Childhood Sports
Here at the b5media sports channel, we were asked to post a memory about sports from our childhood. I think I missed the post timeline, but I figured I should still go ahead and jump on board. I never was that athletic of a kid. I was too engrossed in reading and making crap up that I never really focused enough to get good at any sport. (That and I’m more than a little uncoordinated, my arms are too long).
Add to that the fact that I weighed 260 lbs in 9th grade, and a comparatively large ratio for grades beneath down to about 5th, and you have a fairly untalented sports student. (I weigh 80 lbs less now than I did in 9th grade, weird).
I was obsessed with college basketball though. Kentucky was my team. I used to make huge NCAA tournament brackets and hang them on my wall and track each game and notate it. I was weird maybe. I cried at the big Duke buzzer beater over UK in the championship whatever year that was.
I remember scoring two baskets the whole season the last time I played in a youth league. Of course, my coach only put me in the bare minimum he had to since I was paying to play, but I just sucked.
Didn’t stop me from wearing purple and green neon umbros to school. Huge pit stains in my Michael Jordan shirts and Larry Johnson. One year in my gym class a kid told me I shouldn’t be wearing an MJ shirt and if I were in ‘the hood’ I would get jumped for it.
So, yeah, I’ve always been on the edge of sports at best. Which is why I guess I’m a poker blogger here. Poker the lazy man’s sport.
Interesting. Basketball was one of the main stream sports that I didn’t play in High School. I always found basketball boring and I’m rather inept at it anyways.
I played football, wrestling and track n field.
I didn’t do much with the track and field. It was too boring. Football and wrestling I liked. I would and would not say that I am competitive.
I could care less about winning when I play games usually. Or I guess I should say that I don’t mind losing. But I play to win not to win but to see my oponent(s) breakdown and get upset. That is why I play games/sports. To put people in monkey rage tilt mode so I can laugh at how absurd they are acting over losing.
Kind of weird, i know.
Very interesting post!
I think as children at school practice lot of sports when they grow up they should continue doing exercises. That is healthy.
Many thanks.
haha, jereme, i like that mindset for some reason.
Haha, I know it is kind of weird that I derive my pleasure from watching people get upset and emotional over something as meaningless as a game but I do.
If I were able to play against Phil Ivey or Phil Helmuth, I would always pick Helmuth every time.
I know I can put him on full blown race care red tilt and derive enjoyment from it.
Ivey on the other hand rarely shows any emotion and that doesn’t sound fun to me.
Although I did see him show some anger when he lost at the NBC heads-up championship to Ferguson. He looked genuinely pissed off after losing hand after hand to him.