What Made You Give Up Your 'Sports' Dreams? (Basketball, Football & etc)

[Heafcliffe]

Height (or should I say lack of)

 

[SirReginald]

Height (or should I say lack of)

Short?

 

[Kwéyòl]

I didn’t start sooner

 

[Dominic Decoco]

Www.indeed.com

Get a job dude

 

[010101]

College coach black balled me fukked my eligibility in juco

certain types of nikkas ain't built for team sports

we some coach killers

you know nikkas who got league talent but rather shake it out in the streets cause coaches can be hoes

politics is a bytch

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[Crude Abolitionist]

Does your job coach know what your doing right now?

 

[Roid Jones]

I couldn't get time off work

 

[L&HH]

For most reality sets in. You ain’t as good as you think you are.

 

[FishNGrits]

Got to college did drugs and partied with scum bags and dropped out.

 

[NerdNash]

Weed.

 

[NerdNash]

Besides weed I was always fearful of the bright lights.

 

[Womb Raider]

I wasn’t shyt

Couldn’t see, couldn’t jump, had no feel for the game and I’m short

 

[FocusedDaily]

I was pretty nice playing Outside line backer. Was huge, had good speed and footwork, was having fun.

We didn't have a huge program, and they promoted me to varsity almost immediately. I was LOVING it, working out, playing, chicks loved the athletes at our school.

Long story short, the team captain was older and also played LB/Safety and he was incredible, one day sophomore year we were lining up against each other running drills in practice, and he hit me with a swim move/elbow drop that took all my will to ever put on a football uniform again.

I layed on the field gasping for life for a good 2 minutes, before I let anyone help me up and walk to the sideline, I called my mother to get me and never suited up again. The rest of the team teased/harassed me about quitting for an entire year. I started hanging out in the computer lab after school instead, and ended up earning a full ride to college that way.

 

[Gold]

I have the knees of men twice my age.

Too many injuries.
Anyone who has been injured alot knows how hard rehab is.

At some point you just get tired of it.

 

[King of Creampies]

I was pretty nice playing Outside line backer. Was huge, had good speed and footwork, was having fun.

We didn't have a huge program, and they promoted me to varsity almost immediately. I was LOVING it, working out, playing, chicks loved the athletes at our school.

Long story short, the team captain was older and also played LB/Safety and he was incredible, one day sophomore year we were lining up against each other running drills in practice, and he hit me with a swim move/elbow drop that took all my will to ever put on a football uniform again.

I layed on the field gasping for life for a good 2 minutes, before I let anyone help me up and walk to the sideline, I called my mother to get me and never suited up again. The rest of the team teased/harassed me about quitting for an entire year. I started hanging out in the computer lab after school instead, and ended up earning a full ride to college that way.

Gotta love some of the honesty in these stories.

I never had the heart to try out so reading these really are powerful to see how black men can still take a L and make something out of it.