Slovenia vs USA

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=sdduuuude]I hate to say it, but those photos of famous american athletes is pretty damn funny. Still, I continue to be open-jawed by brian’s and Iforget’s inability to play nice with others in a thread where we are just talking about sports.[/quote]

Dude: Just call Brian and IForget on their initial BS and then ignore the bloviating that follows.

I was wondering how MLB pitcher Terry Forster (remember Letterman’s “fat tub of goo” remark?) was left out of the photos.

Or Babe Ruth.

Or Charles Barkley. Turrible, just turrible.

[NotCranky]

[quote=sdduuuude]I hate to say it, but those photos of famous american athletes is pretty damn funny. Still, I continue to be open-jawed by brian’s and Iforget’s inability to play nice with others in a thread where we are just talking about sports.[/quote]
Funny or sad…I don’t know.A good portion of the guys of an average high school football team can not beat the average “non-athlete” from the same school in the decathlon. Many of the girls would beat them. I guess with the plumping up of America that might not be true today, but it was when I was a kid. Good thing they had separate PE classes for athletes because a lot of them would get smoked by average guys in a multi-sport PE class… The fastest miler and half miler also tends to under perform in other athletic endeavors, but they are elite for what they do relative to the school population. The miler is more looked at like a geek, simply because he is skinny and not fat enough to be on the football team. The fastest miler would probably beat a lot of his football playing classmates in the decathlon and the soccer players certainly would.

Disclaimer: I wasn’t that fastest miler or a lineman at my school.

[NotCranky]

[quote=sdduuuude]I hate to say it, but those photos of famous american athletes is pretty damn funny. Still, I continue to be open-jawed by brian’s and Iforget’s inability to play nice with others in a thread where we are just talking about sports.[/quote]
Funny or sad…I don’t know.A good portion of the guys of an average high school football team can not beat the average “non-athlete” from the same school in the decathlon. Many of the girls would beat them. I guess with the plumping up of America that might not be true today, but it was when I was a kid. Good thing they had separate PE classes for athletes because a lot of them would get smoked by average guys in a multi-sport PE class… The fastest miler and half miler also tends to under perform in other athletic endeavors, but they are elite for what they do relative to the school population. The miler is more looked at like a geek, simply because he is skinny and not fat enough to be on the football team. The fastest miler would probably beat a lot of his football playing classmates in the decathlon and the soccer players certainly would.

Disclaimer: I wasn’t that fastest miler or a lineman at my school.

[NotCranky]

[quote=sdduuuude]I hate to say it, but those photos of famous american athletes is pretty damn funny. Still, I continue to be open-jawed by brian’s and Iforget’s inability to play nice with others in a thread where we are just talking about sports.[/quote]
Funny or sad…I don’t know.A good portion of the guys of an average high school football team can not beat the average “non-athlete” from the same school in the decathlon. Many of the girls would beat them. I guess with the plumping up of America that might not be true today, but it was when I was a kid. Good thing they had separate PE classes for athletes because a lot of them would get smoked by average guys in a multi-sport PE class… The fastest miler and half miler also tends to under perform in other athletic endeavors, but they are elite for what they do relative to the school population. The miler is more looked at like a geek, simply because he is skinny and not fat enough to be on the football team. The fastest miler would probably beat a lot of his football playing classmates in the decathlon and the soccer players certainly would.

Disclaimer: I wasn’t that fastest miler or a lineman at my school.

[NotCranky]

[quote=sdduuuude]I hate to say it, but those photos of famous american athletes is pretty damn funny. Still, I continue to be open-jawed by brian’s and Iforget’s inability to play nice with others in a thread where we are just talking about sports.[/quote]
Funny or sad…I don’t know.A good portion of the guys of an average high school football team can not beat the average “non-athlete” from the same school in the decathlon. Many of the girls would beat them. I guess with the plumping up of America that might not be true today, but it was when I was a kid. Good thing they had separate PE classes for athletes because a lot of them would get smoked by average guys in a multi-sport PE class… The fastest miler and half miler also tends to under perform in other athletic endeavors, but they are elite for what they do relative to the school population. The miler is more looked at like a geek, simply because he is skinny and not fat enough to be on the football team. The fastest miler would probably beat a lot of his football playing classmates in the decathlon and the soccer players certainly would.

Disclaimer: I wasn’t that fastest miler or a lineman at my school.

[NotCranky]

[quote=sdduuuude]I hate to say it, but those photos of famous american athletes is pretty damn funny. Still, I continue to be open-jawed by brian’s and Iforget’s inability to play nice with others in a thread where we are just talking about sports.[/quote]
Funny or sad…I don’t know.A good portion of the guys of an average high school football team can not beat the average “non-athlete” from the same school in the decathlon. Many of the girls would beat them. I guess with the plumping up of America that might not be true today, but it was when I was a kid. Good thing they had separate PE classes for athletes because a lot of them would get smoked by average guys in a multi-sport PE class… The fastest miler and half miler also tends to under perform in other athletic endeavors, but they are elite for what they do relative to the school population. The miler is more looked at like a geek, simply because he is skinny and not fat enough to be on the football team. The fastest miler would probably beat a lot of his football playing classmates in the decathlon and the soccer players certainly would.

Disclaimer: I wasn’t that fastest miler or a lineman at my school.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=Russell]Funny or sad…I don’t know.A good portion of the guys of an average high school football team can not beat the average “non-athlete” from the same school in the decathlon. Many of the girls would beat them. I guess with the plumping up of America that might not be true today, but it was when I was a kid. Good thing they had separate PE classes for athletes because a lot of them would get smoked by average guys in a multi-sport PE class… The fastest miler and half miler also tends to under perform in other athletic endeavors, but they are elite for what they do relative to the school population. The miler is more looked at like a geek, simply because he is skinny and not fat enough to be on the football team. The fastest miler would probably beat a lot of his football playing classmates in the decathlon and the soccer players certainly would.

Disclaimer: I wasn’t that fastest miler or a lineman at my school.[/quote]

Russell: Nope, you’re right. A good portion of our offensive line was “excused” when we used to do stadium runs (up and down the stairs at our field), namely because they couldn’t hack it.

However, the linebackers, defensive backs and offensive skill position players all participated in other sports, including Track & Field, baseball and wrestling. I don’t know about your high school’s wrestling program, but ours was physically brutal, including a huge amount of “roadwork” (i.e. distance running) and weight lifting. I knew a lot of guys from the cross-country and swim teams because I ran and swam with them (I swam rather than ran whenever I could because it was less punishing on the knees).

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=Russell]Funny or sad…I don’t know.A good portion of the guys of an average high school football team can not beat the average “non-athlete” from the same school in the decathlon. Many of the girls would beat them. I guess with the plumping up of America that might not be true today, but it was when I was a kid. Good thing they had separate PE classes for athletes because a lot of them would get smoked by average guys in a multi-sport PE class… The fastest miler and half miler also tends to under perform in other athletic endeavors, but they are elite for what they do relative to the school population. The miler is more looked at like a geek, simply because he is skinny and not fat enough to be on the football team. The fastest miler would probably beat a lot of his football playing classmates in the decathlon and the soccer players certainly would.

Disclaimer: I wasn’t that fastest miler or a lineman at my school.[/quote]

Russell: Nope, you’re right. A good portion of our offensive line was “excused” when we used to do stadium runs (up and down the stairs at our field), namely because they couldn’t hack it.

However, the linebackers, defensive backs and offensive skill position players all participated in other sports, including Track & Field, baseball and wrestling. I don’t know about your high school’s wrestling program, but ours was physically brutal, including a huge amount of “roadwork” (i.e. distance running) and weight lifting. I knew a lot of guys from the cross-country and swim teams because I ran and swam with them (I swam rather than ran whenever I could because it was less punishing on the knees).

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=Russell]Funny or sad…I don’t know.A good portion of the guys of an average high school football team can not beat the average “non-athlete” from the same school in the decathlon. Many of the girls would beat them. I guess with the plumping up of America that might not be true today, but it was when I was a kid. Good thing they had separate PE classes for athletes because a lot of them would get smoked by average guys in a multi-sport PE class… The fastest miler and half miler also tends to under perform in other athletic endeavors, but they are elite for what they do relative to the school population. The miler is more looked at like a geek, simply because he is skinny and not fat enough to be on the football team. The fastest miler would probably beat a lot of his football playing classmates in the decathlon and the soccer players certainly would.

Disclaimer: I wasn’t that fastest miler or a lineman at my school.[/quote]

Russell: Nope, you’re right. A good portion of our offensive line was “excused” when we used to do stadium runs (up and down the stairs at our field), namely because they couldn’t hack it.

However, the linebackers, defensive backs and offensive skill position players all participated in other sports, including Track & Field, baseball and wrestling. I don’t know about your high school’s wrestling program, but ours was physically brutal, including a huge amount of “roadwork” (i.e. distance running) and weight lifting. I knew a lot of guys from the cross-country and swim teams because I ran and swam with them (I swam rather than ran whenever I could because it was less punishing on the knees).

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=Russell]Funny or sad…I don’t know.A good portion of the guys of an average high school football team can not beat the average “non-athlete” from the same school in the decathlon. Many of the girls would beat them. I guess with the plumping up of America that might not be true today, but it was when I was a kid. Good thing they had separate PE classes for athletes because a lot of them would get smoked by average guys in a multi-sport PE class… The fastest miler and half miler also tends to under perform in other athletic endeavors, but they are elite for what they do relative to the school population. The miler is more looked at like a geek, simply because he is skinny and not fat enough to be on the football team. The fastest miler would probably beat a lot of his football playing classmates in the decathlon and the soccer players certainly would.

Disclaimer: I wasn’t that fastest miler or a lineman at my school.[/quote]

Russell: Nope, you’re right. A good portion of our offensive line was “excused” when we used to do stadium runs (up and down the stairs at our field), namely because they couldn’t hack it.

However, the linebackers, defensive backs and offensive skill position players all participated in other sports, including Track & Field, baseball and wrestling. I don’t know about your high school’s wrestling program, but ours was physically brutal, including a huge amount of “roadwork” (i.e. distance running) and weight lifting. I knew a lot of guys from the cross-country and swim teams because I ran and swam with them (I swam rather than ran whenever I could because it was less punishing on the knees).

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=Russell]Funny or sad…I don’t know.A good portion of the guys of an average high school football team can not beat the average “non-athlete” from the same school in the decathlon. Many of the girls would beat them. I guess with the plumping up of America that might not be true today, but it was when I was a kid. Good thing they had separate PE classes for athletes because a lot of them would get smoked by average guys in a multi-sport PE class… The fastest miler and half miler also tends to under perform in other athletic endeavors, but they are elite for what they do relative to the school population. The miler is more looked at like a geek, simply because he is skinny and not fat enough to be on the football team. The fastest miler would probably beat a lot of his football playing classmates in the decathlon and the soccer players certainly would.

Disclaimer: I wasn’t that fastest miler or a lineman at my school.[/quote]

Russell: Nope, you’re right. A good portion of our offensive line was “excused” when we used to do stadium runs (up and down the stairs at our field), namely because they couldn’t hack it.

However, the linebackers, defensive backs and offensive skill position players all participated in other sports, including Track & Field, baseball and wrestling. I don’t know about your high school’s wrestling program, but ours was physically brutal, including a huge amount of “roadwork” (i.e. distance running) and weight lifting. I knew a lot of guys from the cross-country and swim teams because I ran and swam with them (I swam rather than ran whenever I could because it was less punishing on the knees).

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=Russell]The miler is more looked at like a geek, simply because he is skinny and not fat enough to be on the football team. The fastest miler would probably beat a lot of his football playing classmates in the decathlon and the soccer players certainly would.

[/quote]

Russell: Also, that was probably true when you were in HS, or I was in HS, but not anymore. The “plumping” you refer to isn’t evident at the youth football level (where kids have to conform to weight limits) and the off-season workout programs are extremely demanding. My son, who is an offensive and defensive lineman, participates in the Prodigy program, which stresses not only wind endurance, but footwork, agility and “burst” speed. Football has grown ever faster and more complex and the kids playing it successfully now are specimens.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=Russell]The miler is more looked at like a geek, simply because he is skinny and not fat enough to be on the football team. The fastest miler would probably beat a lot of his football playing classmates in the decathlon and the soccer players certainly would.

[/quote]

Russell: Also, that was probably true when you were in HS, or I was in HS, but not anymore. The “plumping” you refer to isn’t evident at the youth football level (where kids have to conform to weight limits) and the off-season workout programs are extremely demanding. My son, who is an offensive and defensive lineman, participates in the Prodigy program, which stresses not only wind endurance, but footwork, agility and “burst” speed. Football has grown ever faster and more complex and the kids playing it successfully now are specimens.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=Russell]The miler is more looked at like a geek, simply because he is skinny and not fat enough to be on the football team. The fastest miler would probably beat a lot of his football playing classmates in the decathlon and the soccer players certainly would.

[/quote]

Russell: Also, that was probably true when you were in HS, or I was in HS, but not anymore. The “plumping” you refer to isn’t evident at the youth football level (where kids have to conform to weight limits) and the off-season workout programs are extremely demanding. My son, who is an offensive and defensive lineman, participates in the Prodigy program, which stresses not only wind endurance, but footwork, agility and “burst” speed. Football has grown ever faster and more complex and the kids playing it successfully now are specimens.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=Russell]The miler is more looked at like a geek, simply because he is skinny and not fat enough to be on the football team. The fastest miler would probably beat a lot of his football playing classmates in the decathlon and the soccer players certainly would.

[/quote]

Russell: Also, that was probably true when you were in HS, or I was in HS, but not anymore. The “plumping” you refer to isn’t evident at the youth football level (where kids have to conform to weight limits) and the off-season workout programs are extremely demanding. My son, who is an offensive and defensive lineman, participates in the Prodigy program, which stresses not only wind endurance, but footwork, agility and “burst” speed. Football has grown ever faster and more complex and the kids playing it successfully now are specimens.

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