you still had options. Baseball, golf, hockey, 3 point specialist, tennis.
Bowling, NASCAR, scrappy O-lineman, pocket QB, assist machine, Textbook boxer....
At what point did you realize you weren't going to the league?
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Bowling, NASCAR, scrappy O-lineman, pocket QB, assist machine, Textbook boxer....
GoddamnyamanProf
Countdown to Armageddon
Lol at the excuses
Bowling, NASCAR, scrappy O-lineman, pocket QB, assist machine, Textbook boxer....
He could've been a long snapper, place kicker, punter, poker player swimmer, shot put, lacrosse. Black athletes are limited to football, basketball and track.
lack of work ethic aint an excuse, that's just the sad reality. In addition to that, my downfall was just plain stupidity. Insisting on playing WR on a team that rarely passed the ball was dumb on my part.
Powerlifter, D-list soccer player, horse jockey, world class ping pong player...
fukk you mean I'm not going to the league
That dream ain't ever gonna die for me
motivation. A lot of nikkaz have the physical talent but not the motivation/drive. My cousin is 6'7" can dribble with either hand, has a wet jumper, but became a graphic designer.I think the difference for most people is just the motivation. F*ckin' Drew Brees is an NFL quarterback for cryin' out loud, if you're willin' to bust your azz I think most people could at least be semi-pro.
You're not lying, motivation and all of that sounds like a cliche but that shyt is really important.
The environment plays a part as well. My high school football program was ass and the coaches sucked. They wasn't really trying to develop players. The high school I went to my senior year was one of the best in the state, state of the art weight room, and organized off season programs. College scouts routinely came by so that would motivate anybody. My high school before that was stuck in the 80's. The uniforms were
and the facilities was shytty. The coaches didn't actively recruit students. We had one of the best baseball programs but they gave no fukks about football. My junior year was the first time that school went to the playoffs in 22 years and it wasn't because of winning (they lost the last game of the year which would've sent them in), the coach snitched on the team that beat us in the final game. A foreign exchange student who never played football before and always wanted to, played the final 3 minutes 2 blow out wins forcing them to forfeit those games.Oh... and moms didn't like me playing football so she never supported it. No rides to school to work out, nothing.
EA
A Pound & A Prayer
I was 16, playing in the national league and my coach made me play Center (I was 6'3 and one of the tallest on the team) despite the fact that I was in the playing as a SG the entire summer at a basketball camp in Florida.
Obviously, I wasn't happy being played out of position and this led to me butting heads with my coach and losing my passion for the game, putting on weight and I just fell back and focused on my studies instead.
5 years later, I'm 6'5 with a decent jumper and a good slashing game and I always hear people say to me "Man, you should have at least been playing college ball, you were that good" and I just sit back and cuss. This is why I hate the British Basketball system.
Obviously, I wasn't happy being played out of position and this led to me butting heads with my coach and losing my passion for the game, putting on weight and I just fell back and focused on my studies instead.
5 years later, I'm 6'5 with a decent jumper and a good slashing game and I always hear people say to me "Man, you should have at least been playing college ball, you were that good" and I just sit back and cuss. This is why I hate the British Basketball system.
When I had dudes like 10 inches shorter than me blocking my shots
NYC Rebel
...on the otherside of the pond
I'm always going to look back and get angry at not trying. I can say honestly that post pop Warner, I never experienced anything less than being one of the best players on the field, even at OU. Word to my kids, I never encountered that "I don't belong here" experience. I just never had the discipline, commitment and caring for football like other guys did.
This thread is why I said I wish rap was more like sports. In sports reality hits your ass real quick.
40 year old nikkas thinking they one hit away.
40 year old nikkas thinking they one hit away.
Hollywood Co
Primetime Reppin
When I was out practicing the coach's favorites but still wasn't getting PT in college
Unstable family life.My family moved around too damn much.Between 6th-12th grade, I went to 12 different schools.All between Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Diego, Phoenix, and Chicago.
I spent a semester of my 8th grade year in Phoenix.School was mostly Mexicans, but the principle was Black.I didn't know it at the time, but he saw me playing basketball during lunch break, and thought I was pretty good.
He called me into his office and asked me about my parents and shyt like that.Told me that I had "hot hands" (J was LETHAL like that.Young Steph Curry levels)and he wanted to introduce me to a buddy of his who was a local high school coach(South Mountain High).
Came to my house later that day and told me he convinced his buddy to give me a sholarship.shyt bugged me out because I was like "A high school scholarship? I thought that shyt was only for college?"
That was right before summer vacation.....we ended up moving back to San Diego like 2 months later.
Got to San Diego and the B Ball competition out there was bunk.Use to run at Balboa Park / Clay Park mostly.
It was like a lot of them dudes had never seen a true baller before.Dudes was stealing my pre game rituals/ swag.When I first hit the court, I don't start with lay ups.....I start off by shooting halfcourt J's and then gradually work my way closer to the basket.Next thing I know, I start seeing all these nikkaz with Jacque Vaughn like J's trying to do the same thing
San Diego is definitely more inclined to football
When I turned 20, I said fukk it.Started getting more into books.I realized basketball was my "obsessive compulsive" behavior.It distracted me from a lot of the bullshyt that was going on at home.That's why Ill always love the game.Even though I didn't make it to the big leagues, the game was still literally a life saver for me.Might be the best friend I ever had
You went to Clay Park for competition?
