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OK Dawgnation - what is your #1 moment as an athlete.

texdawgtexdawg Posts: 11,574 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

Let's go Dawgnation. Brag on yourself a little. Share your best memory either as a player or the best memory of a team you played on.


I was pitching in the first inning of a 6th grade baseball game. I was a really good youth baseball pitcher but I was having a horrible day. I walked in 4 runs - not a single strike was thrown. 7 straight hitters and not a single strike.

Coach finally removed me from the game and I sat in the dugout crying and embarrassed.

Bottom half of the 1st inning, we are down by 6 runs. I'm batting 4th and I come up with the bases loaded. Yep...... you guessed it. Grand slam straight over the center field fence. My very first over the fence home run.

That was over 40 years ago and I can remember everything about it.

Let's go. Start sharing.

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  • CatfishCatfish Posts: 1,703 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited February 2019

    Playing DE in high school, picked up a s trip/sack and ran it about 40 yds for a touchdown.

  • Acrum21Acrum21 Posts: 2,439 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    I think my #1 would be a game I pitched in at the University of Tennessee when I was 16. The night before, my coach asked me if I would be able to go all 7 and I told him kind of jokingly it wouldn't be a problem. The next day, through 6 innings, I was no-hitting the best 16U team in the state and one of the top 15-20 in the nation. We were wining 3-0 and he tried pulling me after 6 and I told him zero chance he was taking me out. I was due to face the 3,4&5 hitters to finish it out. I got the lead off guy to a FULL COUNT after fouling off like 4-5 pitches in a row and he hits a freaking 400ft bomb off the dam scoreboard. I get a pop up, strikeout and ground ball to finish a one hit, one run complete game. Nicest mound I ever threw off of. I also forgot my grey pants for this particular trip so I had to borrow another players and they were SUPER tight. I think between feeling uncomfortable in those pants and pitching at an SEC school brought out the best in me. I tore my UCL a month after that.

  • ThisDawgThisDawg Posts: 970 ✭✭✭✭ Senior

    I dont remember where it is but my dad wrote down my stats (224 yds rushing 2tds 2 extra points made like 15 tackles and 1 sack and 1 blocked field goal) on one of those mini footballs the cheerleaders throw out. By far my favorite was busting threw the line for the blocked extra point. Went straight through A gap. Favorite play had to be kickoff. Never knew if I was going to get laid out or if I would lay somebody else out. Hint I never went for the tackle just wedge buster.

  • texdawgtexdawg Posts: 11,574 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @Acrum21, as a 14u select baseball coach I can appreciate how awesome that game was for you. That's very special

  • JayDogJayDog Posts: 5,558 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    My HS soccer team had traveled to play in Jonesboro. The field was full of holes big enough to crawl into during an artillery barrage. The game was tied until the end of the second half when I scored the game winning goal. Unfortunately it was for the other team. Good times.

    Seriously, the biggest moment was probably starting in the playoffs as a sophomore.

  • texdawgtexdawg Posts: 11,574 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    That's awesome. Some of the greatest moments as a coach is when a non starter is actually the star of the game.

    Although the worst is when the bench player is the star of the game - then you realize he is a senior and you probably just screwed up as a talent evaluator and the kid doesn't have any eligibility left.

  • texdawgtexdawg Posts: 11,574 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Wow. If that is your best moment then I would hate to know what your worst moment is.

  • RetiredRedcoatRetiredRedcoat Posts: 754 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited February 2019

    I also caught one pop fly playing rec-league baseball, 13/10 moment

  • kelly_bkelly_b Posts: 1,464 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Jeez @Bankwalker made coffee come through my nose.

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