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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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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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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 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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I had to pos rep that description. I think we may have had some type of sticker for the team goals, but it went on a board. We may have gotten something for tackles, I don’t remember. It’s been nearly 30 years, 2 gran mals and 1 concussion ago. Not to mention a severe lack of sleep from shift work and kids.

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The one I remember the most was you got a sticker if you were on the field for a scoring play, so everyone wanted to be on the extra point team.  

Dad was my HC and we only got a football sticker for a victory (Fr to Jr years), starting from the numbers on the back, to hopefully making a stripe across the top. He didn’t like filling helmets with stickers (OSU), but liked a clean helmet. Senior year he did away with the weekly stickers.

I did get the request my Senior year to get black Nike cleats, because I thought the 5-8 big CFB programs that used them looked cool. He always thought they, black shoes, made you look slow, which we were anyways! Talking 87-88.

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7 hours ago, troph said:

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. 

I was, and still am, the other way around. Proportionally, I'm built as if you're looking up at me. Super long legs, a torso too small to hold on all my internal organs without a belly popping out (even when I was scrawny, I had a gut) and a wee itty bitty head. (To make it truly Surly: The only gal I was able to comfortably 69 was under 5 feet tall. Everyone else was too long.)

Not only was I skinny, I was small for my age up until high school, where my legs finally pushed the rest of me up to average height.

Even in undergrad, me and my gang would head out to the County Line and order all you can eat. They were 240, 260, and 280 lbs; I was (as mentioned) 125. One night we each ate a full platter each. I was eating as much as they were... couldn't gain weight. Just a stupid fast metabolism that wouldn't let me gain fat NOR muscle until my mid 20s.

I never had trouble hitting people and my love of the mosh pit proves that. But I would've died on a high school football field.

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On 1/30/2025 at 7:17 PM, NBHorn7 said:

We got a skull and bones sticker for a big defensive play, like a fumble recovery or interception.

Coaches gave them out for whatever they deemed a "big defensive play" after reviewing the game film.

Hah yeah we got those too; always got one for causing or recovering a fumble, an interception or sack, knocking down a pass (in the secondary or at the LOS), but they’d always give them out watching the film for shit like occupying two blockers, form tackles, big sticks, etc.

That was the first thing you look for when you went up against a team you’d never played before - where’s the motherfucker with all the stickers?

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I think we stopped my senior year, but they were always group awards for meeting certain goals.

Like if we had 100 yards rushing all the lineman and backs would get one.  Goalline stand the defensive front would get one.  All punts within the 35, no kickoff beyond the 25, no missed fg/xp - those special teams units.

I don't really remember all the offensive and defensive ones.

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We got a skull and bones sticker for a big defensive play, like a fumble recovery or interception.
Coaches gave them out for whatever they deemed a "big defensive play" after reviewing the game film.

My Sophomore year, my Dad (varsity HC) wouldn’t put a Fr or Soph on the Varsity. Small 3-A school, so there was only 22 of us to run the Scout Team my Sophomore year. Me and a couple other DLs used to beat the OL (guards) to submission each day, as we were stronger/heavier. They were “pulling guards” weighing 185-195 (late ‘80s) and their OL coach, our JV Coach, would get on their ass after about every other play. On Defense, we didn’t really run the scout team (opponent), as he and my Dad just wanted to wear their ass out in practice.

There was only 22 of us, so Dad got red skull and crossbones decals to adorn our silver helmets. Hell, we were better than the Varsity and it showed in practice! Yes, we’re talking practice. We called ourselves the Suicide Squad - roughly 1985-86.

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On 1/30/2025 at 10:19 PM, Hook1997 said:

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.  

He's doing pretty well actually. He's married and has a couple of kids in Victoria. 

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On 1/30/2025 at 5:05 PM, Beau Vine said:

No man, the starting QB took my holder's job so he could get easy stickers.  I was the dude holding snaps for the kicker all off-season!

Tee Vine? ;-)

Thankfully my high school didn't hand out helmet stickers because even in HS I knew that shit was weak sauce.  Of course it helped that I hated the Buckeyes back then too I guess.

The level of annoyance I have that Michigan instiuted helmet stickers is not quantifiable and if Texas does it I might need to go to jail for a long time.

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Just now, Beau Vine said:

Michigan instituted helmet stickers 50 or so years ago, so that's some impressive endurance.

https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/34839671/how-helmet-decals-tell-story-michigan-ohio-state

No for the love of god what is wrong with y'all??

Michigan installed that dumbass shit in 2021

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On 1/31/2025 at 6:20 AM, DigglerontheHoof said:

We didn't do the helmet sticker shit. 

 

 

On 1/30/2025 at 5:59 PM, Iceman said:

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We had never heard of them until I stared watching the Big10.  I did not realize those guys were in the neighboring town.

 

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/41720815/ryan-day-chip-kelly-started-smalltown-new-hampshire

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5 hours ago, Pimphand said:

https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/34839671/how-helmet-decals-tell-story-michigan-ohio-state

No for the love of god what is wrong with y'all??

Michigan installed that dumbass shit in 2021

I’m not sure you read your own article.

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In 1969, Michigan hired Schembechler and he brought his sticker reward system to Michigan from Miami (Ohio). Longtime equipment manager Jon Falk, who arrived in 1974, would cut out gold footballs by hand and glue them onto helmets his first season. In 1975, Falk added a Wolverines logo to the decals, which became a staple for Schembechler-era stars. They remained until Lloyd Carr took over as coach in 1995 and ended the sticker reward system.  
 

Coach Jim Harbaugh, whose helmet was filled with Wolverines stickers as a star quarterback in the 1980s, brought back the tradition upon returning to lead the program in 2015. As Michigan neared 1,000 all-time wins, Harbaugh changed the philosophy in 2021, opting for a team-based model that includes the all-time wins tally on the victory decals.

 

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Good play stickers were for varsity only. The coaches at my school were shitheads freshman year who only played the same 15 kids both ways having just them rotate while me and 30 other guys never(or rarely) got to play. Since they didn't take attendance for away games, we would all go home instead since we knew weren't gonna get to play. I gave the middle finger to the football program and joined the wrestling team instead. Best decision I ever made.  

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47 minutes ago, Longboard Horn said:

 Since they didn't take attendance for away games, we would all go home instead since we knew weren't gonna get to play. 

Take attendance? I’ve never heard of that for football.  Imagine the captains having everyone in formation. ‘. Coach, all players present and accounted for, sir!’

Glad you found a sport that was worth it for you!

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4 minutes ago, Iceman said:

Take attendance? I’ve never heard of that for football.  Imagine the captains having everyone in formation. ‘. Coach, all players present and accounted for, sir!’

Glad you found a sport that was worth it for you!

Yes on home game days we would be in the locker room and they would take attendance. However, they never did that for away games which I never understood. It was the most ridiculous shit ever. 

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We didn’t have helmet stickers, because they’re stupid, but I used to get positive recognition for what is now targeting all the time. 

One game against Lubbock Monterrey I de-cleated a linebacker and sent him out of the game. He never saw me coming even though I hit him legally in the front. He had his head turned and I just eat-holed him, launching helmet to helmet. The ref yelled “Hell of a block son”. 

Aaron Humphrey was on that Lubbock team and they beat the crap out of us. But I got a few nice blocks and a couple catches. 

Good times in the 90’s. 

Edit: I also played corner, and that game was the only time all year that I just got beat on a TD. No blown coverage or missed assignment. They just had a dude that was 6’ 3” and ran a 4.4 and went right by me. Dude had D1 offers but I think he never got his shit together. 

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1 hour ago, Longboard Horn said:

Good play stickers were for varsity only. The coaches at my school were shitheads freshman year who only played the same 15 kids both ways having just them rotate while me and 30 other guys never(or rarely) got to play. Since they didn't take attendance for away games, we would all go home instead since we knew weren't gonna get to play. I gave the middle finger to the football program and joined the wrestling team instead. Best decision I ever made.  

I’ve seen similar in just the past 3 years.  Not the attendance but the play time.  Most of the kids get a little special teams work but for some they got little beyond that.  This would even be “A” team players.

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