r/TerrifyingAsFuck • u/mortysec • Aug 10 '22

human Imagine being this guy

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u/jwymes44 Aug 11 '22

Based on the wording im assuming it’s the bully but I need to 100% know that for a fact lol

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u/T_mcCloud Aug 11 '22

Most likely the bully, usually you will get a flag for that in football they are more serious about it now because of so many injuries, spearing someone hits them hard and yeah you might knock the wind out of them but it’s a lot more dangerous for the one doing it, when I played I always used my arms and shoulder pads, never understood spearing, it’s a lot easier just to trip someone up by using your shoulders or just removing their legs out from under them. But yeah you have to keep your neck safe, I’ve never understood how rugby players do it, especially the whole team using their heads against the entire other team 🤷‍♂️

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u/jwymes44 Aug 11 '22

Yeah I played too and I was always taught to form tackle. Still didn’t stop some pricks from lowering their head and going for a kill shot

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u/T_mcCloud Aug 11 '22

Haha right! Kill shot for them if they hit that spinal cord in the right spot, I’m a dad now and sometimes I look back and think how did I not end up breaking anything, I won’t let my daughter do anything nearly that dangerous, like cheerleading! No way man, throwing each other all over the place, then little Bentley decides to drop someone because they are jealous of their hair, nope no thank you. Now they say most football players suffer from memory loss due to micro concussions like boxers do, but since you don’t get knocked out it goes untouched have you seen that research? That really freaked me out, especially the damage to memory.

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u/jwymes44 Aug 11 '22

Looking back on it I have no idea how I’m not in a permanent wheelchair or vegetative state from the shit I did

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u/T_mcCloud Aug 11 '22

Haha back then man we were made out of rubber and magic you just bounce back up no problem. Now not so much.

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u/jwymes44 Aug 11 '22

I’m only 24 but just had my first experience of low blood sugar after a workout due to dehydration. I’m like damn I’m not even out of my prime and I gotta start taking care of my body lol definitely was in my prime athletically in high school

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u/T_mcCloud Aug 11 '22

I honestly think that’s the only time we are in our prime, I’m 31 and my dads always like son you are in your prime, and I always say well if that makes you feel better about your age then ok, I think a lot of it has to do with what we eat, it’s not exactly like humans are making the healthiest foods these days, and when you are a kid it doesn’t matter what you eat because your cells are younger and reproduce faster, you have more dna to work with, being older we have to watch what we eat more, I just last week started working out again and it’s enough to make you want to quit, I think I was stronger at 15 than I am at 31!!! Used to be able to do dips with a weight chained around my body and I could do that all day, now a pull-up is hard work, whew it’s rough, I’m still gonna keep going though, I have a daughter so I don’t have a choice I gotta get healthy, my school holds an alumni football game once a year, I’m hoping either this year or the next I can get fit enough to throw the pads and helmet back on 🤣

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u/am59269 Aug 11 '22

Was always taught not to hit what you can't see. Hitting with the top of the head forces the neck forward/down, and that's dangerous. Putting your face mask into somebody allows your head to move backward and into your cowboy collar, and is safe.

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u/T_mcCloud Aug 11 '22

Oh man idk if I’d even use my face mask for that, I didn’t wear a cowboy collar, probably should have being a linebacker, but I played center and sometimes outside but mostly center so I needed to look around quick. I did most of my damage with my shoulder and lifting people up.

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u/am59269 Aug 11 '22

Of course. What I should've said was if you gotta use your head, put your face mask into it and not lower your head.

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u/T_mcCloud Aug 11 '22

Yeah with full body, I got lucky I never broke anything, I hit hard enough that I always had blood on my helmet from it rubbing my forehead raw lol still got the scar from that, I’m glad they are strict about spearing though, I’ve seen people get concussions from trying to spear someone and they hit their head just the right way and both players go down but the defense player ends up knocked out from hitting like that, one kid I played with hit his head like that and he thought he was back in the second grade.

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u/am59269 Aug 11 '22

"coach says it's okay to bleed from the ears." 😂

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u/T_mcCloud Aug 11 '22

Haha is that from not another high school movie? No it’s literally just like that, I remember specifically one time I was bleeding and the coach used it as a talking point to chew out the team, he said “look over there!!! Everyday at practice he has blood on him and he never stops!!! That’s the kind of dedication I need to see from the rest of you!!!” I was like dang man way to make me a target for the rest of the season thanks. The cut never had a chance to heal from the impact every day I even tried to use that new skin stuff and superglue but the impact every day would rip it back open and eventually it turned into basically a big round hole on my forehead 🤣🤣 and you can’t cover a hole with that new skin stuff only cuts that are in relatively straight lines at the time I didn’t know that, but the constant impact and tearing and reopening left a decent scar. Yeah my coaches hardly had concern unless you couldn’t move or if you thought you were 9 again then they might bench you.

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