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Fuck the offseason! topic: What did you get helmet stickers for when you played HS football?


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defense: sacks, takeaways, Tackles for loss, big hit of the week, leading team in tackles for the week, splitting double-teams to make a play

offense: receiving yards, rushing yards, passing yards within certain parameters. TDs.  pancake blocks, 

Team goals- winning TO battle, allowing 7 points or fewer, 

 

so basically lots of shit, and different stickers went for defense/ offense/ team goals.    My Senior year was the only time in all of my years playing football that we did stickers, and we didn't put them on our helmets.  They went on a board in each player's  locker.  At the end of the season you got to keep it, but during the days leading up to the games, you'd walk around seeing who had the most... LOL.  I thought it was a good motivator.

 

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I had an interception in 7th grade football. I was tackled and there was a reasonable sized dog pile. I realized I didn’t like being tackled so that was the end of that. I fizzled out quickly, figured out I wanted a lacy bra instead of a helmet sticker so I traded in. I That was that. I found out quickly I preferred the view from the stands. But hey, I fucking intercepted that QB, hell yeah. 

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2 hours ago, Kel Varnsen said:

I made a good tackle on Robert Strait.

I remember watching my older brother play against him with Cuero when I was like 5. They won state and that game was the only time that season where Cuero didn’t have the lead the whole game. Straight went thru a really hard patch of drug and alcohol problems, like sweeping the local gas station parking lot in Cuero for a 40 bad but I think he turned it around and is doing much better.  

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8 hours ago, troph said:

I had an interception in 7th grade football. I was tackled and there was a reasonable sized dog pile. I realized I didn’t like being tackled so that was the end of that. I fizzled out quickly, figured out I wanted a lacy bra instead of a helmet sticker so I traded in. I That was that. I found out quickly I preferred the view from the stands. But hey, I fucking intercepted that QB, hell yeah. 

That's kind of the moment of truth in football: either you like contact or don't.  There is very little middle ground, and I never thought less of a player who early on said, "Fuck this, I'm out."

For me it was baseball and not being able to hit them fancy-ass pitches, as in, anything but the heater.  I hated striking out worse than practically anything in sports, but I damned sure did it a lot.

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There were stickers for the normal stuff like turn overs and touchdowns but the one I especially remember as a receiver was putting DB's on their butts. You would get a sticker for ever 5 times per game you pancaked a DB or cut them where they ended up on the ground. I took pride in those. 

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We got stars, which didn't really match the school or mascot.  

Same as everyone else, big plays, TD, FG's, sacks, Int's fumbles caused/recovered...rushing/receiving yards over a certain threshold.  Big blocks.

Whole team got one for wins

I think we only did it my so/Jr. year.    New coach for senior year.  He sucked balls.

 

 

 

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Playing high school ball? Hell, I only weighed 120 as a senior and our team was state-ranked, so I didn't even bother. Band nerd and 13th chair baritone (out of 14 -- we also had a very large and great band, but I sucked except at marching). So I would have gotten maybe two quarter-note stickers the whole time, and mostly for doing a good job putting coolers on the bus.

But I did go to the prom with a cheerleader captain and also got a couple of these:

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3 hours ago, Rimbo said:

are you fucking kidding me

I lettered three times: band, orchestra, and computers

i ranked at the national Latin convention

you think a pencil necked 125 pounds soaking wet NERD like me ever played football?

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if a trans girl can do it, so could you. just saying.

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We received stickers for the typical team and individual accomplishments. However, if you were either the offensive or defensive player of the week you also got a nice set of towels and washcloths of a different color for the week to use for showering after practice.

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No helmet stickers

but one time our kickoff team got two turnovers in a game and the coach got us skull and cross bones for the next game. We replaced the logo on one side and wore them for a half, then the reffies said it wasn’t ok to have two different stickers or maybe since it was only 11 guys couldn’t have different than the rest of the team. 
 

helmet stickers are pretty cringe though

somehow Quinn had a bunch for Ohio State and played like 4 snaps?

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1 hour ago, troph said:

if a trans girl can do it, so could you. just saying.

The first trans woman I knew was a defensive end and California State champion heavyweight wrestler in high school, so what you're saying doesn't really jibe with my experience.

I later lived across the street from the linebacker who forced the fumble that led to Colorado State's huge upset of Arizona back in the early 90's, and he thought I could've played, too; I had to explain to him that I didn't fill out my frame until I was 26 years old.

Me in high school was not what you'd expect to see on a football field.

Devastatingly sexy, though.

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5 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

The first trans woman I knew was a defensive end and California State champion heavyweight wrestler in high school,

... she hip-threw an OL once, pulling wrestling moves on em... 🤣

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5 hours ago, Rimbo said:

... she hip-threw an OL once, pulling wrestling moves on em... 🤣

I as a scrawny looking kid with a head commiserate in size with my tall drink of water adult self but a body that resembled a malnourished sub-Saharan   Starving child. Imagine a white Ethiopian kid from the  Food Aid era - that was me. Thankfully I grew into my head and well I was never the stocky lineman. 

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