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<blockquote data-quote="Thirteen Below" data-source="post: 1061273" data-attributes="member: 18006"><p>It really amazes me to see how often your history paralells my own; I did the exact same thing. We lived 8 miles from town, on the end of a mile long dirt road, not a single other house on that road. The nearest neighbors in all 4 directions were a mile or more away.</p><p></p><p>I was an only child, we only got 3 channels on the TV, and there was no internet of course. My parents both worked, and I had a <em>lot </em>of time to kill in the summertime!</p><p></p><p>My dad bought me 4 footballs, and a half dozen baseballs. I spent a lot of time reading, of course, and exploring the 4 square miles of woods with my dog, but it was pretty rare for me to spend less than 2 or 3 hours punting footballs and hitting baseballs in the pasture.</p><p></p><p>I got awfully good at both, and I was a big kid - 6'4", strong.... I could boom the football and hit the baseball from here to forever. I sometimes wish that I'd taken punting seriously to at least position myself for a shot at the NFL in around 1980, when salaries were starting to climb more rapidly. If I'd made a team, it would have been a fun thing to do for my 20s.</p><p></p><p>A baseball career was never an option; just hitting and throwing by yourself in a pasture doesn't really develop any of the tools, even hitting and hitting for power, because it's all different against live pitching. And I was weak as a fielder; always had trouble judging fly balls. Grounders, or even line drives straight at me, I'd have no trouble with, I couldn'ty track a baseball in the air.</p><p></p><p>But the football? I could kick the hell out of that. I wore the noses out of a lot of footballs, because that's the part that hits the ground if your kicks are spiral.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So this would have been the late 60s, I guess. You were 15 years too early, unfortunately.</p><p></p><p>I'm curious; how did you get the invite? What was the connection; how did they find you?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thirteen Below, post: 1061273, member: 18006"] It really amazes me to see how often your history paralells my own; I did the exact same thing. We lived 8 miles from town, on the end of a mile long dirt road, not a single other house on that road. The nearest neighbors in all 4 directions were a mile or more away. I was an only child, we only got 3 channels on the TV, and there was no internet of course. My parents both worked, and I had a [I]lot [/I]of time to kill in the summertime! My dad bought me 4 footballs, and a half dozen baseballs. I spent a lot of time reading, of course, and exploring the 4 square miles of woods with my dog, but it was pretty rare for me to spend less than 2 or 3 hours punting footballs and hitting baseballs in the pasture. I got awfully good at both, and I was a big kid - 6'4", strong.... I could boom the football and hit the baseball from here to forever. I sometimes wish that I'd taken punting seriously to at least position myself for a shot at the NFL in around 1980, when salaries were starting to climb more rapidly. If I'd made a team, it would have been a fun thing to do for my 20s. A baseball career was never an option; just hitting and throwing by yourself in a pasture doesn't really develop any of the tools, even hitting and hitting for power, because it's all different against live pitching. And I was weak as a fielder; always had trouble judging fly balls. Grounders, or even line drives straight at me, I'd have no trouble with, I couldn'ty track a baseball in the air. But the football? I could kick the hell out of that. I wore the noses out of a lot of footballs, because that's the part that hits the ground if your kicks are spiral. So this would have been the late 60s, I guess. You were 15 years too early, unfortunately. I'm curious; how did you get the invite? What was the connection; how did they find you? [/QUOTE]
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