As an offshoot of the "were you good at sports" thread, who are the best you played against (or with as a teammate)?
While playing HS football, the best I played against was Jerome Brown, 2 time all-American DT at UM, then all-pro DT for the Eagles. He was two years younger than me, but even as a sophomore in HS he was a man among boys. Damn near killed our center, who spent the whole night snapping the ball then flying backwards when Brown hit him. Runnerup would be Roosevelt Snipes; FSU fans of the right age would remember him, he was a very, very good RB for us in the early/mid 80s. Got drafted by the 49ers and was expected to be a key player in their offense, but got in trouble for nose candy & never ended up playing in the NFL - but was certainly talented enough to have been a good NFL player.
On the links, I played against Woody Austin in a number of junior tournaments.
When I was home from college for the summer after my freshman year, one of my college teammates put together an indoor soccer team in a rec league; team consisted of a handful of our college team, along with some old high school teammates of some of us. Our first game was against a team that had borrowed the Tampa pro soccer franchise name, The Rowdies. When we got there for the game, it was actually the !%^^%!#%^ Rowdies. The pro league had recently suspended operations, and the guys whe were still in town decided to play to stay in shape. Their team included Rodney Marsh (he'd retired from active play but was coaching at the time), Winston Dubose (who'd played in net for the USMNT), a handful of other guys who'd played for the national teams of their home country, and a couple of the assistant coaches. They obviously killed everyone in the league, but they were all pretty cool and would often stick around and have a few beers while watching the following league game.
While at FSU I played against a number of the school's scholarship athletes in intramurals in sports other than their scholarship sport. One IM basketball team I faced included four future NFL players (WRs Jet Hester & Hassan Jones, OL Jamie Dukes, LB Jesse Solomon). I got caught alone trying to stop numerous 2 on 1 against Hester & Jones; pretty much just let them dunk - sure as hell wasn't gonna be the guy who hurt one of our star WRs to not give up another dunk when we were already down by 25 points.
While playing HS football, the best I played against was Jerome Brown, 2 time all-American DT at UM, then all-pro DT for the Eagles. He was two years younger than me, but even as a sophomore in HS he was a man among boys. Damn near killed our center, who spent the whole night snapping the ball then flying backwards when Brown hit him. Runnerup would be Roosevelt Snipes; FSU fans of the right age would remember him, he was a very, very good RB for us in the early/mid 80s. Got drafted by the 49ers and was expected to be a key player in their offense, but got in trouble for nose candy & never ended up playing in the NFL - but was certainly talented enough to have been a good NFL player.
On the links, I played against Woody Austin in a number of junior tournaments.
When I was home from college for the summer after my freshman year, one of my college teammates put together an indoor soccer team in a rec league; team consisted of a handful of our college team, along with some old high school teammates of some of us. Our first game was against a team that had borrowed the Tampa pro soccer franchise name, The Rowdies. When we got there for the game, it was actually the !%^^%!#%^ Rowdies. The pro league had recently suspended operations, and the guys whe were still in town decided to play to stay in shape. Their team included Rodney Marsh (he'd retired from active play but was coaching at the time), Winston Dubose (who'd played in net for the USMNT), a handful of other guys who'd played for the national teams of their home country, and a couple of the assistant coaches. They obviously killed everyone in the league, but they were all pretty cool and would often stick around and have a few beers while watching the following league game.
While at FSU I played against a number of the school's scholarship athletes in intramurals in sports other than their scholarship sport. One IM basketball team I faced included four future NFL players (WRs Jet Hester & Hassan Jones, OL Jamie Dukes, LB Jesse Solomon). I got caught alone trying to stop numerous 2 on 1 against Hester & Jones; pretty much just let them dunk - sure as hell wasn't gonna be the guy who hurt one of our star WRs to not give up another dunk when we were already down by 25 points.
