Any Family Members Ever Play College or Pro Sports?

[Vic Mackey 46,939]

I created in the football board but it can expand to any sport.

Did anyone in your family ever play college or pro sports? For me:

Football - LB Bill Svoboda (Chicago Cardinals/ NY Giants) 1950-1958 - He played in the "Greatest Game Ever Played" for the Giants. He was my grandpa's cousin.

Baseball - LF Scott Podsednik - He played for a lot of teams but known for the White Sox. He hit the game winning HR in the 2005 World Series in game 1 or 2. He is my cousin.

[South Austin 52,170]

My dad was a pitcher for the Oregon State Beavers in 1962-66. Drew the interest of a few MLB teams, but instead he joined the Marines out of college because he knew he was getting drafted.  Served 27 years in the Corps.

[Steel Shank 9,416]

Had an aunt play basketball at Wayland Baptist I think back in the 60s.

[Whatever 700]

Hank Autry married one of my aunts. He's the father of my cousin. Played Center for So. Miss and for the Oilers. He played for them in both the AFL & NFL.

[DejaVu 39]

I had a cousin who got an NFL tryout with the Dolphins when I was a kid. I don’t remember a lot of the details, but my grandpa bought a bunch of Dolphins shit instantly, and relatives laughed about it for years. 

[Richard Kimball 1,492]

Had a cousin that got a tryout with the Cincinnati Reds straight out of high school. They got him a JUCO scholarship and were going to sign him the next year. He knocked a girl up, got married, got divorced, lives in a trailer house now. 

[Onboard 2.0 9,083]

Grandfather was a golden gloves boxer, kicked 3 guys asses single handedly at a bar when he was in his late 50's.  Grand dad liked to drunk, (yes drunk).

Younger brother, NC state wrestling.  Then he moved to Vegas where he he continued his career in Ju jitsu and trained all the MMA guys the art of Ju Jitzu.  Now he owns his own his own Jujitzu studio.

[BurntOrange 6]

Dad was a tennis player for Texas ‘61-63.  In fact, the University kept film on him for years to show younger players specific techniques.  His roommate was David McWilliams during some of that time.

[Parliament 14,149]

Had an aunt play basketball at Wayland Baptist I think back in the 60s.

Rules

[Slacks 6,792]

Dad played LB at Indiana State

Uncle played WR at Indiana State and was a UDA for the San Diego Chargers (but got cut after one preseason game)

FIL played TE at Gambling.

A Cousin played CB at Indiana State.

A Cousin is a CB right now at Earlham College.

A Cousin was a SG at Ranger College (basketball).

I was a walk-on WR one spring/summer at the University of the First Class, but I had to quit in the summer so I could work to pay rent. I also was on the Lady Longhorns hasketball practice squad one season. (yes, really)

[deadshank 24,651]

My grandpa played on the SMU football team.  They won the natty in ‘35.  The team went to NYC to play Fordham and their Seven Blocks of Granite at the Polo Grounds.  

One of the “7” was Vince Lombardi.  Lombardi lines up across from my grandpa and grandp claims to have worn Vince out all day long.  SMU won 26-14. 

[Hank Chinaski 6,310]

My mom had a cousin named Norm Bulaich, who was a RB for TCU and then the Baltimore Colts. I remember him showing me his super bowl ring when I was a kid, which seemed like about the coolest thing I had seen at that point. He made the SI cover once.

Edited November 22, 2018 by Hank Chinaski

[Leanderman 2,271]

 

Your mom was a pro, but she pro but she never charged me a dime.

[EZ$ 2,102]

Played D-III baseball for 2 years. Hit .400 as a sophomore, transferred to a bigger school and never played again. Bad hamstrings limited me and do to this day...even in beer league softball. 

[msucolt45 4,022]

My Dad played football for the Longhorns from 60-63. He never started a game on offense or defense during his time there, but “helped” them get better during practice. Yes, we’re talking about practice!

Actually made it in the picture of players surrounding Coach Royal, on the SI two page spread, after the Horns won it all in ‘05. (They we waiting on the results of the coin toss - he played special teams.

[Butch Had Not 2,940]

My dad was an all american track and cross country runner at UTEP. Finished third behind steve prefontaine and jerry lindgren in cross country nationals one year. Cross country team won national championship one of his years. 

 

[Underdog 28,460]

36 minutes ago, Hank Chinaski said:

My mom had a cousin named Norm Bulaich, who was a RB for TCU and then the Baltimore Colts. I remember him showing me his super bowl ring when I was a kid, which seemed like about the coolest thing I had seen at that point. He made the SI cover once.

The Human Cannonball? 

 

<——  End,  Guard and Tackle on my Pop Warner Team.  

 

Edited November 22, 2018 by Underdog

[1978horn 890]

Wife(no pics) swam for the Horns and placed 8th at the Olympic trials. Her siblings all swam for UNC and her sister(no pics) placed 5th at the Olympic trials.

[FloridaHorn 4,735]

I played NAIA football. My son wrestled on the club team at FGCU and My daughter plays Division 1 softball at Murray State in Kentucky.

[ClubWhatever 12,087]

No, but my dad was a piano mover, so...

[Magus Ossis 2,784]

Uncle played for cougar high on the last D1 team to hang 100 in a game. Is tight with Wade Phillips.

[Trey3216 15,325]

1 hour ago, Snacks said:

Dad played LB at Indiana State

Uncle played WR at Indiana State and was a UDA for the San Diego Chargers (but got cut after one preseason game)

FIL played TE at Gambling.

A Cousin played CB at Indiana State.

A Cousin is a CB right now at Earlham College.

A Cousin was a SG at Ranger College (basketball).

I was a walk-on WR one spring/summer at the University of the First Class, but I had to quit in the summer so I could work to pay rent. I also was on the Lady Longhorns hasketball practice squad one season. (yes, really)

You mean cousin WAS a CB on Earlham, rt?

[JonBinge 3]

Played LB at an NAIA school. Had a private workout for the Cleveland Browns. Didn’t have what it took. Fought MMA professionally for a couple years as well. 

[Trey3216 15,325]

One Uncle was a SP for UNT back in the early 80’s.  Had multiple tryouts w/ the Rangers but don’t make it. 

 

I was a preferred walk-on (mostly because I was the best deep snapper in the North TX area) in FB but had blown out my ACL and failed my physical.  

 

BiL pitch for Coug, was drafted, and made it to AAA before multiple shoulder surgeries forced him to hang it up.   

A few cousins and other Uncles that played a year or two at JUCO and what not  

 

[TexasRenegade 2,391]

Cousin- Cody Carlson-  QB for Baylor and the Oilers.

[Judge Roybeanbag 11,810]

One grandpa was on the Notre Dame practice squad in the 20s under Knute Rockne.   Have some pretty cool pictures.  

[ztejas 43,287]

9 minutes ago, TexasRenegade said:

Cousin- Cody Carlson-  QB for Baylor and the Oilers.

Hah. Cody is a super nice guy. One of his kids was a couple years behind me at Austin High. 

[jimmyjazz 45,605]

My cousin's son played soccer for UNC, and his sister played for NCSU.  Their dad was a linebacker at NCSU.

Another cousin wrestled for about a week at Penn State but realized he was out of his league and decided to focus on school (PhD Aerospace Engineering).  Good choice-- he's a big muckity muck (Senior Engineering Fellow) at Lockheed Martin.

[Sbbruin 21,782]

I’m a master debater and cunning linguist.

[RexWilson 1,341]

I was the punter for the Austin Wranglers.

[garrett01 48]

My FIL played WR at William/Mary for Lou Holtz.

He said Lou was a major asshole.

[zlavydra 2,116]

6 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:

I created in the football board but it can expand to any sport.

Did anyone in your family ever play college or pro sports? For me:

Football - LB Bill Svoboda (Chicago Cardinals/ NY Giants) 1950-1958 - He played in the "Greatest Game Ever Played" for the Giants. He was my grandpa's cousin.

Baseball - LF Scott Podsednik - He played for a lot of teams but known for the White Sox. He hit the game winning HR in the 2005 World Series in game 1 or 2. He is my cousin.

Czechs out.

[HoustonFrog 368]

Grandpa played FB/RB at Wisconsin before leaving for WWII

Short list.


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[Helobious 9,490]

Just 2 in my entire family. Had one cousin play soccer at Concordia, another cousin played baseball at UH-Victoria. Guess our ethnicity. 

[Whitman 694]

1 hour ago, 1978horn said:

Wife(no pics) swam for the Horns......

Didn't she used to post here and at the old site?

[DanRydell 799]

My cousin is currently being recruited to play OL. Hasn’t decided where he’s going but visited SMU, Tulsa, and Southern Miss this fall.

His dad pitched at Baylor in the early 90’s.

His dad (my uncle) was recruited to play football at West Point but had to stay local and play at Howard Payne because he got his girlfriend pregnant and married her.

[Revolution512 1,480]

I played D1 golf. 

I have a cousin playing softball. She started for Lamar last year

[Sgt Hulk 13,648]

I played D2 football. 

Dad a few uncles where college level wrestlers and state record holders 

Aunt ran track d1 and had Olympic tryout 

2 grandparent cousins played in the nfl 

[1978horn 890]

Didn't she used to post here and at the old site?

Haha, that would be a hard no...on multiple angles

[Quagmire 2,146]

I was pretty good at paper football

[formermav43 4,599]

My brother played at Tarleton one year. Then they had a coaching change, the guy who recruited him left, new guys didn’t know what to do with him (he was a really good, but undersized, Center). So he quit after the spring.

[RDCanecutter 26,341]

My grandad played multiple sports at his high school, was QB of the football team at Selma High, Alabama.

A scout came down from Tuscaloosa headed to a little town south of Selma to offer a scholarship to a big hulking Canecutter, probably a cousin but not my grandaddy. In Selma people told him "Oh no, the football Canecutter lives here in Selma", meaning my athletic but medium-sized grandaddy.

So anyway, grandaddy got a scholarship to Alabama (by accident) for a little while during the Wallace Wade era. Like the line in the song, his friends all loved, to listen to him, when he talked about that year.

I went to the museum in Tuscaloosa and couldn't find a trace of him. He would have been on the JV squad which was more like a battalion in those days, hundreds of young guys. Whether it was academics, or a knee getting bent backwards, or Alabama realizing they gave a schollie to the wrong guy, grandaddy left soon after he got there and somehow fetched up in Miami painting signs.

So they say.

[JerryHubbard 282]

I pitched for 2 yrs at a SWC school before I realized I could never make a living at it (same time as Clemens, Schiraldi, Capel at UT), and my son played basketball at TCU in Mountain West days.

[Vic Mackey 46,939]

Czechs out.

Haha yep. I'm 75% Czech.

[markstanco 12,528]

Wife(no pics) swam for the Horns and placed 8th at the Olympic trials. Her siblings all swam for UNC and her sister(no pics) placed 5th at the Olympic trials.

There are absolutely pics

[CoTex 1,160]

I raced in a sailing regatta in San Diego and in a five race regatta our three man squad finished ahead of America’s Cup loser and winner, Dennis Conner. (1st v. 5th).

Im kind of a big deal.

[CBT 1,281]

Great uncle was a two time All-American basketball player and made a few ABA all star teams.

[Slacks 6,792]

You mean cousin WAS a CB on Earlham, rt?

I was waiting for someone to pick up on that.

Trey wins.

[GRHorn 105]

One cousin played DT at SWT.  Had a couple NFL tryouts.  A second cousin is currently on Notre Dame roster. 

[Agent47 157]

My grandfather played OL at Penn State .