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In 89 I saw Bo Jackson throw the ball basically end zone to end zone screwing around in warmups before a game against the Oilers

In tecmo super bowl the best play in the whole game is Randall Cunningham dropped backed to his end zone throwing to the other one, but I'm not sure if that counts.  

Here's Mahomes launching a ball https://ftw.usatoday.com/2018/10/patrick-mahomes-throw-football-end-zone-warmups-video-chiefs-broncos-nfl-arm

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On 11/16/2018 at 4:05 PM, LebongJames said:

I don’t know how far I can throw a football but at the Ole Miss game in 2013 we snuck beer from the Corral Club back to our seats about 40 rows up. After quite a few terrible plays and being over served I chunked my beer 1/4 full from the stands to the closest hash line. Not a classy thing to do but it is still brought up with my college buddies every game we watch together now. It was a heave.

 

On 11/15/2018 at 6:58 PM, OU Sucks said:

Further than Kentucky's QB.

Pfft, dude can chuck it.  It’s just not anywhere near his intended target. 

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19 minutes ago, HornsOverIthaca said:

Is American gladiators style jousting up next?

Taken for consideration.

 

We want them to run an obstacle course( see also: traverse the playground) while we drunkenly bomb them with racquetballs or nerf guns.

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You really have no idea how much your athletic abilities have regressed as you age until you see it in cold, hard numbers.  I played HS baseball.  Topped out in the low 80s as a lefty.

Fast forward 20 years.  I started playing in a sandlot baseball league here in Austin.  So much fun.  Way better than softball.  And it scratched my itch to pitch again.  But way more relaxed than the competitive men's league in Austin.  I've been playing the last two summers, and my arm feels good.  Really good.  I seriously thought in my head that I was back touching 80 with my fastball (thank God I never said that to anyone else).  WRONG.  Got in front of a radar gun and struggled to hit 70.  Very humbling.  Knowing that cold hard truth,  I doubt I could throw an NCAA football 50 yds at this point in life let alone a NFL football.  Where's the Nerf Turbo when you need it???

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4 hours ago, Spaulding Smails said:

You really have no idea how much your athletic abilities have regressed as you age until you see it in cold, hard numbers.  I played HS baseball.  Topped out in the low 80s as a lefty.

Fast forward 20 years.  I started playing in a sandlot baseball league here in Austin.  So much fun.  Way better than softball.  And it scratched my itch to pitch again.  But way more relaxed than the competitive men's league in Austin.  I've been playing the last two summers, and my arm feels good.  Really good.  I seriously thought in my head that I was back touching 80 with my fastball (thank God I never said that to anyone else).  WRONG.  Got in front of a radar gun and struggled to hit 70.  Very humbling.  Knowing that cold hard truth,  I doubt I could throw an NCAA football 50 yds at this point in life let alone a NFL football.  Where's the Nerf Turbo when you need it???

Pretty much the same here, mid to high 80's on occasion.  Years later, low 60's at best.  at least I only missed the strike zone by being a little high.  By a little high, I mean about 6-8' high.

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6 hours ago, Spaulding Smails said:

You really have no idea how much your athletic abilities have regressed as you age until you see it in cold, hard numbers.  I played HS baseball.  Topped out in the low 80s as a lefty.

Fast forward 20 years.  I started playing in a sandlot baseball league here in Austin.  So much fun.  Way better than softball.  And it scratched my itch to pitch again.  But way more relaxed than the competitive men's league in Austin.  I've been playing the last two summers, and my arm feels good.  Really good.  I seriously thought in my head that I was back touching 80 with my fastball (thank God I never said that to anyone else).  WRONG.  Got in front of a radar gun and struggled to hit 70.  Very humbling.  Knowing that cold hard truth,  I doubt I could throw an NCAA football 50 yds at this point in life let alone a NFL football.  Where's the Nerf Turbo when you need it???

Do you have kids?  If not, wait until you do and your ego takes over.

My teenage son is really fast.  I have no idea where he got the speed, but he has it.  Not TRULY elite, but fast enough to consistently medal at the zone level in middle school on sprints and sprint relays.  He won the long jump.  Now that he's a freshman, we'll see how far he gets.  At any rate, we were on a beach vacation a year ago or so and my dumb ass -- no doubt fortified by several beers -- decided to challenge him to a sprint down the sand.  Good lord.  I think I tore a hamstring on step 3 and was basically done by step 5.  It was great comedy for the rest of my family.

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18 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Do you have kids?  If not, wait until you do and your ego takes over.

My teenage son is really fast.  I have no idea where he got the speed, but he has it.  Not TRULY elite, but fast enough to consistently medal at the zone level in middle school on sprints and sprint relays.  He won the long jump.  Now that he's a freshman, we'll see how far he gets.  At any rate, we were on a beach vacation a year ago or so and my dumb ass -- no doubt fortified by several beers -- decided to challenge him to a sprint down the sand.  Good lord.  I think I tore a hamstring on step 3 and was basically done by step 5.  It was great comedy for the rest of my family.

Maybe he has an extra muscle in his legs?

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CSB: One of my cousins was a top tier, highly recruited, D1 QB.  He set many, many national passing records throughout his HS playing days.   He ended up going to Bama and before he could see playing time he tore his rotator cuff.  A couple years ago I was talking with him about it all and asked why he stopped playing.  His response was before he hurt his shoulder he could throw it 70+ yards consistently and then after he could only throw it 40 yards.  

Like many of you, I'm like damn, I wish I could throw it 40 yards.  These days I feel good if I can throw a softball, one hop, from the middle of the outfield. 

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On 11/19/2018 at 6:26 PM, Elvis said:

I bet I can still run my 9.9 100m dash now that I'll be 40 next month.  Maybe even 8.9 now as I keep getting more awesome.

I can run a 4.5............25.

As an aside I have been in the facility for some pretty impressive NFL Days at Pitt and I saw Anthony Dorsett run two straight 4.29s. All the NFL guys were looking at each other and asking if they all got the same number.

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On November 19, 2018 at 4:14 PM, jimmyjazz said:

Do you have kids?  If not, wait until you do and your ego takes over.

My teenage son is really fast.  I have no idea where he got the speed, but he has it.  Not TRULY elite, but fast enough to consistently medal at the zone level in middle school on sprints and sprint relays.  He won the long jump.  Now that he's a freshman, we'll see how far he gets.  At any rate, we were on a beach vacation a year ago or so and my dumb ass -- no doubt fortified by several beers -- decided to challenge him to a sprint down the sand.  Good lord.  I think I tore a hamstring on step 3 and was basically done by step 5.  It was great comedy for the rest of my family.

My oldest is 10, so I'm still a few years away from that, but I can certainly see it gaining on me in the rearview mirror.  I was throwing BP to him a few weeks ago at the ball field.  We were the only ones there, so I didn't bother with the L screen.  I damn near took one in the chops.  So glad I had my glove on.  I've always felt fine throwing from the mound and having enough time to react, but he's just hitting the ball too hard now.  

At least he's as slow as I was, so I have a few more years before he can out run me.  

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2 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:

Have any y'all ever been able to kick a ball pretty far? I used to be able to kick a 40yd FG with an NCAA ball back in high school.

 

I never could punt worth a shit though. My cousin was a punter in high school. He could boom 50 yard punts with ease.

 

 

My previous employer had our corporate meeting in Indianapolis six years ago.  One evening, they rented out the RCA dome and we got to go onto the field to screw around.  It was pretty sweet.  They had NFL balls out there, and of course, dudes were trying to kick field goals.  Of the 500 or so employees, I think I saw two guys kick anything over 30 yds.  I didn't even try.  Again, a bunch of old, out-of-shape fuckers.  

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2 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:

Have any y'all ever been able to kick a ball pretty far? I used to be able to kick a 40yd FG with an NCAA ball back in high school.

 

I never could punt worth a shit though. My cousin was a punter in high school. He could boom 50 yard punts with ease.

 

 

Yup, I was a kicker. Self-taught. But, I had four vertebrae fused, up high, and my neck could never withstand a tackle, or a big hit. My dad, also our primary doctor even though he was a Radiologist, was going to allow me to play, but said I had to get the hell off the field after a kickoff. In high school most of my kickoffs, in practice and just goofing off, were five-yards deep. As a 16-year old I was money from 45.

Pitt Stadium used to always be open, as long as there was no practice for football or the band and a lot of my friends who played on the team kept telling me I should come out for the team, because they had seen me kicking before, or after practice. But I just had an aversion to getting killed on a tackle. Although, it would have been great to try, once. 

So, I did some coaching of some kids I knew and played soccer with and had a lot of fun that way.

It was funny in that I improved as a punter as I got older. But I was always a good kicker. Even now, as an old bastard, I would have no trouble from 35-yards out because I still kick around the soccer ball.

Kicking footballs is a ton of fun.

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Dabryan Blanton is the fastest person I've seen at the high school level player I've seen up close. He was a grade ahead of me. He got recruited by OU but never stuck with football. I think he played one year. He then went full time for track. Saw him run at the Texas Relays and beat everyone pretty good in the 100. Dude could fly. And being in 3a for high school, looked even faster I think he got signed by Adidas. No idea what he's up to these days.

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3 hours ago, BurntEyes said:

I went to HS with Michael Johnson.

Back when DKR was open to the public off hours with no real rules other than "no baseball", my buddy and I used to go there pretty regularly and throw a football (or baseball, ahem).  One day the Baylor track team had come down to Austin and was training for Olympic tryouts on the track.  

Michael Johnson was just unreal to watch.  When he'd run the 200 you felt like you actually had to rotate your body to keep an eye on him as he made the turn.  He was so much faster than everyone else it was absurd.

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On 11/18/2018 at 4:50 AM, RPM said:

It was meth fueled.

Tolliver was country enough, but never got in any trouble like that.

Saw him at the craps tables at Eldorado in Shreveport about 5 years ago.  Had golf duds on and 2-3 of his golf buddies had apparently beaten him to the casino.  As he walked past security, their table yelled for him to get over there.  He was trying to lay low.  It didn't work.

Must be a tough life.  For what he did, coming out of Boyd, Texas; it could have been a shit-ton worse... like with meth or some shit.

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5 hours ago, BurntEyes said:

I went to HS with Michael Johnson.

Seeing people like that is run is freaky/amazing.

I actually ran 40s, after some adult beverages and shit talk agains Mike Adams and Lovell Pinkney is college on the street. WRs for Texas when I was in school. They were a tad faster than me.

It is. It's crazy. I have some friends who swam in college, one even at a top program, Stanford, and he talked about bing in the pool at the same time with Michael Phelps and just how insane it was.

Roger Kingdom was at Pitt when I was an underclassman and to see him up at the stadium running was awesome. After he won at the '84 Olympics in LA he used to always illegally park his Porsche 944 on one of the main streets on campus. In '95 Roger won bronze at the World Games in Greece and I was on the same flight as he coming back to Pittsburgh from Frankfurt. I think I was the only person on the plane who knew who he was/is so I gave him a Hail to Pitt. He liked that.

At Pitt too we had Lee McRae who at one point was the fastest in the world in the indoor 55-meter with a 6.0, had broken the record that was set by Carl Lewis. We saw Lee often, as I lumbered around the indoor track, at the Fitzgerald Field House.

To see world-class athletes train, or compete, up close is an amazing thing.

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My buddy was a good soccer player in high school, and place kicked for the high school football team.  Fast forward 25 years, he’s bragging at the office that he could still kick a 50 yard field goal.  So on one of our trips to eastern Ohio on a project, he brought a ball and tee, and a small group of us went to the high school field in Cambridge Ohio, to call his bluff.  After some throwing the ball around and generally having a good time he took a couple warm up kicks, then started kicking field goals from 15, 20, 25 etc., working his way up.  To his credit he did make it from 45 yards which was pretty impressive, but not 50.  He confessed months later that he had jacked up his hamstring with the kicks, and never wanted to try that again. 

Sorry for CSB/tl/dr

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Played small college baseball (shortstop) and hardest I ever threw was 85-86 pitching in a summer league game. 18 years and 50 lbs later, my wife buys a radar gun (not sure why) and I bust out a baseball to see what I could do. I’ve played a little softball over the years, but hadn’t picked up a baseball in at least 15 years. 

I topped out at 68 mph with most around 63-65. Couldn’t believe it. I was thinking I’d hit 75-77 at a minimum.  This was about 2 years ago and I’ve been playing softball more regularly, so would be interesting to try again. 

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I was hitting 50 yards with a football as a 120 lb freshman in HS, but never could throw much further than that even as my arm got a lot stronger.

Played in a flag football league about 10-12 years ago and would spell our QB from time to time. I had a way stronger arm than him (I could throw it on a rope from 20-25 yards), but he could throw it about 10 yards further than me on the long balls. Couldn’t figure that one out.  

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3 hours ago, EZ$ said:

Played small college baseball (shortstop) and hardest I ever threw was 85-86 pitching in a summer league game. 18 years and 50 lbs later, my wife buys a radar gun (not sure why) and I bust out a baseball to see what I could do. I’ve played a little softball over the years, but hadn’t picked up a baseball in at least 15 years. 

I topped out at 68 mph with most around 63-65. Couldn’t believe it. I was thinking I’d hit 75-77 at a minimum.  This was about 2 years ago and I’ve been playing softball more regularly, so would be interesting to try again. 

you sure she was doing it right?  you're right around 40, that's a huge dropoff. 

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3 minutes ago, EZ$ said:

Im thinking it’s probably not the most accurate radar gun. 

that's probably the problem.  barring any significant injuries to your arm or core you should be able to easily get within 10 mph of your top speed well into your late 40s.

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Played small college baseball (shortstop) and hardest I ever threw was 85-86 pitching in a summer league game. 18 years and 50 lbs later, my wife buys a radar gun (not sure why) and I bust out a baseball to see what I could do. I’ve played a little softball over the years, but hadn’t picked up a baseball in at least 15 years. 

I topped out at 68 mph with most around 63-65. Couldn’t believe it. I was thinking I’d hit 75-77 at a minimum.  This was about 2 years ago and I’ve been playing softball more regularly, so would be interesting to try again. 

 

Yes, throwing velocity falls off a cliff when you stop playing and it's genuinely shocking when you find a radar gun years later. It's almost certainly because we really don't use those muscles for anything in day to day life so they just completely atrophy. I have similar stories, although I topped out a little lower in high school in the very low 80s.

 

The "good" news is that it comes back pretty quickly if you start consistently throwing again. Not nearly as fast, of course, but not embarrassingly slow. Just from being the BP thrower for my son's team for a couple of seasons I got some back and I'm obviously not even throwing hard at 10 and 11 year old kids. I maxed a gun out at 81 in high school, was only at 72 just 5 years later in the supposed physical prime of 22-23 years old, and was a humiliating low 60s thrower about a year ago at 40 years old. I've gotten some into the upper 60s recently so now I'm really cooking with gas. Ha.

 

Point is that I'm pretty sure throwing speed drops more quickly and further than any other single physical skill just because throwing is the only thing those muscles are worked hard to do. Legs walk, run, and carry your weight around all the time. Nothing we do in real life uses our throwing muscles.

 

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