered and played through and I truly don't know. I can say I've been knocked out roughly 3 or 4 times that I can remember. Most of the guys that I played with or against can recount a time they hit somebody and the lights went out for a moment or flickered momentarily. I can vividly remember one bad hit from my junior year, my teammate Cameron and I hit helmet to helmet during the Oklahoma drill and my lights went out and came back on like an old television coming back on. Strange colors and all. I had no clue the repercussions those hits would have on my life. Back then it was "you have a headache, quit being a puss and man up." Plus being a lineman we all made it a point to show how many battle marks we had on our helmets from the other teams we played. The more battle marks you had meant the harder you hit and the tougher you were essentially. It was like the captain C for youth/ high school football, you know the more battle marks the guy had the better he probably was going to be and the harder he was going to hit. Not always the case, but enough to say it applied 80% of the time.
By Cody DeWeever5 years ago in Unbalanced
Quarterbacks, Racism, and Talking Heads
“Very few people can evaluate quarterbacks and even fewer can coach them.” — Bill Walsh On the cusp of the 2021 NFL Draft, the quarterback position remains front and center. The coveted white whale of pro football. Elite and Franchise are the terms associated with the top collegiate quarterbacks entering the draft. Do these prospects have the tools to lead their team to the Super Bowl?
By Phil Rossi5 years ago in Unbalanced
Who has the worst fans?
I will try to be a non-bias as possible. Being that I am a born and raised West Coast girl and whether I am watching the sports media from all over the country or games with fans, I must say that I do feel that East Coast sports teams as well as their fans have a more notorious history. People in the East Coast take sports very seriously. It is not to say that the West Coast doesn’t take it seriously as well or have crazy fans, however I do not hear as many stories about fan bases and traditions like I do in the East Coast.
By A.A.C.5 years ago in Unbalanced
Helmets Don't Save Lives. Top Story - March 2021.
The conversation on concussion prevention within American football cannot be had without discussing why. The right question to ask is not why concussions occur but why it’s important to limit and prevent them. Within the last decade, a multitude of former NFL players who have been diagnosed with a brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) have taken their own lives. This is not a coincidence but a serious reality faced by real people. Does this mean that the long-term effects of repeated concussions can lead to severe brain changes? Evidently, and if so, what exactly are those changes and just how damaging can the effects be?
By Joy5 years ago in Unbalanced
Kansas City Chiefs: A Football Family
The Kansas City Chiefs is an American football team traditionally based in Kansas City, Missouri. They compete in the National Football League's Western Division as an independent member of the league. The team is one of the pioneers in the NFL's new expansion of Sunday Ticket, offering sports lovers a chance to watch their favorite teams in the biggest games in the country. The club is the only remaining one of the original eight NFL franchises that was not established during the opening phases of the NFL's competition and was known as the Kansas City Blues.
By abert bruce5 years ago in Unbalanced
Ranking Russell Wilson's Possible Trade Destinations
I really cant picture Russell Wilson in a different uniform other than the Seattle Seahawks. Ask any football fan over the last 10 years what player they think of when asked about the Seahawks and I think at least 80% of them will tell you Russell Wilson. He has helped lead them to 9 straight winning seasons including 2 super bowl appearances and 1 win. As great as they have been together, recently Russ has expressed frustration and has made it clear that he is open to being traded if the Seahawks want to move on from him. Reports came out in February about the 4 teams that he would prefer to go to if he does somehow end up getting traded. A new report came out this morning, March 5th, that Seattle wont be shopping him around but will take calls from opposing teams regarding Wilsons availability. Th rumored 4 teams that Wilson would like to play for if traded is as follows: Dallas Cowboys, Chicago Bears, New Orleans Saints, Las Vegas Raiders. Below I am going to rank those teams based off how Successful it would be.
By LeftBench5 years ago in Unbalanced
The Playoff Pool
E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES! The obnoxious notification alert awoke Sylvie with a start, but she grabbed it from the spot beside her on the bed in a hurry. Lighting the phone screen up in the dark, she had to squint into the brightness to see who the incoming text message was from. But it was just her brother and she groaned as she threw her arm down with the phone back onto the bed and rolled her eyes in frustration. Didn’t her brother know that nobody in Las Vegas got up before eleven o’clock in the morning? But she was up now, despite the time on her phone telling her it was 6:58am, so she climbed out of the queen-sized bed and flicked on the light switch beside the door before snatching up her cellphone out of the sea of purple sheets and scurrying out to her dining room table.
By Justine Klavon5 years ago in Unbalanced
Selling The Out
We played a lot of street football in my neighborhood. I say neighborhood, but it was really just us and the Proctor kids, our nearest neighbors, playing on the semi-rural road between our driveways. Sometimes some other kids might play, but it was pretty much the next-door-down Proctor kids and us, the Balls. That’s right, the Ball kids, mostly my brother and I, were referred to as “The Balls.” And Steve, my beloved “big ball” brother, and I (yup—“little ball”) would play street football with the Proctor boys, Jim and Bruce. Now Jim, the older brother was slim as an eel in Winter— he could have been in our family; Steve and I were always thin, long before our distance running days— and Bruce was much the opposite, and as it turns out, the only actual football player of the lot. We would choose sides, filling in with whatever sisters were around, and play till we couldn’t see the last game-saving long bomb.
By Mike Ball5 years ago in Unbalanced
