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dy156 · 08-22-2003, 07:45 AM

I will list best and worse both as a fan, and from my (very) limited playing experience.

best:
tie
living in Washington DC and working for two guys from Buffalo the first year Dallas beat them in the Superbowl
and
7th grade B team football: We ran our plays onto the field through rotating recievers. Our coach was in the hospital with his wife who was having a baby, and another coach who had never worked with us was in charge. After a touchdown, we did not have kickers, and so 2 pt conversions were the norm. I ran the play in, but told the Qb a different play, a pass to me. The play got messed up, but he threw it to me, and two points! Because it got messed up, I think the coach did not know what I had done, or maybe he just didn't understand or care, because he never said anything about it.

worst:
tie
As a Baylor fan, there were lots of lousy football games, but my worst sports memory was Baylor vs. UT in '97 at homecoming. As usual, we were having a terrible year, and I had been up all night the night before working on homecoming stuff. I stayed for part of the game, and then we got behind and I went home to take a nap before the festivities that night, not wanting to watch yet another defeat. I woke up hearing the bells on campus ringing as the freshmen carried the goalpost through the campus. We never had much to cheer for, but I had missed the one huge upset of my years there. I tried to learn my lesson and stay till the end, or near the end of every game after that, only to watch them lose. Alot.
and
7th grade basketball, I was on the B team. The last game of the season the coach had the A team rest for the city tournament, and was going to divide the B team and have us play the A and B teams of a really lousy middle school. I was on the "upper half" of the B team, until I got in trouble for goofing off during practice, when the coach put me with the group playing the other school's B team. The morning after the game, my name was on the announcements as the high scorer of the "C team" game. The only time all year I had made the morning announcements, and I was thoroughly embarassed!

08-22-2003, 07:45 AM	#27 (permalink)
dy156 cookie Location: in the backwoods	I will list best and worse both as a fan, and from my (very) limited playing experience. best: tie living in Washington DC and working for two guys from Buffalo the first year Dallas beat them in the Superbowl and 7th grade B team football: We ran our plays onto the field through rotating recievers. Our coach was in the hospital with his wife who was having a baby, and another coach who had never worked with us was in charge. After a touchdown, we did not have kickers, and so 2 pt conversions were the norm. I ran the play in, but told the Qb a different play, a pass to me. The play got messed up, but he threw it to me, and two points! Because it got messed up, I think the coach did not know what I had done, or maybe he just didn't understand or care, because he never said anything about it. worst: tie As a Baylor fan, there were lots of lousy football games, but my worst sports memory was Baylor vs. UT in '97 at homecoming. As usual, we were having a terrible year, and I had been up all night the night before working on homecoming stuff. I stayed for part of the game, and then we got behind and I went home to take a nap before the festivities that night, not wanting to watch yet another defeat. I woke up hearing the bells on campus ringing as the freshmen carried the goalpost through the campus. We never had much to cheer for, but I had missed the one huge upset of my years there. I tried to learn my lesson and stay till the end, or near the end of every game after that, only to watch them lose. Alot. and 7th grade basketball, I was on the B team. The last game of the season the coach had the A team rest for the city tournament, and was going to divide the B team and have us play the A and B teams of a really lousy middle school. I was on the "upper half" of the B team, until I got in trouble for goofing off during practice, when the coach put me with the group playing the other school's B team. The morning after the game, my name was on the announcements as the high scorer of the "C team" game. The only time all year I had made the morning announcements, and I was thoroughly embarassed!